Harddrive problem

Sephiroth_dude · 10-08-2010 10:17pm #1

Hi
Last week I had 53.5gigs of free space on my hard drive,this went down to 40.5 today when I checked just now its 38.5,I have'nt installed anything heavy since starcraft 2 two weeks ago now and I defragged my drive the night before that,its seems to doing this alot lately,is it time to defrag again?

wolfric · 10-08-2010 11:44pm

Your game could be downloading updates
Other such applications can be updating but that would account for a small proportion of size.
Clear your recycle bin. Clean out download folders (ie one from browser).
Clear your cache from your browser
clear temporary files

Uninstall old programs you don't need.

Really when it comes down to it, is this an issue? There's nothing wrong with space being used and no defragging won't do much use if you've already done it recently. Unless you're really running out of space i wouldn't worry too much.

If it really bothers you try googling a for a program to monitor the space or just go around and do it yourself manually. Take a note of program files and documents and settings (or users folder if you're vista/win7) and see how they change.

johndoe99 · 10-08-2010 11:52pm

if your losing roughly 2gb a day you could have a nasty piece of spyware thats downloading data and filling your HD, download Spybot:

http://download.cnet.com/Spybot-Search-amp-Destroy/3000-8022_4-10122137.html

and give your PC a scan.

antocann · 10-08-2010 11:55pm

dload ccleaner that will sort you out

RolandIRL · 11-08-2010 12:21am

try TreeSize Free to see what folders/files are taking up space.

billymitchell · 11-08-2010 8:42am

Might sound a bit left of field this question, but have you rebooted your PC in the last few weeks since you noticed this?

I had a problem before where my PC would fill up with temp nonsense, and no program would pick up what it was. But after a reboot, my free space mysteriously reappeared.

Just my two cents anywho

quaidox · 11-08-2010 9:07am

also if you are running vista then it's the system restore points filling your drive. you can turn system restore off to stop this happening.

Sephiroth_dude · 11-08-2010 5:33pm

quaidox wrote: »

also if you are running vista then it's the system restore points filling your drive. you can turn system restore off to stop this happening.

How do I do this?

Sephiroth_dude · 14-08-2010 10:19pm

???????anyone?

degsie · 14-08-2010 11:06pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

???????anyone?

Ahem...

Sephiroth_dude · 14-08-2010 11:19pm

degsie wrote: »

Ahem...

:rolleyes:

Harddrive problem

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