It happens to everyone eventually. Your hard drive is suddenly full and you are left wondering where did all my free space go? Now you must begin the task of deleting old files and folders to reclaim space but where do you start? In the past I would suggest manually checking the sizes of all of your folders so you know where to begin the hunt but now there is a great utility called WinDirStat that does the work for you. After inspecting a drive you are shown exactly how much data is in each folder, what file types are taking up the most space and even a visual representation of the files on your disk....
I have a HP Pavillion dv6000 laptop computer. HP Total Care Advisor tells me only 4% is free on drive C. I ran disk defragmentation, disk cleanup, and uninstalled a good amount of programs I no longer use. It did not do anything. Once and awhile I get a prompt in the bottom right corner saying that I have low disk space. When I click on it it wants to run disk cleanup which does absolutely nothing. How do I free up space and make my computer perform the best it can?
C drive is almost full. D has lots of free space. What sorts files/folders can I safely move from C to D without having any future access difficulties?
The Windows Disk Cleanup utility does a good job of deleting old Microsoft temp files, logs, memory dumps and other OS related junk files. It can free up a lot of space on your computer but it often leaves a lot of junk behind. A great program that I use all the time on my computers is called CCleaner. Not only does it clean the Microsoft OS related junk files from your computer, it also removes junk files from other popular applications such as Firefox. Additionally, it is very good at locating other temporary files.....
I am running Windows Vista Ultimate and just compressed several large directories on Outlook 2007 and under my Documents directory in Explorer. After the compression was done, the amount of free space was less than before. Why did this happen? Is there a trick to using compression, or a better way to free up space?
Before starting the SP1 installation (full SP1 installation disk - downloaded) I had 70GB free space on C drive. After completing the SP1 install I have 95GB free space.
over the past 3 months, my free space has decreased dramatically! i had about 14GB of free space and now it's down to 5.5GB. During these months i haven't installed anything, the only thing i do is surf the web, update some old programs and download movies which i transfer to an external hard drive. So i haven't added anything to decrease the free space.
I've noticed that on the user folder, google earth takes some 1.8GB of space. The folder C:Windowswinsxs is growing almost every day and now it has reached 9.57GB So my question is can how can i free some 8GB safely? Is there any folder that keeps temp files that can be safely removed?
In Vista when I go into my computer it displays the space used on the hdds and the remaining space, but for removeable storge it does not automatticaly display it under the device name. Is there anyway I can get this working as it works in win 7 and not vista?
1. Is it ok to delete windows.old to free up drive space?
2. I tried deleting it and in the recycling progress box thing, the file kept growing and growing. And when i select properties for Windows.old it too seems to be growing.
P.S. I did a custom install when I installed Home premium upgrade and I want to leave the past behind and start with a clean computer slate. I only have 77gb/225gb free. That's why I'm trying to delete it
Have just suffered a catastrophic software meltdown and had to do a clean install of Vista and Office. All are running fine, but I have noticed that instead of a single drive C like I used to have, Vista has partitioned the hard drive. I have managed to free up all the space on the Single Volume that used to hold my data but I cannot reassign the free space to the main drive C. I can shrink the volume on the free simple volume but it only creates yet another one and I don't seem to be able to expand the space on the main drive
I m using vista business. I have a problem my c drive is 23.44 gb out of which on 12.75 g.b i m able to use. the rest is showing free space in disk management now what do i do?
Running Vista 32 bit, have the normal start up repair loop going on details below
Problem Event Name: StartupRepairV2 Problem Signature 01: AutoFailover Problem Signature 02: 6.0.6000.16386.6.0.6000.16386 Problem Signature 03: 6 Problem Signature 04: 2031645 Problem Signature 05: No boot failure Problem Signature 06: CorruptFile Problem Signature 07: 3221225624 Problem Signature 08: 3 Problem Signature 09: WrpRepair Problem Signature 10: 10 OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1 Locale ID: 1033
It won't start in safe mode & system restore (6 points) has not enough free space to restore the disk (I was backing up files into a folder to copy to an external drive filling the drive when it crashed - doh) & it says the Recovery X the disk is not in the selected restore point. Is there a way of copying files to enable the system resore to work or some other things to try.
