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Mitch
23-07-2004, 07:57
Playing on my laptop earlier, I found I had only 1.5GB free on a 40GB HD, but couldn't find what was clogging the space up.

I had tried copying a few DVDs last week so thought it may be temp files for that, but couldn't find anything on Nero.

I did a disk cleanup and system restore, which freed up 5 GB, then another restore from a couple of weeks ago and now I have 9.

How do I go about finding and removing the rest?

Cheers for any help.
Dave_S
23-07-2004, 08:10
Easiest way to find out, if you don't have any disk mapping software is to run a search and choose files larger than 10MB for instance, then have a scroll through and see whats there :)

Dave
Mitch
23-07-2004, 08:11
Cheers Dave, I'll give it a go :thumbs:
ScoobyDoo
23-07-2004, 08:13
Get Treesize (http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml) and do a full search on C:, it'll show each folder and content by size.

Very good free app :thumbs:
Vez
23-07-2004, 08:13
It'll be your temporary internet files, this place EATS disc space!!!!
Dave_S
23-07-2004, 08:18
Get Treesize (http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml) and do a full search on C:, it'll show each folder and content by size.

Very good free app :thumbs:

Thats what I meant by disk mapping software, that exact app actually :D

Dave
JB
23-07-2004, 09:58
It'll be your temporary internet files, this place EATS disc space!!!!
It certainly does :nod:
Mitch
23-07-2004, 12:41
Treesize link won't initiate the download for some reason. The readme text works, but that's it. Any ideas?
Morf
23-07-2004, 18:09
Got SequoiaView on this pc and is pretty good :thumbs:
http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/
Mitch
23-07-2004, 18:50
Picked up all sorts of viruses on my desktop today, top computer day for me :rolleyes:

Tried Stinger but it didn't get rid, and now mine goes to some porn site whenever I open Internet Explorer. (And I don't even use the net for porn anymore!!)
Morf
23-07-2004, 18:57
Try Spybot search & destroy and Ad-ware
ONION
23-07-2004, 19:00
have you checked what programs are installed?

go to settings folder, and add/remove prgrams.
then scroll through and see the size of each prog.

UT2004 on my system is just over 5.5gb in size!!
then i have all the other software etc
ive used up about 40gb of space just with the programs i use.
Infinity
23-07-2004, 21:00
Get Treesize (http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml) and do a full search on C:, it'll show each folder and content by size.

Very good free app :thumbs:
Quite a handy little piece of software, that :nod:

Jut
Mitch
23-07-2004, 21:07
Try Spybot search & destroy and Ad-ware

Got a link, mate? :thumbs:
Morf
23-07-2004, 21:15
http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/ and http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html :D Be sure to update them :)
Mitch
23-07-2004, 21:40
Cheers dude, trying them now:D
Mitch
23-07-2004, 21:56
Well, that seems to have sorted this one, the laptop can wait.
Cheers!!:D
ScoobyDoo
23-07-2004, 22:35
while your at it install SpywareBlaster and stop the spyware installing in the first place!

Block active x exploits etc

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
Mitch
24-07-2004, 06:38
Will do that too!!

Cheers.
Mitch
10-08-2004, 08:33
Now that is sorted, while I'm on the net, every few pages I get the "this page cannot be displayed" page up. It is really annoying because if I'm on a forum page and just typed a load, it dumps it and I can't get it back. I have started copying and pasting in case it drops out when I've submitted a message, but it's not a solution. It also disconnects and reconnects MSN all the time.

If I disconnect and reconnect to the net, it works again for a while. I'm on Pipex, BTW but have had no problems with it before.

Also (I'm nearly done!), my computer is running really slowly. I've ditched all my temp files, but am not sure what else I can do to speed it up. I had a message about virtual memory, but can't remember what it was:D

Any help would be appreciated :thumbs: :nod: