Low disk space

older i get better i was

hi i keep getting a warning saying "you are low on disk space", I don't have much stored on my laptop accept photos and small amount of video, i have a 1 yr old asus k52f, i can do a disk frag etc maybe delete a game or two but im surprised im getting this message as all i do on it is surf and use word for my college assignments, as you can see i'm no puter nerd can anyone advise me as to what the problem is?

RUCKING FETARD

http://windirstat.info/

will give you a nice graph of what's using how much.

johndoe99

right-click your hard drive in my computer and choose properties, and see how much free space you have left.

There are viruses and spyware that download useless data that fills your HD too.

cookie1977

Use ccleaner to get rid of a lot of the crap that could have built up. I find too that system restore points can hog a lot of space if allowed to build up.

http://www.ccleaner.com

Corkbah

you may just need to delete "temporary internet files "

Torqay

Probably the Acer utility/recovery partition. Disable the Low Disk Space warning:

Run the Registry Editor (REGEDIT.EXE).
Open HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Policies\ Explorer.
(If it's not there, create a new DWORD (32bit) value and call it NoLowDiskSpaceChecks.)
Double-click on NoLowDiskSpaceChecks, and enter the value 1, and press OK.

donaghs

Don't do anything, until you first ascertain how much hard disk space is actually used/free. You haven't mentioned this. You also haven't mentioned what OS you are running? If its one year old, its probably some variant of "Windows Vista" or "Windows 7"?

If it is Windows, you should open "Computer" or "Windows Explorer" and get a view of you hard disk space. There are numerous ways of doing this. e.g. clicking on the Windows key and E. Or just finding them in the Start Menu. Right-click on "C:" and then on "Properties". The will also tell you the total size of the disk itself.

There's always a chance the warning message is coming from an incorrect source, e.g. spyware.

Also feel free to post up the capacity info, or the warning message itself. You can take a picture of the screen with the "Print Scr" key, then paste it into "Paint" and save as a picture. ALT GR and PRTSC will can be used to copy individual dialog boxes/ pop-ups.

ASJ112

Flush your system restore cache too, that can take up a few gigs easily.

mach1982

older i get better i was wrote: »

hi i keep getting a warning saying "you are low on disk space", I don't have much stored on my laptop accept photos and small amount of video, i have a 1 yr old asus k52f, i can do a disk frag etc maybe delete a game or two but im surprised im getting this message as all i do on it is surf and use word for my college assignments, as you can see i'm no puter nerd can anyone advise me as to what the problem is?

It's not the number of files you have it the size, videos and pics take up a lot of space.

bonzodog2

Also check Recycle Bin properties for % of drive to use. If you have a lot of movies get an external drive and move them there. Don't forget to back up anything you have created yourself that you'd hate to lose - i.e. copy it to at least 2 locations, 1 preferarably kept at a different location.

older i get better i was

johndoe99 wrote: »

right-click your hard drive in my computer and choose properties, and see how much free space you have left.

There are viruses and spyware that download useless data that fills your HD too.

have done this, the space is shown in red nearly full, 16mb left of 122gb, so how can i free up some of this space?

cookie1977

Did you try ccleaner? It's saying 16mbs of 122gb? Are you sure it's that little? Move some videoas, documents and pictures on to your other drive or a usb drive if you have one

johndoe99

older i get better i was wrote: »

have done this, the space is shown in red nearly full, 16mb left of 122gb, so how can i free up some of this space?

have you run a full antivirus scan ?

If there is some spyware/virus on your PC downloading data, there won't be much point deleting items as it will fill up again.

cookie1977

johndoe99 wrote: »

have you run a full antivirus scan ?

If there is some spyware/virus on your PC downloading data, there won't be much point deleting items as it will fill up again.

He wont be able to run one with only 16mbs of memory.

johndoe99

cookie1977 wrote: »

He wont be able to run one with only 16mbs of memory.

in that case try:

http://www.eset.com/us/online-scanner/

this scanner only needs 15mb of space to run, it may or may not run, but see if it will.

cookie1977

Are you getting any pop ups or funny warnings (apart from disk space)? Try this if not:

Press the windows key and the letter E (or open my computer from the start menu)
right click on the c drive and click properties
Click disk cleanup
let it doe it's job (could take a little while) then select all (tick the boxes)
click the more options tab and under the system restore option click cleanup and then click delete. Then click ok and click delete files.

This could take a while

older i get better i was

running that scan now but have avg nd don't think thats the prob, im up to 860mb free now after deleting few documents nd games but c disk is still 99% full

older i get better i was

cookie1977 wrote: »

Are you getting any pop ups or funny warnings (apart from disk space)? Try this if not:

Press the windows key and the letter E (or open my computer from the start menu)
right click on the c drive and click properties
Click disk cleanup
let it doe it's job (could take a little while) then select all (tick the boxes)
click the more options tab and under the system restore option click cleanup and then click delete. Then click ok and click delete files.

This could take a while

done this earlier, freed up small amount, not getting popups and the low space on e looks genuine,
scan finnished no threats found

cookie1977

And have you run ccleaner too?

Can you tell me what space each hard disk has on your computer
c
d
e
etc...

donaghs

If you've only a few docs and vids on it, and a few games installed, it sounds very strange that there's only 16MB of 120GB left.

You could do some the recommended stuff to free up some room to make the computer more usable (e.g. clear all Temp Internet Files), but I think there could be a bigger problem that needs resolving. Might be worth getting someone you know to have a hnads-on look at it. An app like DirSize will be able to say which folders are using the most space, and eventually you may be able to track down the culprit (system folders like "c:\windows" will naturally use up a lot of space, but shouldnt grow more than 30GB in Vista or W7.).

donaghs

cookie1977 wrote: »

And have you run ccleaner too?

Can you tell me what space each hard disk has on your computer
c
d
e
etc...

Good point, you mention that you also have an "E" drive?

older i get better i was

cookie1977 wrote: »

And have you run ccleaner too?

Can you tell me what space each hard disk has on your computer
c
d
e
etc...

c hardisk nearly full and D data nearly empty! no E drive

cookie1977

older i get better i was wrote: »

c hardisk nearly full and D data nearly empty! no E drive

And (for the third time) have you installed and run ccleaner to see if it can help clean out the trash? http://www.ccleaner.com

Also open windows explorer and open:
C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download
delete everything in here

C:\Windows\Temp
delete everything in here

C:\Users\"YOUR USERNAME"\AppData\Local\Temp
delete everything in here

bonzodog2

Move some stuff to then!
Most browsers will remember where you tell them to save to.

older i get better i was

cookie1977 wrote: »

And (for the third time) have you installed and run ccleaner to see if it can help clean out the trash? http://www.ccleaner.com

Also open windows explorer and open:
C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download
delete everything in here

C:\Windows\Temp
delete everything in here

C:\Users\"YOUR USERNAME"\AppData\Local\Temp
delete everything in here

yes done that ccleaner

cookie1977

And did you get much more space after running ccleaner and deleting what was in those folders? I feel like I'm pulling teeth here

older i get better i was

sorry bud if im pissin you off, but ive defragged, and done most of the things said on here but it remains that most of the hard drive is used up, as you can guess im no puter boffin

johndoe99

the only surefire way of restoring your PC to proper working order is a Format.

But as you say "im no puter boffin", i'd recommend getting help from someone that can sit down at your notebook to do this.

older i get better i was

at the moment my puter is working perfectly, its just i don't think it will for much longer I've done all the above accept ccleaner as my avg wont allow it, is there much involved in moving stuff to data drive?

cookie1977

older i get better i was wrote: »

sorry bud if im pissin you off, but ive defragged, and done most of the things said on here but it remains that most of the hard drive is used up, as you can guess im no puter boffin

No worries And you deleted the stuff in the folders I mentioned above too? And then emptied the recycle bin?

vibe666

as has already been mentioned, windirstat will allow you to see exactly where your disk space is being used up.

http://windirstat.info/

don't go deleting anything, just run a scan with it and let us know what is taking up all the space and we can tell you if it's anything you can delete or move.

cookie1977

vibe666 wrote: »

as has already been mentioned, windirstat will allow you to see exactly where your disk space is being used up.

http://windirstat.info/

don't go deleting anything, just run a scan with it and let us know what is taking up all the space and we can tell you if it's anything you can delete or move.

There's no harm in deleting what was suggested in the temp folders. At the very least if he's never done it before it'll give him a substantial bump to his free space. Afterwards if the OP still has issues windirstat would be of some help to us. But you could find a couple of gigs in the temp folders depending on things.

vibe666

i assumed he already had, i just didn't want him seeing a big system32 folder and deleting that.

cookie1977

vibe666 wrote: »

i assumed he already had, i just didn't want him seeing a big system32 folder and deleting that.

:O