Mystery of memory which disappears!

I am running Vista and in recent weeks on 5 or 6 GB of memory are mysteriously disappear out of my C drive! Where are they going? I use Norton Antivirus and it reports no problems after complete analysis. I use very few programs on the computer and certainly none which would require as much memory! Does anyone have an idea what is happening? Shortly, I'll run out of space on the hard drive!

Thank you very much

~ Kevin

Hello

Run DiskCleanup - start - all programs - Accessories - System Tools - Disk Cleanup

You may want to transfer some data, images or documents on removable media such
as the USB keys, USB (my choice) or even CD/DVD drives (make multiple copies if
the use of these).

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Info:

System restore usually holds 15% of disk space and updates that are necessary for running computer
consume even more. Backup - Options of recovery and even MS updates and those of HP, Dell
or similar manufacturers use the space if your charging system. There are also overhead for the readers are not
format to their maximum capacity.

Where all my disk space? (Vista) - good writeup
http://Forum.NotebookReview.com/showthread.php?t=167983

Hard disk space Vista shrinking and reducing anomaly
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/07/04/Vista-hard-disk-space-shrinking-and-reducing-anomaly/

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It will show you how disk space is being used.

WinDirStat - free - use to make sure you know what is too much space.
http://WinDirStat.info/

-Free - TreeSize tells you where precious space has gone to
http://www.Jam-software.com/treesize_free/

JDiskReport
http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/JDiskReport/index.html

Also run Disk Cleanup:

Start - All Programs - Accessories - System Tools - Disk Cleanup.

Use the WinDirStat or TreeSize and these other tools.

DiskMon - free - an application that logs and displays all the activity of the hard disk on a Windows System.
You can also reduce DiskMon in your system tray, where it acts as a disk light, presenting a green
icon when there is disk-read activity and a red icon when there is a writing activity.
http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/Sysinternals/bb896646.aspx

Process Monitor - free - a monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system,
The process/thread activity and the register.
http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/Sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

Manage - free - a utility that displays information about the handles opened for any process in the system.
You can use it to see the programs that have an open folder, or to see the types of objects and the names of all
the handles of a program.
http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/Sysinternals/bb896655.aspx

-Free - Process Explorer shows you information about the handles and DLLs processes have
opened or loaded.
http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/Sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

Sysinternals - many free tools
http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/Sysinternals/default.aspx

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OpenedFilesView - Free displays the list of all the open files on your system. For each file opened,
additional information is displayed: handle value, read/write/delete access, position in the file, the
process that has the file open and more...
http://www.NirSoft.NET/utils/opened_files_view.html

I hope this helps.

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