Space disk excessive Unexpained used

I have a Pavilion a415uk (2004)

Updated 293 GB HDD. (2009)

Upgrade to 1 GB RAM, (2009)

XP Home SP3

Installed programs add up to 4.5 GB

No stored music and a few photos and documents.

I seem to use every month between 8-25 GB of hard drive space. I am a user and don't play on that. In 2 years and a half I went from 80GB to currently 260 GB used space on the C drive. In the last months, I constantly tried to catch the return of over of space.

I used the C cleaning tool.

I did several drive cleanings.

I defragmented (but now impossible due to the only 12% left).

I cut all the restore points again (no change) and reduced the space of files authorized from 11% to 1% point. Still hardly did not improve the situation.

I ran Ad Aware and Malwarebytes, nothing of note it

I have removed all the music, don't have 2 GB documents and only 50 MB of photos left.

Also deleted all my messages bar 3 and emptied recycle bin.

Total of installed programs 4.5 GB

Surely with almost nothing stored on the computer that I was only using about 100 GB or less on the C drive.

If I can't resolve it I reformat, but it's a last resort. If I can't resolved this in July I will have 100% all sold out! It works ok and I don't see the point to get a external hard drive and keep a full C disk of... what?

Help!

Did you do a chkdsk on the drive? Right click on the C drive, click Properties. Then go to the 'Tools' tab and under "Error checking" select "check now". In the box that opens, verify that both selections are checked and click ok. You will be asked if you want the calendar to the next startup. Select Yes, and then restart your machine.

If no joy, try WinDirStat to determine where the space is used.

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