Hard Drive C full disk cleanup does not

My hard drive C has been fine for a long time.  Then all of a sudden in a period of about a year he started fill by itself.  I would deal with the problem with the disk cleaning and remove programs and files is no longer needed, but every time I did that it would end up a bit more than before (it would mean 40%, then fill up to 65%, then disk clean he would stay to 45% full).

Now, I have 110 MB of space on a 30 GB C drive, and I've done everything I can.  I ran thousands of times drive cleanup, I have eliminated all the programs that I don't use, and I transferred all my music and movies on my D drive (which is fine).
I ran several scans, but there seems to be no worm.  I can't do system restore because I did a restore a year ago.
Is there something I can do, or is editing and re - install Vista my only option?

Hello

To add to the view of Mick.

Look with in the settings of your programs to change to the D drive. You can also copy existing data to D:, just copy it and make sure everything is OK before you delete it on C: and make a backup.

How to change the default behavior for Windows save as or open location
http://www.Raymond.CC/blog/archives/2008/02/29/how-to-change-Windows-default-save-as-or-open-location/

Change my the the Documents folder default location path in XP and Vista
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/11/25/change-my-documents-folder-default-location-path-in-XP-and-Vista/comment-page-1/

Move or change Vista Documents, pictures, music, videos, games and other personal folders location
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/11/25/move-or-change-Vista-documents-pictures-music-videos-games-and-other-personal-folders-location/

You can also delete the D: partition and enlarge your C: driver. (Save anything from D: first)
Then you can continue to use the machine you are now. (Are backups and restore points on D:)
If so they will have to be changed if you delete D: entirely.)

How to remove and extend a Partition with Vista disk management
http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/95418-disk-management-delete-extend.html

I hope this helps.
Rob - bicycle - Mark Twain said it is good.

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