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Dell pc memory is down to 4% and i can't get it to
defrag. It defrags from 2% to 4% and says it's done w/
defrag. used disk cleanup and it says all is clean. Scan
says no virus found. help please
 
Bill said:
Dell pc memory is down to 4% and i can't get it to
defrag. It defrags from 2% to 4% and says it's done w/
defrag. used disk cleanup and it says all is clean. Scan
says no virus found. help please
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That's not memory. That's hard drive space.

It was likely taken up by an error log file. You will have to find the
directory with it, all I can remember is that it is in the WINDOWS folder.
Simply highlight all the sub-folders in Windows and right-click, select
properties. My bet is that group is taking up most of your space.

Now, do a binary elimination or a one by one right-click/properties on each
folder until you find out which is the larget of them.

Once found, go into that folder. If it contains a lot of ERROR logs, delete
them!
 
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That's not memory. That's hard drive space.

It was likely taken up by an error log file. You will have to find the
directory with it, all I can remember is that it is in the WINDOWS folder.
Simply highlight all the sub-folders in Windows and right- click, select
properties. My bet is that group is taking up most of your space.

Now, do a binary elimination or a one by one right- click/properties on each
folder until you find out which is the larget of them.

Once found, go into that folder. If it contains a lot of ERROR logs, delete
them!
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