Okay so here's my problem... I had my computer for less than a year, it has 40gb of memory on it.

However I only have 1.7gb left, and I know for having this computer for the short amount of time that I've had it, that I should have more than half of my memory left.

I only have like 8.5gb of music, and maybe 2 or 3 games on here that might add up to less than 5gb.

I've done a disk clean up, and error check on the disk. I've also done a virus and spy ware check to see if it could be either of those taking up the space.

Do y'all have any other suggestions on what I should do to figure out what could be taking up all that space?

3/18/2006 5:12:56 PM

defrag

3/18/2006 5:30:41 PM

System Restore and your virtual memory.

System Restore alone is probably set at 12%.

[Edited on March 18, 2006 at 5:41 PM. Reason : eh]

[Edited on March 18, 2006 at 5:42 PM. Reason : .]

3/18/2006 5:40:23 PM

Go to Start --> Search --> for files and folders

Click search options

Select SIZE and set it to find files at least 50mb (50,000kb)

If you have windows XP it may be slightly different to do the file search but you still select size and set it to find files at least 50mb.

You probably have a lot of anime on there.

3/18/2006 5:49:45 PM

turn off system restore altogether, indexing service, install/run ccleaner, turn off hibernation, lock pagefile to 1gb

3/19/2006 2:46:36 AM

use a disk space analyzer to graph your biggest files and folders
http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/index.html
http://www.werkema.com/software/spacemonger.html
http://www.spadixbd.com/dsm/

3/19/2006 2:52:21 AM

Quote :

"defrag"

wow

3/19/2006 8:49:55 PM

Defragmentation can free up space on a hard drive. If you don't understand how that works, you ought to ask a few questions in Tech Talk yourself.

3/19/2006 8:53:50 PM

will you explain it to me?

3/20/2006 9:32:47 AM

If defrag frees up any space then it would be very minimal (a few KB). The only way defragmenting a disk will cause a net increase in space is that there is less overhead in the FAT to track the various noncontiguous segments of fragmented files.

[Edited on March 20, 2006 at 10:16 AM. Reason : +]

3/20/2006 10:16:06 AM

^

FroshKiller I suggest you learn before speaking.

3/20/2006 11:17:02 AM

indeed.

I had to think a while to even come up with that scenario.

[Edited on March 20, 2006 at 11:25 AM. Reason : and even it is a stretch! (you would get like 4K back)]

3/20/2006 11:24:21 AM

1. delete c:\windows
2. ...
3. profit

3/20/2006 1:09:10 PM

follow agentlion's suggestion

theres another one called file tree that works well too

3/20/2006 1:43:58 PM

turn the machine off, then turn it back on

that clears up memory just fine

3/20/2006 2:46:08 PM

3/20/2006 2:50:06 PM

omg

a comedian

3/20/2006 4:02:20 PM

format c:

3/20/2006 5:04:37 PM