Loads Of TMP Files In C:windows System32 - Hard Drive Fills In Short Space
Oct 6, 2007
Loads of *.TMP files created automatically in c:windowssystem32 " on http://forums.techguy.org/malware-re...matically.html while searching for a problem I was having.It was posted by DidoWide on the HJT forum, so I was unable to post a reply, nor could I send DidoWide an email to ask how he solved in in the end, but I have the exact same problem. Two times now, at a seemingly random times (both times round about 11:00AM), all of a sudden, loads (and I mean tens of thousands) of TMP files, looking like 0fb149fbcb12b2799cfd1c55fc08b4e9.TMP are pumped into my system32 folder. In a matter of 15 or 20 minutes, this may generated as much as 5GB of used diskspace. Some are 0K, some are 91K, but other than those tow, sizes seem to be constant.
I'm running Windows XP sp2. Problem is, my C drive fills up. I have removed all but the latest restore point, reduced the max amount of restore point storage to 5%, and removed all of the programs that I don't use very often, moved all of my files to the D drive, clean the cache and remove cookies regularly, and use disk cleanup a lot. After all of this, I only have 1.25GB left in C drive. Not even enough space left to defrag the drive. Anyone have any suggestions? Before long I won't have ANY programs left. I don't use a TV card or anything like that, although I do have the capability to record but never use it.
My computer os is windows XP the drive is a 30 GB when I installed it I had to format it and now I only see 2.15 gb how do get to use the entire drive I have nothing on it so if it comes to reformating to do it a differnt way I will
I have a IBM thinkpad with Windows XP Pro. It has a 25G hard drive.I keep getting error messages telling me the crive is full.I have deleted all non-critical programs. ( The only large ones I have left XP are Office XP, Lotus notes, and my Ipod software.)I have also deleted all non-essential files. ( I have 893MB remaining used in My Documents. This includes the songs for my Ipod.)It seems after I delete files/programs within 1 or 2 days whatever space I've freed up is used again. I have tried using the search function to find large files.
I've heard a lot of good things about Sure Delete, which is used to delete files from your computer permanently (I'm really paranoid about identity theft). When I used it, I just expected it to clear these deleted files from my system so they couldn't be brought back, but what actually happened was much different. I came back to my computer to find that my 400 gigabyte hard drive that was originally less than 90 gigabytes full now has 397 gigabytes used and runs at an astoundingly slow speed. The readme for the program claims that if such a case occurs to delete the sdel.tmp files in the directory cleared, which in my case was C:. Unfortunately, they don't exist there, or anywhere else. I've done over 15 full system scans, used the Windows XP Disk Cleanup tool 3 times, as well as 2 3rd-party disk cleaners, attempted a System Restore (Which didn't work), tried to email the makers of Sure Delete (Which returned an error every time), re-ran the program twice, and uninstalled the program, restarted my computer, and checked again. Nothing has done anything. If you wanna check out Sure Delete,
I set up a log through performance monitor that would give me a percentage of free space available and the time at which the percentage was available. I noticed a pattern, every five minutes the hard drive would lose around 300mb. As the free space percentages grew smaller and smaller so did the discrepancy of free space from five minutes prior. I then noticed that it was between a 15 second gap that some thing happened, I then used process monitor to try and see what was happening in that 15 second time frame, alas no real definitive cause could be ascertained. I tried to look for write, create, processes and even network activity that only happened with in the time frame, but nothing really jumped out. Maybe I overlooked something while going through the promon logs?
Performance monitor that would give me a percentage of free space available and the time at which the percentage was available. I noticed a pattern, every five minutes the hard drive would lose around 300mb. As the free space percentages grew smaller and smaller so did the discrepancy of free space from five minutes prior. I then noticed that it was between a 15 second gap that some thing happened, I then used process monitor to try and see what was happening in that 15 second time frame, alas no real definitive cause could be ascertained. I tried to look for write, create, processes and even network activity that only happened with in the time frame, but nothing really jumped out.its overlooked something while going through the promon logs.
Have a P4, 3.0, 200g HD, Xp Home. 2 partitions. I deleted and moved files, computer tells me that I have the same amount of capacity on first partition before I deleted and moved files. I have gotten rid of over 30g of files. Where is my free space
for some reason xp will not load on start up. I'm planning on reformatting the hard drive but i would like to get the files that i need out of there before reformating. How do you get files from a hard drive without windows being activated?
