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| Thread ID: 76212 | 2007-01-24 23:50:00 | Unconstrained (and unwanted) data growth | johcar (6283) | Press F1 |
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| 519001 | 2007-01-24 23:50:00 | My laptop has a 60GB HDD . It is partitioned into a traditional C:\ drive (for the OS and applications) and a D:\ drive (for data/documents) . Of late I have had to increase the size of the C:\ partition from 30GB to 35GB and last night to 43GB . I have not been installing additional programs, my temp files are regularly deleted, but SOMETHING is eating up space on my C:\ drive . This morning my available space on C:\ has gone from 3 . 3GB to 2 . 92GB and all I have been doing in browsing PressF1 and recieving the odd email . Zonealarm Security Suite is on all the time and is up to date . Any ideas? Are there any tools that will allow easy analysis of this situation? |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 519002 | 2007-01-24 23:55:00 | What OS are you using? | stu161204 (123) | ||
| 519003 | 2007-01-24 23:58:00 | What OS are you using?Oops! XP Pro, SP2 - all up to date. | johcar (6283) | ||
| 519004 | 2007-01-25 00:31:00 | System Restore can take up considerable space if you've got it enabled. Use Disk Cleanup (Start > Run > cleanmgr) and click on the 'More Options' tab and choose to clear all system restore points apart from the most recent one. |
yzhu (9783) | ||
| 519005 | 2007-01-25 00:34:00 | Get tree size pro, great for checking where your hard drive space is going...... Do you use google earth? |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 519006 | 2007-01-25 00:39:00 | System Restore can take up considerable space if you've got it enabled. Use Disk Cleanup (Start > Run > cleanmgr) and click on the 'More Options' tab and choose to clear all system restore points apart from the most recent one.Cheers - that's given me back a chunk - back up to 4.77GB free. |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 519007 | 2007-01-25 00:41:00 | System Restore will only grow if you are installing applications!, something else is taking hard drive space. | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 519008 | 2007-01-25 00:41:00 | Get tree size pro, great for checking where your hard drive space is going . . . . . . Do you use google earth?Thanks I'll check Tree Size Pro out . No, haven't reinstalled Google earth since last lappie rebuild - it was a bit hungry :) |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 519009 | 2007-01-25 00:42:00 | Kill hibernation too if its ticked/enabled. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 519010 | 2007-01-25 00:56:00 | I myself use an old version of SpaceMonger Version1.4, from here... www.sixty-five.cc Its free and a great little tool to quickly see whats using how much space. Not as good as latest version, but for a freebee, not too bad. |
Nyuuji (5460) | ||
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