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I had a pop-up window on the task bar telling me free space on hard drive is low. I only have about 80meg left on a 20 gig hard drive. I checked it about a week ago and had 6 gig free space. Any ideas what to check?
Try this little app out for size.
http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/
It will let you know what directories are using the most space.
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Thanks for the help, I got back about 1 gig by deleting some files and running disk cleanup. But I still don't undersdtand how I lost that much space almost overnight.
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Since your newest Post was removed, and regarding removal of All Users items,
My opinion is not to remove anything because what each User sees, when logged on to their User Account, comes from the All Users folder and their username folder.Example--
The Desktop that a User sees comes from two folders:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop
and
C:\Documents and Settings\username\DesktopWhere username denotes your User Account configured on the computer.
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The Start Menu a User sees comes from two folders:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\...
and
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Start Menu\Programs\...Where username denotes your User Account configured on the computer.
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Another thing I notice that is taking up space is
EVENT VIEWER logs. Go into Event Viewer then right click
each catagory (System, Security, and Application),
then click "Clear all events".
When Prompted to Save, do not save.
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Also check all the files in
C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch
The Prefetch folder is quite large.
I have deleted all files there, even
Layout.ini, at times without problems.
It will rebuild itself over time.
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Do you check for, and remove, Spyware ??
Spyware info.from Microsoft
Virus and Spyware scans work better in Windows Safe-Mode.
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Computer viruses: description, prevention, and recovery
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Thanks, I am the only user on the PC, if that makes a difference.I will check the Event Viewer and Prefetch files.
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I am the only user on my XP too, But seems to me
that we need "All Users" things.Nasties can suck up harddrive space by reproduction of unwanted things.
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Start,
Run, then type
msconfig
Check the Startup tab for undesirable things.
And Task Manager processes.To find out what each Startup(or Process) item
does or means, and any recommendation as to if you should close the process:
Task List Programs
Also look here if you want:
The Process Library
Not all found at each place. Each advertises
their software product.
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Thanks again, and I forgot to tell you that I did run spybot and Win Patrol and didn't find anything unusual. I also did a virus scan, and was clean.
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ok the problem is fixed.
i had ~5gb of free space in my C drive left, but yesterday window xp stated i only have 67mb left and i also had the low on disk space message on in system tray.
then i log into windows in safemode ran spybot and went into Document and Setting\ then the user folder then Local Settings\Temp and delete the files that display as ~5gb then reboot.
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