My hard drive filled

My hard drive is full but not because I downloaded large files, and I can't identify it as waste is that fills the disk. How can I clear the space?

You will see in my previous two answers that everything seems fine, except that I have no idea how the issues have been brought to rights.

I had run Defragmenter a few days ago, but it made no difference. I was about to follow your advice about system restore etc when I discovered that it was apparently useless.

My only concern is now that, as I have no idea why the problem arose, I also have no idea how to do to stop this happening again!

Nevertheless, thank you very much for the advice very detailed.

Tags: Windows

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Hard drive fills up fast

Original title: Decreases the memory:

I have xt pro on my cmp - very little, other than IE8, Word, Excel. Nothing great. Be "topped up" several times with disc 'restore' since the performance was slowing down. Gradually, the HARD drive fills up: after the last reading memory 30 GB charging used; 10 GB free. I think that xp is only about 1 GB - what am I doing wrong?

Ken

Thanks for all the suggestions. Tried and thought about them, but made no difference. However, I found the answer:

When you use the disc to 'restore' every time I was simply stack several operating systems on top of those already here. I have about a dozen versions or more I suspect No. 1 partition. This time, where do my last (I hope) restore today I paid more attention to writing when the options are available on the "formatting" the drive. Now, I completely formatted the Partition No. 1 (where I suspect that all versions of xp are kept) and pressed. Of course, the restoration has worked well and I now only ONE version of XP on my system. The display of 'properties' on the drive C: tells me now that I have less than 2 GB used and 28 GB FREE!

Result?

Thanks again for the suggestions - that made me think a little more deeply...

Ken R

hard drive fill by itself

I just bought a hp a6750f with 750 GB HDD 8 GB memory, quad processor works great, but it fills slowly with stuff 2 or 3 concerts a day, I think it's to get it online, CV Tech took control and just delete the temporary files, that is not the problem... I restored to factory settings and now 3 weeks later there are 120 exhausted concerts... I have nothing except a printer on this computer whence all this? Help, please...

Probably that Vista in system restore, is set to use a very high % of hard drive space. Most users to be able to limit it manually.

Guide HERE

And HERE

Hard drive fills up very fast Max to 109GiG. I'm running out of space. What is take up space?

I have a small hard drive 109Gig and there are very few programs that run on it. When I try to search for large file sizes I found in users and windows. Further research in these files does not reveal what is content. Where can I search in an attempt to reduce the space used or should I buy another hard drive? The system was backing for a long time, but recently, I have disabled back upward. I used restore a few months ago. Windows take the 22.7 Gig and users take 11Gig?

Thank you Ken

I think you're right for the size of the disk. It is just too small by today's standards. Fortunately, I have another hard drive which is a direct copy of the computer as a back up. I hope that I can copy my files to a larger drive and solve the problem.

Paul.

System Restore fills hard drive

I used Windows XP Home Edition for years, with no problems. However, in recent weeks, I noticed my hard drive filling up at a rate of almost 1 G new data per day. I didn't add all the new programs, so I suspected a Virus or a Trojan. I use Avast Anti-virus and keep SpyBot and SpywareBlaster running and updated. I ran full scans with these programs and found no problem. I even downloaded a copy of AVG anti-virus and done a scan with it problems... No.. Then, I came across a program called 'TreeSize' who did a real good job to tell me what's really on the hard drive. BIINGO! It seems that my system restore file increases by nearly 1 G per day. I had about 2 months, control in the system restore points, so I changed the settings about 25 g and lost most of my restore points... AND, my hard disk capacity has increased almost 20 g.

Windows has changed something in the month last about restoring the operating system? I've never seen this phenomenon until just last month. Now that I know what is eating my hard disk space, I can recover easily, but I think something has changed recently to cause this. The ONLY thing I added to my files in the month were updates of Windows.

