Low Memory C Drive - Won't Update
Dec 1, 2007
I have a toshiba satellite laptop running XP Home. This morning as I am browsing the web I get a popup from the task tray telling me I am low on memory on the c drive. I have a 100gb hard drive and I think "no freaking way". I go to "my computer" and c: and hover over every folder in there - even the hidden ones. As I see it - I am only using about 30 gigs - which I still think is BS. I have about 10gigs of music. about 5 in movies that I have compressed to go on to my phone and about 5 min pictures.
I was going to run my virus scan (trend micro installed by my law school) but for some reason it won't update. It really never has unless I was on their system. I tried to uninstall the POS and it asks me for a password - which I don't have. I have emailed the IT department asking for help with removal before and they always tell me that I have to bring it in. Well - that doesn't work for me. So. I have rune the house call virus scan twice. It stalls both times at the end and I get nothing out of it. I have run Adaware and spy bot and removed all of the BS. So - I guess my question is - how the does my computer - which has about 20-30 gigs worth of stiff on it, register in the my computer portions as 30+ and give me a warning that I have 98 gigs used?....
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Feb 10, 2009
I am using Intel pentium 4 cpu 2.40GHz, 1.25 GB RAM. Iam using 80 GB samsung hard disk.
I installed Microsoft Windows XP Professional service pack 2 on a drive of 10 GB memory space with NTFS file system.
After the installation of Win XP, the drive properties shows 4.9 GB of used memory and only 4.45 GB of free memory, but when I try to find total memory occupied for all the files in that drive (using "select-all" and properties) the used memory is only 2.3 GB only.
Now I don't understand the huge difference of this memories calculations. Where that extra used memory gone, when the total memory occupied by all the files is much less.
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