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I am having a problem with my hard drive filling up uncontrollably. Believe it or not HD's do get filled up 'uncontrollably'! When I go to remove/add programs, the biggest program I see there is my MS Office product at about 500 MB. I have other things that add up to 50 MB. That, I know, is not enough to fill up 20 GB. My Norton disc clean up keeps coming up every time I restart my PC saying I am running out of disc space and that I should remove some programs I don't use. (I have often thought about removing Norton to stop the nuisance!)Last time I removed adobe, thinking I will download it as I need it. I have Spybot, Spyhunter, adware, zonelab and Norton Antivirus and Firewall running. I run one or the other daily, and they all say my PC is spic n' span clean! whateve I got is not your average virus! I had boradband and DSL at diffrent times. I have now gone 56K hoping this craziness would stop. I also had Kazza on my PC at one time. I dropped it long before they started threatning to sue, but I am afraid it had not dropped me! My freaking PC is drowning and I can't help it! HELP!!!
did u install bootvis???
if u did, remove itcheck this path
x:\windows\system32\logfiles\wmi\
if u have a lage file, delete it...
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Description of the Disk Cleanup Tool in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310312
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Another thing I notice that is taking up space is EVENT VIEWER logs. Go into EV then right click each catagory, then click "Clear all events".
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disable eventloging in zone alarm ... then delete all ZA logfiles from the following folder: c:\windows\internet logs ... good luck
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In Add/Remove programs, my Office 2000 with SR1 is 89 megs. I have another entry for Publisher that's 127 megs. Don't know why that's separate since Publisher, Excel, Word, etc. are all in office. Maybe I have another copy installed.
Anyway, something's wrong there.
Do a search for very large files. Set it at, say, 1 meg and above and see what you come up with.
Go to My Computer, check on the c: drive properties to see how much they say you have.
Do the other advice here.
Finally, hard to believe, but 20Gigs is getting smaller every day.
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You could have a conflict between zonealarm and norton firewall. shut down one and try it. Running 2 firewalls is not recommended.Rgds.
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