Even after many years, I have only about 20 G on my hard drive, so it was unusual when I started to see the volume of data up to 40 G. This just started about 3 or 4 weeks... and I did not install new programs.

Now that I put the restore settings to 25G, I saw no repetition of this 'growth' in the past 2 or 3 days... so time will tell if this fixed my "whim".

As I said, you must set SR to 1 GB... No 25 GB.

I guess the sentence I have in bold above means that you have a separate partition for your data. You don't need restore the system monitor this partition (disc) at all. Retrieves a few pieces of Bert K site linked in my previous post (emphasis added):
- System Restore monitors changes to the system and saves the State of the system as a restore point.
- System Restore does not restore user data or documents, so it will not cause users to lose their files, email, browsing history or Favorites.
- System Restore monitors and restores a set of file system and application, the States of these files before the change of the archiving system. System Restore also records a snapshot of the registry (Note: some current registry values will persist) and some dynamic system files.
- Files that are monitored or excluded from the monitoring are specified in the file % windir%\system32\restore\Filelist.xml.
- To restore a system, System Restore undoes file changes made to the files monitored, taking over the State of the file at a time of the restore point selected. It replaces the current registry with one registered for the selected restore point.
If indeed you watched a "data disc" and it was the system restore on this drive that increased, it seems that if one of the applications, which stores the data on this disk does not respect the following recommendations:
- To make sure that your application has the behavior desired after a restore, follow these steps:
  - Be sure to use the extensions compatible with those used in the Filelist.xml file binary application key to protect. For more information, see Monitoring of file Extensions.
  - Do not use controlled types of extensions for files modified by the user. For example, if you name the file of personal data of a user using the .ini extension, the user may lose work because of a system restore.

Rash, the problems of computer control: use of 100% of the CPU, hard drive is filled Up, & drivers Drop Off - what happens?

My computer keep meeting the same types of problems faced by systems of many other people. My CPU goes to 100% use when I'm streaming a video. No matter if I use the Flash or HTML 5 player, the problem persists, my hard drive fills up, and now my Intel (r) 82801 PCI Bridge - 2448 driver is down, what happens? I come on this forum and find others looking for answers to problems of the same nature. I don't know any of these people, but we are the same kind of problems. The only link I know that we have is 'Internet '. I don't know if it's a virus or some other bad online. Anyone with computer knowledge can see another link that can be the cause of these problems? It would be a good start to solve these problems. Obviously, something is happening or something happening around these problems. Tips on how to find a common point or a fix would be much appreciated.

In order to diagnose your problem, we need run Windows performance toolkit, the instructions that are in this wiki

If you have any questions do not hesitate to ask

Please run the trace when you encounter the problem

How to set up the second hard drive

My Mac Pro has two, the hard drives of 1 TB. I had originally planned on the use of the second hard drive for Time Machine. However, instead of using Time Machine, I now save by cloning my first hard drive to an external hard drive using Carbon Copy Cloner. I did not use Time Machine in a year and do not expect that I have to use more.

My first hard drive fills up-I have about 150 GB unused on it, and with video editing I'm is squeezed. What is the best way to configure my system so that I can use my second, now sleeping, hard drive? Is it possible of them gang up together so that my system will behave as if there is a 2 TB HDD?

Thanks in advance.

Yes. It is called RAID.

For more information on how to do this, see https://www.tekrevue.com/tip/create-raid-el-capitan/

Save the files and format the hard drive?

I have a MacBook 2012 mid pro and the hard drive fills up with data and applications, I don't want anymore. So I want just to format the drive and install a fresh OS x and only the applications and the data I need. Is it possible to just copy the folders with the data I want to save... on an external drive?... like music, movies, Documents... then format my internal drive and load El Capitan. When can I then copy these files on the original drive and have things work the same or improve skills?... when using Photos and iTunes and iMovie? I do not use Time Capsule... cause he will restore a bunch of stuff I don't want. Has any tried this? or have better ideas?

