a month ago I had 900mb of free space. Everytime I uninstall a program or delete anything I lose space. I now have less than 200 kb of free space and cannot find where it's gone. HELP

Are you emptying the recycle bin?

You should be running a program like CCleaner (aka Crap Cleaner). And when you install it, don't click thru the screens too quickly or you'll install Yahoo Toolbar...watch the screen & remove the check from the box so that it doesn't install.

http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/

And don't forget Windows needs room for a swap file. How big is your HDD?

Have you run a defrag? Deleted all temp files?

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remember too that you can discover what's eating up the most disk space.

In My Computer, go into the drive. Select View>Details. Then click on the tab labelled size, above the column which lists the sizes of the files and folders. this will list them in order, biggest to smallest. Another click of the size tab will reverse the order - smallest to biggest.

You can then repeat this process. Go into the largest folder and find out what's eating up the space in there. And so on.

Also, one thing about cleanup software. Do not erase the log files. I use Complete Cleanup, which is a great product, and it gives the option to find log files - i've deleted a few crucial ones in my time.

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Okay, I have run cc cleaner, defragged, and when I check file sizes I cannot find anything out of order. I have uninstalled every program that has been added since 2003. I went to DOS and deleted win386.swp. During this process my available disk space has dropped to 31MG. I cannot figure it out. win386 swap came back with 54mg. It had 98mg

that's the swap file!

Sure - it's pointless to delete the swapfile

Very likely the 'missing' space is being used by System Restore - you can check and adjust the amount devoted to this through Control Panel, System, Performance and click on 'File System' to see 'System Restore disk space use' - you can set that to the minimum.

You can also disable it entirely (if so desired) under the troubleshooting tab

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try disabling the system restore which gives you considerable free space back. try some help for system restore enable/disable here.

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