I want to back up my files to an external hard drive using Windows Backup, but it is not shown as an option. The only options shown are the floppy and f: drives. Can you use this program to back up to an external drive? If so, how do you tell it where to send the data?
I have windows xp professional sp2, I uninstalled Symantec Antivirus then rebooted computer. Went through bios load screen then came a black screen (no hard drive activity or nothing) and stays black with no hard drive activity or anything for about 5 minutes. After the 5 minutes I get the Windows XP loading screen then boots as normal.
Prior to me uninstalling symantec it went straight from bios screens to windows xp loading screen almost immediately. The reason I uninstalled antivirus was I wanted to try a different antivirus
I recently noticed that my free space on hard drive has been eroded and my used space has been increasing. I have not added any software. Much to my dismay I cannot figure out why this would occur. We did make recovery disks and removed our partition some weeks ago. It seems our C drive is using up space without any explanation. Ran many different anti virus and spyware software and they did not detect anything.
using XP. am having wild swings in my hard drive space go from 46.1 to 44.1 and sometimes in between. have not installed any new programs recently. what could be causing it and how do i correct also am noticing my laptop as slowed appreciablydo know whether the two problems are correlated
I recently helped someone save the documents off of their computer after it crashed (it was missing a Windows file. I tried the repair command and it wouldn't work, so I decided to save the files and reformat the hard drive).I plugged the hard drive into a working computer and pulled all the documents off of it (VERY slowly) onto an external hard drive.
Every once in awhile I wouldn't be able to pull a picture or document off because of a cyclic redundancy check error. I just moved on and saved what I could. I assumed it was because the hard drive was already bad so I just moved what I could.
I have 69.1 memory free from 74.5 and i noticed no matter how much i delete i cant get up into the 70s.For example this month i have deleted a ton of music files that came up to about 400mb,Then a few programs that were around 50mb each and still nothing .If anything it seems i am going down in memory instead of gaining from deleting these programs.
I have a Dell computer where one of the loading .dll files came up 'missing' one day, so it won't boot. I want to get all the photos and other docs off the hard drive. I had downloaded one version of linux and was able to see the files on the internal hard drive, but was unable to copy them to a memory stick or external hard drive. Now I've downloaded ubuntu and booted off a memory stick... this time, it's telling me that the internal hard drive has all kinds of bad sectors and won't let me access any of the files on there.
I need to free up space on my computer and I have already did a disk clean up and it tells me after the clean up how much I will gain, but once it is done it has not given me that space. How do I free more space and gain memory
There is something wrong with my hard drive. My hard drive is 4.74 gb and when i first got my computer i had around 1500 mb space left and including windows office pack. Now i only have around 200 mb no office pack because i uninstalled it for personal reasons. and i only have 2 programs installed msn messenger and windows media player.I don't know what took up all the rest of the space
I recently was working with about seven 4gb file and they are now deleted however my hard drive space has went from about 65gb to 2gb. Yet everything is gone, and they wouldn't go in the recycle bin so its no being stored there. I got a tool called SpaceMonger that looks at free space and nothing is taking up that room. In fact what is shows is taking up room doesn't add up to the space being used. Are these file being held somewhere and not deleting. Is there anyway to clear the room again that isn't being taken up
I'm running Windows XP home on a modest laptop. Recently, I've noticed a massive reduction in my hard drive space for no apparent reason. Its specd at 40Gb, although in the 'properties' it states 33Gb actual capacity. BUT, If I 'explore' the hard drive, I come up with around 11Gb used. This includes all hidden folders as well (pagefile, hiberfil etc.) as well as the usual Windows, and Docs & Settings etc. I have only used 11Gb, 'properties' tell me I've used 29.2Gb, and only have 3.8Gb left I have used several anti virus scanners, and spyware scanners - but they make no difference to the capacity shown. I only have modest needs for hard drive space, but would really like my 18Gb back 29.2 - 11 = around 18
Im running Windows XP and I recently noticed that my "C:" drive has very little hard-drive space remaining--less than 2GBs out of about 38GBs. (My hard drive is partitioned into a C: and a D: drive.) I set about trying to free space on the C: drive. I have uninstalled a number of programs, I cleared my browsers' caches, deleted temporary internet and Windows temp files, used Windows disk cleaner and crap cleaner to remove junk, and reduced the space on the drive available to System Restore. Over the last several days, I have cumulatively freed up about 6GBs of space; however, each time I take some action, I find that the space gets mysteriously used up and I'm left once more with less than 2GBs of free space. I have run my antivirus software (Avast!) and my spyware programs (Spybot Search & Destroy and Windows Defender). I am also using Zone Alarm free firewall. I don't know what more to do and cannot figure out what is eating up my hard drive space. My drive is in need of defragmentation, but cannot be defragmented because there is not enough space available
My laptop died and I removed the hard drive.i hooked the hard drive up to my new laptop via a SATA/IDE cable.