Yes, you can if you wish. Don't forget some features such as the preferences settings will be not recorded, unless you know where to look. As for iTunes and Photos you must register the complete library of media files.

Replacement for 2nd hard drive

My HP Pavilion Media Center m7790e has 2 hard drives, a main hard drive 320, and the 2nd drive hard 160 GB (Seagate ST316081 1AS SCSI) which I use to backup my My Documents folder and to store multimedia files TV. My operating system is Vista Home Premium. My problem is that the 2nd hard drive fills up very fast and I need more storage. I'm unable to use an external hard drive that is due to the fact that my USB 2.0 ports cannot be upgraded to 3.0 and I think that the speed of USB 2.0 file transfer would be boring. I considered a 640 GB pocket media drive, but HP said that a media player of Pocket would be no faster than an external hard drive connected via a USB 2.0 port. I guess the drive hard internal speeds are much better. I don't think I can add a 3rd hard drive so I plan to replace the 160 GB with a 500 GB hard drive or a disk more. Appropriate recommendations would be appreciated. If there are other mods I should improve file transfer speeds, I'm all ears. Thanks in advance.

Bill

Sorry I have not responded earlier. There is a huge difference between a SATA connection and a SCSI connection. Unless you have installed a third-party interface card, I don't think that your computer has a SCSI connection.

Your computer does not have a SATA III interface, but the reader must be compatible with your machine, similar to the way USB 3.0 interfaces are retro-compatible with 2.0 devices. They simply will work as fast as possible in the faster connection. But this does not mean that you should not throw the disc the fastest as you can in your computer. Unless there is a huge price for one of these drives premium, I would use them rather than paying for something with dated technology.

How can I remove old updates from windows to prevent their fill my hard drive?

How can I remove old updates from windows to prevent their fill my hard drive?

You don't want to. Otherwise, why would have installed their in the first place? They are updated for security. Thema alone.

My hard drive is filling up all the available space on my hard drive

Original title: my drive is 'eat' himself!

Something happens in my system which occupies all the available space on my hard drive.

I deleted everything that I possible can, but as soon as I create a space that it disappears.

There is apparently a function involving my e-mail archives or my installation "restore."

Recreate the data but do not delete the file/data who is who replaces it. What has

happened in the past, but at that time, it was the result of my control one inadvertently

email replication function... this time I got nothing done to cause this duplication of work.

When it started to affect my system this time I looked for things to remove and found

many of my emails in the "sent" folder had been duplicated. I immediately removed all

These duplicates and has acquired an important place but in a short period of time the

disc had been filled again.

I ran anti-virus (McAfee) and combating malicious programs (Malwarebytes) without finding

anything that can be causing my problem.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Hello

Try the methods provided following and check if that helps:

Method 1:

Try to run the disk cleanup tool and check if it helps:

Description of the tool in Windows XP disk cleanup

http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/310312

Method 2:

Read the following article and see if it helps

Computer viruses: description, prevention, and recovery

http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/129972

Also check out the link and check if it helps:

http://www.Microsoft.com/atwork/maintenance/speed.aspx

Urgent please help: How can I find on what fills my hard drive?

My drive C guard fills, and I don't know why. Yesterday, I removed more than 40 GB of files and delete a lot more (I emptied the Recycle Bin). In the last 4 hours, filled an another 30 GB and I'm now in the red zone (5 GB in the last twenty minutes!). I only kept a very small Word document on the hard drive.

It only started past recently, in the last two weeks or more. I am on Windows Vista and I have McAfee. I recently completed a full scan and nothing significant has come.

I have only 5 GB on my C drive on the left, and there is nothing more that I can remove it. How can I find out what does this and how do I that to solve this problem?

Any emergency assistance will be greatly appreciated!

Thank you.

