um...shouldn't I have more space?

[Vinya]

soooo apparently my laptop only has like 3.75 GB space left, and my computer can hold something like 18 GB or so. WHAT THE HELL IS TAKING UP THIS SPACE? I know for a fact that I have like 2.5 GB worth of music, but thats about the only major things that I know of. There really isn't a lot on my computer, so I'm worried.

Also, after I let my brother borrow my laptop for awhile these new filey thingies appeared in the Local Disk (C:) file thingy. From what I can tell, it must be something like AVG files, but shouldn't they be in a folder and not helter skelter hanging out by themselves? I don't remember seeing the folder like this before.

heeeeeeeeeelllllllllpppppppppp meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[eek]

Well it's either those extra files or (perhaps more likely) the amount of space that's been set aside for system restore.

[Randalf]

I was curious about this too.. I've got 33gb and 7gb left... 4141mb I see is for system restore, but still? Only like 2gb of music as well..

Try running ccleaner (check download.com) vinya... that cleared like 500mb for me.

[Vinya]

how did you check what was set aside for system restore?

[eek]

Right-click My Computer -> Properties -> System Restore tab -> Settings.

[Vinya]

thanks eek

also: for some reason after deleting some programs and stuff (I probably screwed my computer up hella bad but oh well) most of my folders have two new files in them; desktop.ini and thumbs.db can I go ahead and delete those? Where did they come from?

Also also; for some reason I can't delete certain files or folders because "I'm not authorized" or "the file is currently in use" even though its not. How do I delete it?


okay system restore says I have 2288 MB put aside for that....so I'm still at a loss for why so much space is used

[Vinya]

also also also: in the hard drive folder under properties would it help to check "compress files" or whatever? that wouldn't cause any problems, would it?

[attrebus]

Thumbs.db is created when you view the folder as thumbnails and can be deleted. Dunno about Desktop.ini

You could try something like this:

foldersize.sourceforge.net/about.html

Also: Don't compress your HDD. Nothing good ever comes of it.

[Vinya]

ARGH NOTHING SEEMS TO BE WORKING! *goes insane*

[Randalf]

if you arent the administrator (on my pc, I am, my moms account isn't) then some files you can't delete...

Also some files run in the background.. to end them ctrl+alt+delete then processes then do end process on the ones you want to delete (can be rather confusing ) don't end exploror

[Vinya]

randalf said:

if you arent the administrator (on my pc, I am, my moms account isn't) then some files you can't delete...

Also some files run in the background.. to end them ctrl+alt+delete then processes then do end process on the ones you want to delete (can be rather confusing ) don't end exploror

but I don't know what half of those processes are...what if they are important!

its my laptop so I'm the admin, but even so.....

[Slipper Eater]

SequoiaView. DL it and it'll show you what's taking up your space.

[Randalf]

vinyahuinewen said:

but I don't know what half of those processes are...what if they are important!

its my laptop so I'm the admin, but even so.....

They reset upon restart, so if you stop the process of something important (and that you don't want to delete) then it will come back on when you power off then on.

Even if you end explorer, it comes back.

[lucia]

Ummm... how is the drive formatted? Some tend to divide the space up weirdly or something... I read that somewhere...

[Ratwar]

Vinya, if it is still giving you a problem, try restarting the computer in safe mod and deleting the files then.

[Osama Bin Laden]

Defragging the computer helps too. Not a lot, but it makes it run faster, and cleans up some space.

[Vinya]

well after messing with it....and a horribly heartbreaking (and stressful) ordeal about two weeks ago where I thought I would have to reformat my hard drive, my computer has 5 GB free.