Duplicate in Vista files

Hello!

I use Windows Vista on my laptop. Currently I have about 8 GB of space on my drive of 70 Gig. There is no way that I have that much data on my machine...

My question is:

Is it possible for me to check and see if the files are be duplicated or where some of these massive files are stored? I don't really have enough experience to do anything other than searching through individual files & folders and there must be a better way, right?

My machine has really slowed down recently, and the lack of hard drive space is disconcerting. I know that probably doesn't have much to do with the performance of the machine itself, but I would like to address that first.

Thanks for your help,

Gfunc

One thing to try, if you have not already is disk cleanup.  Please follow the steps below.

Click the Start ORB, type disk cleanup in the Search box and press enter

Disk Cleanup will scan your system and find all the files that do not exist to delete.

Once the scan is finished it will tell you how much space it will be able to release.

Click OK

Click on delete files in the Disk Cleanup dialog box.

Disk Cleanup will present the process of cleaning your hard drive.

We have also provided information on the system restore and restore points that may be very large files.

How space hard disk System Restore require?

To store restore points, you need at least 300 megabytes (MB) of free space on each hard disk with the system on Protection. System Restore can use up to 15 percent of the space on each disk. As the amount of space fills up with restore points, System Restore deletes older restore points to make room for the new.

System Restore will not work on hard disks smaller than 1 gigabyte (GB).

http://windowshelp.Microsoft.com/Windows/en-us/help/517d3b8e-3379-46C1-B479-05b30d6fb3f01033.mspx#ERAAC

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