Free disk space

Last updated 18/01/2014

Content
- To see how much space you have used and free
- To see where the files are too much space
- Disk Cleanup
- System restore
- Fix the basket
- Fix temporary Internet files
- Delete files in the system and the folder Temp of Service Profiles
- Check the size of the swap file
- Disable the hibernation
- Compact the Windows databases use various
- Delete the files updated by the Service Pack
- Move your Documents
- Remove saved files created by Photo Gallery
- Which extends the size of the disk
- Compress files
- Turn off the low disk space warnings
- Boost disk cleanup
To see how much space you have used and free

Start - All Programs - Accessories- Click with the right button on command prompt and choose run as administrator. Type (or copy and paste by clicking in the command prompt window and choose Paste).

For the system drive

WMIC volume where (DriveLetter = '% lecteur_systeme %') are legend, capacity, freespace List

For all readers

WMIC volume get/all, freespace, the ability, the legend

If you want to store this info on your desktop

WMIC /append:"%userprofile%\desktop\Free on disk space" volume get Caption, freespace format:htable

To open double click on Free Disk Space on your desk or type

Start "" "%userprofile%\desktop\Free report.HTML of disk space.

Then come back here after cleaning and repeat these commands to see the difference.

If for any reason, the wmic command does not work, use these two commands. Both take a lot of time.

% Lecteur_systeme % - one defrag

or

dir %systemdrive%\*.*/a/s

To see where the files are too much space

It lists the number of files and the size of the folders on your drive. Each command is a subset, so you can run it better.

Start - All Programs - Accessories - right on command prompt and choose run as administrator. Type (or copy and paste by clicking in the command prompt window and choose Paste).

Then configure the command prompt. Right-click on the tab of the titlebar - Properties - Layout command prompt - and enter 1000 screen buffer size height and 43 (or 50) to Window Dimensions height. Change the color (color tab) and the police (police tab), if you want.

To see the size of the folders in Documents, excluding images, video, or music files.

for /f "Skip = 2 tokens = 3 ' set doc = A %%A in ('Reg query"HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders"/v"Personal"")

for /f "usebackq tokens = 2 * delims =" %i IN ("dir"% doc"/ a/s ^ |") "." findstr/i/v "\/"^|findstr/l/v "photos video" ') @echo %j & echo. "

To see the size of the folders in the music.

for /f "Skip = 2 tokens = 4" %A in ('Reg query "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" /v 'My music' ") set Doc = A %

for /f "usebackq tokens = 2 * delims =" %i IN ("dir"% doc"/ a/s ^ |") "." findstr/i/v "-/"') @echo %j & echo. "."

To see the size of the image files.

for /f "Skip = 2 tokens = 4" %A in (' Reg query "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" "My pictures" /v ") set Doc = A %

for /f "usebackq tokens = 2 * delims =" %i IN ("dir"% doc"/ a/s ^ |") "." findstr/i/v "-/"') @echo %j & echo. "."

To see the size of the files in the video.

for /f "Skip = 2 tokens = 4" %A in ('Reg query "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" /v 'My videos' ") set Doc = A %

for /f "usebackq tokens = 2 * delims =" %i IN ("dir"% doc"/ a/s ^ |") "." findstr/i/v "-/"') @echo %j & echo. "."

To see the size of the files on the desktop.

for /f "Skip = 2 tokens = 3 ' set doc = A %%A in ('Reg query"HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders"/v"Desktop"")

for /f "usebackq tokens = 2 * delims =" %i IN ("dir"% doc"/ a/s ^ |") "." findstr/i/v "-/"') @echo %j & echo. "."

To see the size of the files in the Windows folder.

for /f "usebackq tokens = 2 * delims =" %i IN ("'%windir%' dir /a /s ^ |") "." findstr/i/v "-/"') @echo %j & echo. "."

To see the size of the files in the Program Files folder.

for /f "usebackq tokens = 2 * delims =" %i IN ("'%ProgramFiles%' dir /a /s ^ |") "." findstr/i/v "-/"') @echo %j & echo. "."

