i have a dell, and i find my hard disk space is disappearing faster than i think it should. i do download a lot of mp3s and games, but not as much as the space im losing. i have already changed the sys restore allocation to just over a gig. i know it should be less but sys restore saved me once and i want it there at least in some part.

when i say its leaving faster than it should, i mean i installed a program and downloaded about 50 mb of mp3s and i lost a gig of space, according to norton system doctor. i do burn my own cds, but the temp folder where i think the wav files for the cds go is empty, and has been. does adaptec 4.0 automatically delete the files once it changes them to wavs? my temp internet files are deleted to, and i only allocate 60 mb to those. in my computer it says i have less space than norton does. is their one huge folder with all kinds of useles things going to it? if so i havent found it , and i have been looking. im perplexed.

specs: 933mhz pIII, 40 gb hd, 256 mb ram, win me

thanks a lot

This is a long shot but happened to me, several months ago I got a Virus (can"t remember Name) it copies your cookie files over and over I had 275 copies when I found it. AV soft didn't detect it, saw it posted on some board and checked. ate disk space steadily. about a gig a day. Maybe someone can post the name of it.

i dont think we have the same problem, mine isnt steady at all. what i t seems like is

a) anything i save to my computer is being recognized as much larger, so when i download large files it will appear as much more than the amount i downloaded.

or
b)i cant find a large group of temporary internet files or wav files from cd burning.

or

c)some setting (ex: sys restore) is using way too much disk space and i cant find it

thanks

Howdy, Since ya got a CD-RW drive, back up what is important, format and reload. Also, if you are running norton make sure you are emptying the Norton Protected Recycle Bin as well. You could have a virus as well, so never rule that out. If you have the money, take it to a tech to have it looked at since this is a weird one.

Laters,

Kevin The Tech Dude
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to figure out what is causing it you can do following.... open your windows explorer... set it to show all files (also hidden and also system files)... then rightclic on the left pannel on each subdirectory and choze the properties... it will show you how big the subdirectory is... that way you can find what subdirectory is excessively big... it could be temporary CD images that will not get erased if you have a failed burn... i got that way about 4 gig in over a month
Regards Miro

Perhaps there's nothing wrong with the amount of data you have on your disk, but with the amount of free space. I've had some problems with this. I just ran a thorough scandisk and all was fixed.

Johan

Hi menchini:

There is a wonderful little program out there called Disk Mapper that will give you a visual map of your hard drive in about 5 seconds. It reports the space in a bunch of different ways, but always shows you how big a folder or file is using a GUI map of the drive. You can look for certain extensions . . . programs or files that have never been used . . . files by date . . . It's a pretty cool utility actually. I first read about it back in the days of Windows 95, and the 1GB hard drive. If you have the sheckles, I would recommend this program as a "must have" for any Windows system. I have run it on my systems for over 5 years now and would never be without it. It does not sit on resident memory so it uses no resources unless you actually run it.

Take care and be safe,

-TimeRider

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Hi menchini:

There is a 32 Bit version for Win98 and it works on Me as well:

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Take care and be safe,

-TimeRider

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reduce your syst.restore cache
Right click my computer>>performance>>filesystem>>Harddisk,there change the setting for sys.restore all the way to left.click apply and ok.