disk full message but it shouldn't be!
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disk full message but it shouldn't be!
my hard disk is divided into C and D drives. Despite regularly running disk clean up, defragmenter and scandisk i now continuously get drive full messages and this is confirmed by the properties of disk C. Why is this? I have not installed new software or downloads for a while but the spare capacity on disk C has been going down and down and it is now virtually nothing, hence problems. D drive seems unaffected. Virus scan shows no infections.....whats going on?? Any advice from pc gurus appreciated!!
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You need to say what your operating system is and what the size of the HD is.
But some pointers are:
Keeping a lot of e-mails will use up disk space. Mine uses about 750 MB.
If you have crashes regularly, there may be memory dumps in the Windows System directory.
Look in the Temp directories for garbage. There could be two of them; one off the Root directory and one in the Documents and Settings branch. (Depends on OS).
Using Windows Explorer, do a search on either all files, or on files over, say, 50KB. You'll soon find out whether your space is being consumed by garbage or stuff you are saving for a rainy day.
NT4 used to keep a file called something like Handler.trc and it grew and grew until at 1GB I deleted it and suffered no ill effects.
But some pointers are:
Keeping a lot of e-mails will use up disk space. Mine uses about 750 MB.
If you have crashes regularly, there may be memory dumps in the Windows System directory.
Look in the Temp directories for garbage. There could be two of them; one off the Root directory and one in the Documents and Settings branch. (Depends on OS).
Using Windows Explorer, do a search on either all files, or on files over, say, 50KB. You'll soon find out whether your space is being consumed by garbage or stuff you are saving for a rainy day.
NT4 used to keep a file called something like Handler.trc and it grew and grew until at 1GB I deleted it and suffered no ill effects.
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Well, it may be something else.....
Here on this forum in the past have been articles and links to windows privacy issues.
Apparently Windows stores a copy of EVERY email message from Outlook and EVERY url you have used in a series of HIDDEN files.
Sorry for shouting, but I didn't want people to say that just by cleaning out your cookies and temp files they are removed.
Some information is here....
http://www.gi-ad.com/winskupa/default.asp
I use History Killer from www.historykill.com, but it does not erase the big hidden files. It does have an excellent popup stopper though....
I've thought for the past year that some computers simply slow down in spite of constant scandisk, defgrag and registry cleaning because those hidden files approach a size where the Windows Swap File has to be shrunk....thus the computer slows down....
Here on this forum in the past have been articles and links to windows privacy issues.
Apparently Windows stores a copy of EVERY email message from Outlook and EVERY url you have used in a series of HIDDEN files.
Sorry for shouting, but I didn't want people to say that just by cleaning out your cookies and temp files they are removed.
Some information is here....
http://www.gi-ad.com/winskupa/default.asp
I use History Killer from www.historykill.com, but it does not erase the big hidden files. It does have an excellent popup stopper though....
I've thought for the past year that some computers simply slow down in spite of constant scandisk, defgrag and registry cleaning because those hidden files approach a size where the Windows Swap File has to be shrunk....thus the computer slows down....
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Couple a things you could check....
1) Have you emptied your recycle bin lately?
2) Empty the disk cache on your browser (it can get *real* full
3) Whatever email client you're using - clean out your sent email
and removed email, all clients keep copies of your sent email
and some clients dont delete trashed (removed) email
1) Have you emptied your recycle bin lately?
2) Empty the disk cache on your browser (it can get *real* full
3) Whatever email client you're using - clean out your sent email
and removed email, all clients keep copies of your sent email
and some clients dont delete trashed (removed) email
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HAH! My favourite problem!
BW et al,
There's a very easy way to delete all your temp files. Go to Start\Run and type the following:
deltree /y c
windows\temp
(that's assuming your windows folder is on your C: drive). Press ok, and wait until it says 'Finished' in the title bar of the little blue window that comes up. Saves a h*ll of a lot of trouble!
Also, if anyone's running out of space in Win 95/98/ME and you have a second hard drive, right-click on 'My Computer' on the desktop, select Properties and go to the Performance tab. Click on 'Virtual Memory' and select 'Let me specify my own virtual memory settings'. Change the drive from C: to D: (or whatever other HDD or partition you have), select the minimum as 0 and the max at about 300 (or leave it to your own judgement). Click apply, then 'Yes' on the warning that comes up, then click 'Close' and restart. Should speed the system up a bit.
Nial
There's a very easy way to delete all your temp files. Go to Start\Run and type the following:
deltree /y c
windows\temp(that's assuming your windows folder is on your C: drive). Press ok, and wait until it says 'Finished' in the title bar of the little blue window that comes up. Saves a h*ll of a lot of trouble!
Also, if anyone's running out of space in Win 95/98/ME and you have a second hard drive, right-click on 'My Computer' on the desktop, select Properties and go to the Performance tab. Click on 'Virtual Memory' and select 'Let me specify my own virtual memory settings'. Change the drive from C: to D: (or whatever other HDD or partition you have), select the minimum as 0 and the max at about 300 (or leave it to your own judgement). Click apply, then 'Yes' on the warning that comes up, then click 'Close' and restart. Should speed the system up a bit.
Nial