Windows Vista has loads of new backup features such as previous versions of your documents and system state points that are part of System Restore. All of these features are turned on by default and offer you a great deal of backup protection. However, you pay a big price in disk space. Every once in a while when your system is stable and you need to free up some disk space, it is a good idea to clear all of these previous versions of your files and System Restore points from your computer. This is a very easy way to free up a few gigabytes of space across all of your hard drives.
Windows Home Premium 32bit. the capacity indicator show the "D" drive to have about 4GB free space out of 10GB. Yet, when I explore the drive, there is nothing there. I had previously been backing up to that drive but deleted those backup files. Yes, i have "view hidden files" turned on and still nothing except for a MediaID.bin file which consumes a whopping 1KB. Have no idea what is using 6GB of D drive space.
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Please post if there are anymore free anti-virus editions. For #5 (Comodo Internet Security Suite), there is a bug. If you click the link, it will go to Comodo Anti-Virus, you can use Anti-Virus. If you want Internet Security, click it on the left side panel.
I have a 320 GB HD. When I checked it, I only have 25 gigs of free space. However I can only find about 180 gigs of files/data. Any ideas as to how I lost 100 gigs of available of space? Just a couple of weeks ago I checked and I had plently of space. No recent installs, only recent changes are the removal of Mcaffee monitoring software and running JkDfrag.
i reformatted my whole c drive and then clean installed vista ultimate onto it and at start i had 268Gb out of 274Gb. now its gone to 243Gb and i've only installed a couple of programs and when i highlight everything in the c drive it says its 7.38GB. I've Defragged it a lot of times and the space keeps on going down.
I am surprised at how Vista refuses to release memory. I have disabled Supercaching entirely, and still I find that free RAM drifts from 0 to 50MB quite regularly. Way back in the day, I used to use an app called CacheMan - it would prompt the system to release physical RAM back to the system. It worked very well. The folks who develop CacheMan are working on a Vista64 version, but it's not quite cooked yet.
I'm looking for recommendations on mechanisms to prompt the release of this RAM. The reason for this is that I am trying to troubleshoot occasional mouse lockups, which feel like the system's swapping. Unfortunately, my HDD LED isn't working and my hard drives are pretty much silent. So if the system is actually swapping, I have no way to know aside from keeping a PerfMon session running all the time. I see various shareware apps out there to release RAM on demand or on schedule - I'm looking for recommendations. Once CacheMan is ready for Vista I'll give that a go.
I need a free antivirus program that I can leave disabled and one that I don't have to disable everytime I start up the ol laptop. I'm using Vista and I have tried AVG, AntiVir, and Avast!, none of which will let me permanently disable on startup.I need an antivirus program (who doesn't?), but I do not need one running all the time.
Does anyone know of a free pdf creator that will work with Vista? I'm not looking for a program that just functions as a printer. I want to be able to create a pdf, continually add to it, and create bookmarks in it.
As soon as i got my custom HP laptop, i unstalled Norton anti-virus, it is a total piece of crap that eats up my ram etc, etc... But, i do need an anti-virus program
To stop the little bubble thing to stop coming out from the taskbar at start up, i selected the option thati would monitor my own systesm secruity.. All i really have as a sure way of defense is Windows Defender. it is worling great so-far, worst thing i've gotten was a Trojan Downloader, quickley removed, and i only got it from a fake website that looked like Adobe Flash-Player Updater's site But, i need something that is free, and wont demolish my computer speed, But can get the job done!
I'm looking for a free and simple encryption program to use on my new machine. I was using Kruptos 2 on my XP machine, but it doesn't work in Vista X64. Is there ANTYHING good our there? I've looked for about an hour and a half without success. I don't want a trial offer.
Installed Free AVG 8 here today on two systems - Vista Home Premium SP1 and XP SP3 with IE7.
On the Vista machine, the installation of AVG 8 broke IE7 in opening a second window - it just hung until the "not responding" message appeared.I tried installing AVG without the surfsearch function, and without the Linkscanner module - still couldn't open a second window in IE. Uninstalling of AVG 8 cured the problem.
The installation on XP SP3 with IE7 had no effect at all. IE7 behaved perfectly normally. Anyone seen this, and is there a fix?
(The reason I went for AVG is that it picked up a virus on my XP machine