Disk Cleanup

To run Disk Cleanup, normal is to click with the right button on the drive in my computer (Start menu - computer), then Properties - general tab - Disk Cleanup button.

Another way is menu Start - All Programs - Accessories - System - Disk Cleanup tools.

Disk Cleanup can be started from the command line.

Start - All Programs - Accessories - right on command prompt and choose run as administrator. Type (or copy and paste by clicking in the command prompt window and choose Paste).

To make your primary drive.

cleanmgr letter

Choose which lead to do.

Cleanmgr

See the last section of this post to see how to performance of disk cleanup.

System restore

With disk cleanup displays above the Other Options tab. You can delete all but the last System Restore point and see if that is too much space.

System Restore uses 15% of the space normally. Change click Start - All Programs - Accessories - right on command prompt and choose run as administrator. Type Regedit and navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore\cfg

Double click on DiskPercent and click on decimal and change the value to the desired percentage,

You can change the command prompt.

Start - All Programs - Accessories - right on command prompt and choose run as administrator. Type (or copy and paste by clicking in the command prompt window and choose Paste).

To see the size of the system restore folder.

You don't normally have access to this folder. You will need to take possession, allow administrators to permission, then the size of the query.

takeown /f "%systemdrive%\System Volume Information" / a r d y

ICACLS "%systemdrive%\System Volume Information" / grant administrators: f, t, c, q

dir "%systemdrive%\System Volume Information" / a/s

To see the current percentage

Reg query "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore\cfg" /v DiskPercent

It is in hexadecimal. The numbers are 0-9 and a-f. So 0xf is 15. 0x5 is 5, 0 x 9 is 9, 0xa is 10, 0 x 14 is 20.

To set a different value.

You can use decimal values to set. This affects 10% (in bold in the example and the last item in the line).

Tracking Add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore\cfg" /v DiskPercent /t REG_DWORD /f /d 10

To repair the system restore, file delete and restart the system restore.

SC stop vss

takeown /f "%systemdrive%\System Volume Information" / a r d y

ICACLS "%systemdrive%\System Volume Information" / grant administrators: f, t, c, q

e "%systemdrive%\System Volume Information" / q/s

SC start vss

Fix the basket

Sometimes, files get lost in the trash. Remove the storage folders. It will be automatically re-created next time you delete a file or open the Recycle Bin. It will remove the trash and the files it contains for all users.

Empty the trash.

Start - All Programs - Accessories - right on command prompt and choose run as administrator. Type (or copy and paste by clicking in the command prompt window and choose Paste).

To see the size of the files in the Recycle Bin

It must have one or no files inside if you work. There should be a directory (folder) by user.

dir % systemdrive%\$RECYCLE. BIN\ *. * /a /s

To reset the trash

e % systemdrive%\$RECYCLE. BIN/s/q

Fix temporary Internet files

Sometimes, files get lost in the temporary internet files folder. Delete the files. It will be automatically recreated the next time download you. It will remove the current user only.

Start - All Programs - Accessories - right on command prompt and choose run as administrator. Type (or copy and paste by clicking in the command prompt window and choose Paste).

To see the temporary internet files size empty files folder

RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl, ClearMyTracksByProcess 8

dir ' %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\ *.» "*" '%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStore\*.*' / a/s

Then delete.

Close Internet Explorer and the Explorer first. Some files may not remove at the moment, they can be deleted later.

"%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files" del /s /q

also the DOM store, similar to TIF.

"%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStore" del /s /q

So to see the new size.

dir ' %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\ *.» "*" '%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStore\*.*' / a/s

To see the size of the cache, type the following

Start - All Programs - Accessories - right on command prompt and choose run as administrator. Type (or copy and paste by clicking in the command prompt window and choose Paste).

