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Okay I nave a computer related question
I'm getting the notice I'm running out of disk space on drive C. I tried to move some folders of stuff from my C Drive to an external drive. That should have given me at least two or three GB free space and cleared that notice.
Why is that not happening? I moved the folders but I see no change in my disk space on drive C. In fact the space is getting smaller. I guess something else must be taking up that space? What would that be? I have photoshop set to use my external drive as it's scratch disk. It shouldn't be taking up my C drive.
Why is that not happening? I moved the folders but I see no change in my disk space on drive C. In fact the space is getting smaller. I guess something else must be taking up that space? What would that be? I have photoshop set to use my external drive as it's scratch disk. It shouldn't be taking up my C drive.
the temporary files take up space... also any old recovery points can be deleted as well if you have a recent one to keep. In fact, download ERUNT and use that for recovery as it take a full picture of your registry and not just the system files. Then you can turn off the recovery through windows and that will save you some space as well.
If you don't use some of the programs installed automatically with your operating system, then you can uninstall them. When you go to clean up your HD, uncheck the programs you don't use, like messenger, MSN, etc.
WinXP usually takes up about 14GB right now if it's down to bare bones, it could be less. I have tons of extra programs on my computer and it's only at 23GB. If you have tons of music, photos', or videos on your HD, move them to an external drive and don't put them on your C drive. Same for games and other accessory programs that don't require a C drive location. Most programs will manage just fine working them off of an external drive.
This will also help keep your HD healthy since it doesn't have to run as much searching for things. Oh and turn off the newer windows search. Use the old one as the new one stores info to make the search faster, ha ha... but uses up resources and space.
Hope this helps!
If you don't use some of the programs installed automatically with your operating system, then you can uninstall them. When you go to clean up your HD, uncheck the programs you don't use, like messenger, MSN, etc.
WinXP usually takes up about 14GB right now if it's down to bare bones, it could be less. I have tons of extra programs on my computer and it's only at 23GB. If you have tons of music, photos', or videos on your HD, move them to an external drive and don't put them on your C drive. Same for games and other accessory programs that don't require a C drive location. Most programs will manage just fine working them off of an external drive.
This will also help keep your HD healthy since it doesn't have to run as much searching for things. Oh and turn off the newer windows search. Use the old one as the new one stores info to make the search faster, ha ha... but uses up resources and space.
Hope this helps!
Great! Make sure you backed registry up. Glad cleaning it up helped.
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Update: I ran system suite
Temporary Cleaner Results:
Run: 10/2/2009 2:31:31 AM 9 (yes I rather pick non peak times to run these things.)
Categories checked:
Empty Recycle Bin
Empty Web Cache
Empty Web History
Delete Lost Cluster files with extension .CHK
Delete temporary Help files with extension .GID
Delete broken shortcut files with extension .LNK
Delete backup files with extension .BAK
Delete out-of-date files with extension .OLD
Empty folders with the name TMP or TEMP
Empty Deleted Files Bin
Results Summary:
Temporary Cleaner has deleted 210 files.
The files have been permanently deleted.
The total amount of space recovered is 287937KB
Essentially I started with about 0% - 17% of my hard drive free wavering between 0mb - 17mb. Now I've got 49 GB free and using up about a 3rd of that space.
Impressive. I still don't know exactly what got deleted but I would think it was a huge back-up file that must have been hogging my space and a bunch of temporary files.
Temporary Cleaner Results:
Run: 10/2/2009 2:31:31 AM 9 (yes I rather pick non peak times to run these things.)
Categories checked:
Empty Recycle Bin
Empty Web Cache
Empty Web History
Delete Lost Cluster files with extension .CHK
Delete temporary Help files with extension .GID
Delete broken shortcut files with extension .LNK
Delete backup files with extension .BAK
Delete out-of-date files with extension .OLD
Empty folders with the name TMP or TEMP
Empty Deleted Files Bin
Results Summary:
Temporary Cleaner has deleted 210 files.
The files have been permanently deleted.
The total amount of space recovered is 287937KB
Essentially I started with about 0% - 17% of my hard drive free wavering between 0mb - 17mb. Now I've got 49 GB free and using up about a 3rd of that space.
Impressive. I still don't know exactly what got deleted but I would think it was a huge back-up file that must have been hogging my space and a bunch of temporary files.
Tsk, tsk, tsk.....you can still run the computer I sent you & keep up all the updates till you get the software you want to install on it...at least for surfing, etc. you would be safe.
There is a feature to cleanup & optimize. Did you fragment the master file table (mft) & paging files, run file clean, empty recycle bin, check to see if there are temporary files not needed, etc.
If I were there, I would comb through to check what is cluttering it....
Hugs,
:-)
There is a feature to cleanup & optimize. Did you fragment the master file table (mft) & paging files, run file clean, empty recycle bin, check to see if there are temporary files not needed, etc.
If I were there, I would comb through to check what is cluttering it....
Hugs,
:-)
If I were you, I would download AVG free edition located at http://free.avg.com/ and run a full system scan on your computer. As your computer may have just picked up something after the anti-virus stopped working. I hope it helps. :) If not, please leave me know and I'll try to help you out better.
Technically no. The computer that has a new antivirus program that I can update does not have the software I need to use it. (lacks photoshop). So, I've been running this computer months past the expiration date on my antivirus program The thing was, it never found anything wrong when I had the antivirus working.
May I ask, do you have a good up-to-date anti-virus/anti-malware program running on your computer? If your C Drive seems to be filling up for no reason, even when moving files, you might have a computer worm that is replicating itself over and over trying to fill up your drive.
Either that, or you might have a lot of file fragmentation on your computer.
Either that, or you might have a lot of file fragmentation on your computer.
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