A pop-up window recently appeared warning me that my hard drive was almost full and, on checking, I found I had less than 2GB (out of 37GB) free space left! This came as a surprise as I had not added any new programmes for ages however I carried out "disc clean-up", removed some large rarely used programmes, purchased and ran "Wincleaner" as well as "Ad-Aware" and "AVG Antispyware" but, to my surprise these actions did not appear to free up any significant space and I am still getting warnings! I tried to "defrag" but was told there was insufficient space to carry out this process (it apparently requires 15% space and I have less than 2%!) On looking at the defrag. analysis it appears that the most space is being taken up by "Contiguous" files (whatever that means!) and very little by "Unmoveable" files. So why can't I free up any space? Any help or suggestions from you experts out there would be gratefully received.
2007-02-09 00:35:01 · 9 answers · asked by Mike M 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Make sure your recycle bin is empty, move all of your pictures to one folder and get rid of any 'unnecessary' pictures. Go through all of your documents and delete any that are not needed.
If you feel safe enough, go through your add/delete files in your control panel and remove any unnecessary programs ***IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT THE PROGRAM IS...LEAVE IT ALONE!!!****
after you are all done with that, go to start, programs, accessories, system tools and do your disk cleanup. Once you remove all those unnecessary files, then do a defrag.
If this doesn't free up any space, then start again by going through every program that you have. If you can't find anything else to delete, then I definately recommend upgrading.
Other than that I don't know what to tell you, I have 100 GB memory and only 9% of it is used and I do graphics work so theres got to be something (ie games) that is taking up so much memory
2007-02-09 00:42:06 · answer #1 · answered by Athera78 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-02 23:33:50 · answer #2 · answered by bonanno 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only way to free up a significant amount of space on your hard drive is to delete files. That's it. There are some advanced ways to compress certain files but that doesn't help very much. Also you should consider getting a larger hard drive, since 37GB is quite small these days (perhaps you are on a laptop), and harddrives are getting cheaper.
2007-02-09 00:38:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Best thing to do is to delete all temporary files first, basically goto c:\windows and delete all folders that are in the format $NtUninstallKBxxxxx$ and other folders that start and end with $ sign in this folder, but do it CAREFULLY.
Also, I've found that if you have automatic updates enabled it sroes temporary files in C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download which I have deleted and have yet to find a problem with, and also c:\windows\temp contents can be cleared easily enough.
If you are using PeerGuardian, there is a log file it creates which ever ends, if you delete this file from c:\program files\peerguardian it will create a new one that's way smaller.
2007-02-09 02:35:59 · answer #4 · answered by sephiroth555999 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Get an external USB drive.
Just bought one from pc world for £79 and it is 320 Gig. You just plug it it and off you go.
Drag and drop your files onto it (then delete them on your c drive as this is a copy not move), to free up space until you can defrag
2007-02-09 00:47:46 · answer #5 · answered by Bill N 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Programs don't generally take up that much space on your HD. If you have lots of MP3, photos or video clips they will take up lots of space. If you have a CD or DVD burner try burning those files to disk (move them off your HD) to free up space on your PC.
2007-02-09 00:44:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Boot up in safe mode and run scandisk to check that deleted files are not still recorded on the disk and to check for bad (unusable) disk areas
2007-02-09 04:12:28 · answer #7 · answered by rmn_tech 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
re-install Windows
2007-02-09 00:40:27 · answer #8 · answered by tootee_2611 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had the same problem. Add some memory.
2007-02-09 00:38:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