Reg query /v "Settings\5.0\Cache\Content Software" CacheLimit valid

Use the calculator to convert hexadecimal into decimal. Start the Calculator (Start - All Programs - Accessories - calculator) and choose the menu display - scientific, then the menu display - Hex. Enter the value returned above. Menu display - decimal. To convert windows units divide by 1024 for kilobytes, divide by 1024 megabytes.

Located between 50 MB and 250 MB. You can use decimal here. The unit is expressed in kilobytes. Here it is 250 megabytes (250 000 x 1024 bytes)

Add tracking 'Software Settings\5.0\Cache\Content' v CacheLimit valid /t Reg_DWord /d 250000 f

Delete files in the system and the folder Temp of Service Profiles

The system temp folder is only used when no one connects. It is rarely used but never cleaned. Some services have their own temporary folder which is also cleaned.

Start - All Programs - Accessories - right on command prompt and choose run as administrator. Type (or copy and paste by clicking in the command prompt window and choose Paste).

To the list

dir c:\windows\temp C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Local\Temp C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\Temp/a/s

To remove

del C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Local\Temp\*.* C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\Temp\*.* c:\windows\temp\*.*/s/f/q

Check the size of the swap file

As a rule generally you want to your swap file slightly larger than the amount of memory that you have. It develops automatically but spread automatically. If you use hungery memory programs as this video editing should be bigger. If too big you can reduce and rush of space can be moved to another drive.

Start - All Programs - Accessories - right on command prompt and choose run as administrator. Type (or copy and paste by clicking in the command prompt window and choose Paste).

To see what was your use

WMIC pagefile get List

To see the size of the file on disk

dir /a c:\pagefile.sys

To change the size or change the road see change the size of virtual memory in Start - Help and Support.

Disable the hibernation

The file shows up is the same size of installed memory. If this is not the case, turn off the computer in hibernation and save a lot of disk space.

Start - All Programs - Accessories - right on command prompt and choose run as administrator. Type (or copy and paste by clicking in the command prompt window and choose Paste).

To see if it is on

If the file will be found. If off the file won't be there.

dir %systemdrive%\hiberfil.sys /a

To turn off

powercfg-h off

Make a u-turn

powercfg-h on

Compact the Windows databases use various

You can compact the various databases that Windows uses. This is the Windows Update, Windows Search, and certificates of security, Windows Mail, Windows Contacts, Windows, Windows Live and Internet Explorer ver 10 applications calendar.

Close Windows Mail and Internet Explorer. Wait a minute for Internet Explorer release locks of sound files.

See how much space taking up type which is below and note the total size (because it scrolls away).

Start - All Programs - Accessories- Click with the right button on command prompt and choose Run As Administrator. Type (or copy and paste by clicking in the command prompt window and choose Paste).

dir c:\*.edb c:\*.msmessagestore c:\WebCacheV*.dat c:\catdb/a/s

Then at compact

SC stop wuauserv

stop bits SC

SC stop wsearch

SC stop cryptsvc

for c:\ /r %A in (*.edb *.msmessagestore WebCacheV*.dat catdb *.) do esentutl.exe /p "%A" / o

for c:\ /r %A in (*.edb *.msmessagestore WebCacheV*.dat catdb *.) do esentutl.exe /d "%A".

SC start cryptsvc

SC start wsearch

SC start bits

SC start wuauserv

Then to delete some temporary files.

del c:\*.integ.raw c:\TEMPDFRG*.edb/s

To see the new size and compare it to the old size

dir c:\*.edb c:\*.msmessagestore c:\WebCacheV*.dat c:\catdb/a/s

If a program has a file open, you can use this procedure to find out which program.

openfiles/local on

Reset

openfiles/query /v | findstr /i "WebCacheV [0-9] *------catdb \.edb \.msmessagestore .dat".

Delete the files updated by the Service Pack

See how much space taking up type which is below and note the total size (because it scrolls away). Also, note that the total is higher than it actually is.

This will remove the ability to uninstall service packs.

