Drive C appears full?

My C drive shows that I have 650 MB of memory left out of 20 G.  When I add the memory of my files on my C drive, it's only about 5G.  How can I find on which occupies the rest of the memory?  I regularly use disk cleanup and defraged the drive C. My hard drive is partitioned into 4 drives.

Hello

In addition to the operating system files (which can actually take between 12-15 GB), space is reserved for the restoration of the system, the swap file, temp files, etc. 20 GB is far too small for an installation of Vista for an average user, you won't even have room for a handful of programs. In addition, you need 10 to 15% of free space on the disc to allow other functions (defragmentation, expansion of demand, etc.). Your real solution is a greater volume of installation. Good luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Crazy" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

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