I can see the old hard drive in the E drive and it appears that all the contents are there by the size of the hard drive (same as when I had it in the old laptop) but I can only see, actually view, a very small percentage of the drive.
My goal: I want to transfer all old music, word documents and photos from old laptop into new laptop.
I recently downloaded loads of music video's with a view to burning them onto DVD using my Nero 7 DVD Burning Programes. I had 75% free space on my hard drive at that time. Many of these video's were flv format so I had to download and install a flv to mpg video converter programme. After converting the video's from flv to mpg so that Nero would accept them and making up the music video compilation using Nero 7 I noticed that I had only 4% free space left on my hard drive. So I couldn't get on with the second compilation. Nero told me I needed more hard disc space. I then deleted all the music video's I no longer needed, both the flv versions and the converted mpg versions
I have 80GB hard drive on my computer. I only have 31GB free space. My total size is 74.5GB. So I'm assuming the 5.5 is made up of programs needed to run the computer. I have deleted all my music video and audio files/folders which were taking up even more space. I've tried defragmentation, emptying the recycle bin etc etc. I've uninstalled some rarely used programs. In my Program Files there are 49 Items taking up 34.3GB of space. Surely this is too much, I do have Nero and Roxio which take a lot of space. Looking at 'Control Panel' I see 'Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1', 'Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2' and also 'Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Service Pack 2'. Do I really need 1.1 and 2.0 if I have 3.0
alright so i have windows xp professional and it has about 18.6GB and I only have 3.9GB that isn't taken up How can i increase my free space again? I have no idea where the other 15GBs went. When I try Disk Cleanup it doesn't work.
I'm hoping someone can help me with this. I recently replaced a bad motherboard which forced me to wipe my hard drive since it was set up in a raid format. I currently have 2 120GB hard drives which is equivalent of about 198GB total.When I reinstalled Windows I made 1 partition of about 30GB for Windows and other programs only and created the other partition with the rest of the hard drive without really looking at the GBs avail on it. Once Windows was installed I noticed that the 2nd partition only had 120GB giving me 150GB total. I booted from the Windows CD again and did not see any unaccounted space from the hard drive.
My HP Mini has a 16GB hard drive and I've had it for about 6 months now. When I used CCleaner and WinDirStat yesterday, it only scanned and showed 6 GB of total space, not free space. I don't use very many programs, and I'm trying to find out where all of my memory went:To save hard drive space, I've turned off both hibernation and System restore, moved my My Documents folder to my SD card, and kept my installations to about 1.5 GB.
I have an external hardrive that is 80gb. you can put 74.5gb of info on it. i have 21.4gb of info on it. When i right click on the HD and go to properties it says that i have 8.19gb of space left. last time i checked 74.5 minus 21.4 does not equal 8.19.I had a large file on it. it was about 23gb, when i deleted it the file, the file went away like it was supposed to but the HD space never became available again. How do i fix this?
I have 16GB of hard drive with 40% free space.Yesterday I downloaded bit torrent (7MB) in order to hear audio from torrent (67MB).Now this should have not taken up more than 1/2 a percent of my hard drive.As soon as I installed the bit torrent and it downloaded the 3 CDs totaling 67MB, I checked my hard drive space and it took up a whopping 5%.It went from 40% free space to 35%.This can't be.I checked my c drive and add/remove programs to see if there were any hidden uploads, but I didn't see any.I then uninstalled the bit torrent and the 3 cds, and it only gave me back less than one percent.Where did this 5% go and how can I find whats taking up this 5%.I didn't make any changes otherwise.
In the past week I have noticed that every time I start my system I am losing a .5 GB of space on my hard drive. I use Norton for virus protection. I have done a chkdsk with no avail. Scans show no worms, virus or any other problem.I have gone from 65 GB to 55 GB in two days.