According to the service pack that Windows was provided with you can have both, one or none of these two files.

Start - All Programs - Accessories - right on command prompt and choose run as administrator. Type (or copy and paste by clicking in the command prompt window and choose Paste).

dir /a /s c:\Windows\WinSxS

Then type

Vsp1cln.exe

COMPCLN.exe

To see the new size and compare it to the old size

c:\windows\WinSxS dir /a /s

Move your Documents

If you have another disk, you can move the documents folder to it.

Click with the right button on your Documents (or pictures, etc.) Office, videos, Contacts,) the tab file - Properties - location - move.

Delete the thumbnail and icon Caches

These files can contain thumbnails or icons of files deleted a long time ago. The files will be recreated if necessary.

Start - All Programs - Accessories - right on command prompt and choose run as administrator. Type (or copy and paste by clicking in the command prompt window and choose Paste). The desktop and the start menu will disappear briefly.

To see the size

dir "% userprofile%\AppData\Local\*.db" "% userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\*.db" /a

then remove

Taskkill /im explorer.exe/f
attrib - r s h '% userprofile%\AppData\Local\*.db '.
attrib - r s h '% userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\*.db '.
del "% userprofile%\AppData\Local\*.db".
del "% userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\*.db".
Explorer

to check the new size

dir "% userprofile%\AppData\Local\*.db" "% userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\*.db" /a

Remove saved files created by Photo Gallery

Photo Gallery Windows makes a copy of any file that you are editing. Click Start - All Programs - Accessories - (or press the Windows key + R). Type

Images of the hull: original

Delete the ones you don't want.

Which extends the size of the disk

If all the space on the disk has not all been used it is possible to extend your drive.

Start - All Programs - Accessories - right on command prompt and choose run as administrator. Type (or copy and paste by clicking in the command prompt window and choose Paste).

DiskPart

then type

Select the c volume:

Then type to see in size

the list volume

then (it will work if possible or not as appropriate)

extend

type to display the new size

the list volume

then type exit

output

If you want advice on the extension of the partition type the following and paste the result back

DiskPart

list disk

the list volume

Select disk 0

partition from the list

Select disk 1

partition from the list

output

To copy the final text right click in the window - Mark , then select the text and press enter.

Compress files

There are two ways to compress files in windows. Zip files and built-in file compression. It's built-in file compression. For more information on compression type zip in Start - Help and Support .

Photos, music and video are already compressed. They can get larger if Windows tries to compress it any further. Also usually a bad idea to compress system files.

If you have files of worksheet they can very well be compressed. If you have files, installation files, they can also be good candidates. Web pages are also good candidates.

In Windows Explorer, blue file names means Tablet (it is the file system compression not aka zip files compressed files). Green filename means Encrypted.

To disable file names colored, in Explorer - Tools menu (Alt + T)- display tab and then clear the check box for Show encrypted or compressed NTFS in color .

Windows compression, encryption and security to work for the most part by applying attributes to a folder and the files in the folder inherit the folder.

If you have all the files appropriate for compression, find them in solution, made Explorer right click - Properties - general -Advanced button tab - Compress contents to save disk space. Choose to apply to all files and folders when asked.

To use a command line to compress the files in the Favorites folder.

Start - All Programs - Accessories - right on command prompt and choose run as administrator. Type (or copy and paste by clicking in the command prompt window and choose Paste).

compact/c /s:"%userprofile%\Favorites." *

Put in Favorites to compress files added

compact/c /s:"%userprofile%\Favorites.

To view the details of the compression of the Favorites folder

Compact '% userprofile%\Favorites\*.* '.

Turn off the low disk space warnings

To disable the function to display the disk low space warnings.

Start - All Programs - Accessories - right on command prompt and choose run as administrator. Type (or copy and paste by clicking in the command prompt window and choose Paste).

Tracking Add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer" v "NoLowDiskSpaceChecks" /t REG_DWORD /d 1 f

gpupdate/force

Boost disk cleanup
- Operation of disk cleanup
- Schedule disk cleanup
- Creating custom cleaners
To see a list of products of cleaning disk cleanup.

Start - All Programs - Accessories - right on command prompt and choose run as administrator. Type (or copy and paste by clicking in the command prompt window and choose Paste).

@echo. & @echo list of cleaners&@echo = & FOR /F "usebackq tokens = 8 delims =-' %i IN ('reg query 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches'") @echo %i
```
 List of cleaners
 ================
 Active Setup Temp Folders
 Content Indexer Cleaner
 Downloaded Program Files
 Hibernation File
 Internet Cache Files
 Memory Dump Files
 Microsoft_Event_Reporting_2.0_Temp_Files
 Offline Pages Files
 Old ChkDsk Files
 Previous Installations
 Recycle Bin
 Setup Log Files
 System error memory dump files
 System error minidump files
 Temporary Files
 Temporary Setup Files
 Temporary Sync Files
 Thumbnail Cache
 Upgrade Discarded Files
 Windows Error Reporting Archive Files
 Windows Error Reporting Queue Files
 Windows Error Reporting System Archive Files
 Windows Error Reporting System Queue Files
 WLX Thumbnail Cache
```

I get the message of low disk space. I bought a 1 TB external hard drive and I want to know how to see what fills my c drive.

I have a laptop. I need the computer for class of models. I have the elite external hard drive WD book. I just want to know how to find out what fills my disk c. I have a lot of pictures.

Hello

To see what fills your disk space on C:, try this free program:

http://www.Jam-software.com/treesize_free/

See you soon.

p.s. Check to you sure it is C: and D: not that you get the message on.

D: drives are normally the recovery Partitions, are 5-15GBs and should not be bothered with except to make recovery disks of.

Drive hard keeps fills, using CC Cleaner & Deffrag for a few weeks now. I do go down, & then it fills again! Help, please.

I'm running Vista 64, SP2 and my hard drive keeps filling.

I used CC Cleaner and Deffrag program for a few weeks now.

(just the CC Cleaner on its own takes me awhile because I don't want to delete everything I shouldn't)

I have moved away from home to the office and checked to see if there are "too many connections (?)" just in case it's something in the process. Honestly, I can't say if there are too many?

I know that I don't want to lose the ability to remote into my office... so I leave them alone.

I wanted to delete some 'hidden' files $Recycle... but am concerned that my operation files original files are mixed in the files?

Is there a way to return to the top... few of the restoration copies?

AND... How can I stop this from happening? I spent hours trying to manage it.

It comes down, then it fills again!

Help, please.

Hello MetisLight,

Here is a link to another user having the same problem. Have you tried to try the steps listed? Please let us know status.

Microsoft Answers:

http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/windows_vista-performance/harddrive-filling-up/e9b60b0c-6b9d-4e12-85d9-9a875cc1aa8a

PC DM files: my hard drive is currently filled by PC DM files in my folder/Public user folder. How can I safely remove the right files in this folder?

My hard drive is currently filled by PC DM files in my folder/Public user folder. How can I safely remove the right files in this folder? Vista Home Premium 64 bit is my os.

Hi templar_39,

DM (Message Delivery) file types are not Windows files, they can be generated by a third-party program.

This particular file type is often associated with audio data and can be hosted on some cell phones to be used as ringtones or multimedia clips. To my knowledge, these files can be generated by your mobile phone.

Note: you can go ahead and remove these files only if you notice that the files do not contain any important information.

If this happens without connect you all devices (like mobile PHONES), this may be a virus or malware activity. You can run a virus scan to get rid of them

Step 1: A scanner online for any threat and try to correct

http://OneCare.live.com/site/en-us/Center/cleanup.htm

Thank you, and in what concerns:

Ajay K

Microsoft Answers Support Engineer

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