Why am I wasting on average 1.5 GB per day on my hard drive

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• Why have I not hundreds of copies of gencomp.dll files on my hard drive?

  Something generates a directories on my directory to the root of the C: drive approximately every 2 hours or so that contains a copy of gencomp.dll. The name of the directory appears to be a random pattern of about 20 to 30 digits hexadecimal digits. He did this for about 10 days now and I have about 135 different directories in the root directory that match this description.

  There is a gencomp.dll file in the directory C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\Microsoft SP1\ of Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 which seems to be the same file

  This is an OS XP with Service Pack 2 installed.

  I have Symantec Endpoint Protection installed on the computer and a virus scanner and found nothing.

  It does not appear to be a specific problem right now, with the exception that it is make items in the directory root hard to find filled it with several directories, but I am sure that the computer will suffer performance issues later.

  Any idea of what could be causing it to...

  Hello

  Have you done any recent change in software before these questions?

  The gencomp.dll could be part of recently installed software.

  Method 1:

  I suggest you use the disk clean to remove all unnecessary files from the computer.

  Using disk cleanup

  http://www.Microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/proddocs/en-us/app_disk_cleanup.mspx?mfr=true

  Description of the tool in Windows XP disk cleanup

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

  Method 2:

  I suggest you to perform an analysis of your computer online by visiting the link below:

  http://www.Microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx

  Note: there is a risk of data loss if all the files are infected and which can be removed in the cleaning process.

  Hope this helps and keep us posted.

• Why I am no longer able to connect to one of my external hard drives.

  I have two drives, one is Maxtor & the other is Hitachi, nor now communicates with the PC, please advise.

  Fortunately, I discovered the solution to the problem now, apparently the USB cable I was using had somehow developed a fault and then was replaced and the problem is no longer.  This observation may help other users.

  Thank you.

• Windows 7 is not looking for files on my physics extra internal hard drive (d :)) why not?)

  On the Microsoft Web site at: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-AU/windows7/products/features/windows-search

  It says on the page, , "a few people store all their files in a place these days. If Windows 7 is also designed to search for external hard drives, networked PC, and libraries. Overwhelmed by your search result? You can instantly narrow them by date, type of file and other useful categories. »

  Why, then, can't I search for files on my internal additional physical hard drive D: I know are there, and yet I can see and open them in Windows Explorer?

  I would debate that from what I see, by default, Windows 7 is not be indexed files on anything other than his main boot partition.

  Is it possible to change Windows 7 to enable indexing of other readers, or force a periodic re-indexing?

  If anyone has an answer, it would be much appreciated.

  Try (see - http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/improve-windows-searches-using-index-faq#1TC=windows-7 )

  It will be useful.

• Why my external hard drive cannot be mounted or viewd by a Macbook

  Hello

  I can't see my HD exertenal from the finder.

  I do not have G-Tech HD and I use with TimeMachine. This HD has two partitions.

  The first is used for the backup with Time Machine, a macbook air, and the second partition is used to back up a macbook pro with Time Machine.

  It worked fine until I look in the external hard drive (partition macbook). Now, it is not possible to mount the external hard drive. From the Finder, I see no partition eighter the first or the second.

  I plugged it in an another mAcbook air and no way to see inside the external hard drive.

  Howerver, I pluggged in a 14.04 ubuntu and I was able to navigate through the external hard drive

  Why can I see the contents of the external HD with a ubuntu n not with a Macbook?

  And how can I solve this problem?

  See you soon

  Stone

  El Capitan has permissions configuration much tighter than earlier versions of Mac OS X and it can become a problem to open files from a different computer. You need to tell us what OS you are running on all computers.

  I suspect that Ubuntu is having no problem because it does not under the same restraint of permissions.

  It worked fine until I look in the external hard drive (partition macbook).

  What you have done here, caused the change of permissions.

  Don't forget that connect a player directly on a computer and use it plugged into an airport will have different permissions issues.

  I don't have much in the way of a solution. Apple has changed repair them permissions on El Capitan.

  You have a Mac running an earlier version of Mac OS X?

  If your two partitions are used just to make the Time Machine backups...

• I want to back up why iMovie on an external hard drive and.  retain the ability to modify the backup version

  I want to back up why iMovie on an external hard drive and.  retain the ability to modify the backup version. Thank you for helping me best wishes, Garvin Bazzell "Bazz.

  You can in the finder copy your library to EHD. Make sure that the EHD are formatted OS Extended journaled. Open the library in iMovie to make sure that it copied correctly.

• Why does the HARD drive only shows 69.8 Gb on my G20-139?

  Why my G20-139 only displays 69.8 Go when it is supposed to be 80 GB? you seems to be missing a lot? Can anyone help with this.
  How can I contact Toshiba to the United Kingdom if nobody knows the answer?

  Hello

  How did you check the size of HARD drive?
  Well, as far as I know the Qosmio Player is pre-installed on the hidden partition.
  It is perhaps a reason for different size of HARD drive.

  Good bye

• Waste of space on hard drive

  My pavilion 734. UK Windows XP failed to restart after a set windows to update recently. Finally, I hit F10 on the hp splash screen and recovered the system, with a few necessary subsequent update. I find now that I can't recharge my photos and other files that the remaining disk space has reduced to almost nothing. The hard drive is a nominal 80 GB and the last time I remember to check before the reboot fails was less than half full.  Auditor of Western digital disk tells me that it is in good condition. I can find 88000 files using Go 33 - hidden files included. However, the computer thinks I have used f. 70 restore points have been reduced to one and run Disk Cleanup. Can someone help me understand why I can't access the 'missing' 37 GB?

  Hello

  Check the 3rd post in the link below - this can often be the cause.

  http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/F10/missing-hard-drive-space-after-reinstalling-Windows-XP-384050.html

  Kind regards

  DP - K

• Satellite L755-154: waste of space of HARD drive due to the second partition

  Hello

  I bought this laptop so far everything goes well.
  However, there seems to be 2 partitions on it, the first is the C: drive that is around 300 GB, but the 2nd partition D: which is again about 300 GB, which has only the recovery drive?

  This seems to be a waste of hard drive space, because I bought it because it had a good-sized hard drive.
  Now, my question is that I have to make a record of this partition recovery, and then re - format both drives and install everything from scratch?

  Also, the recovery disc has all the drivers for all components of the laptop, as well as Windows 7?
  As I bought this form Amazon no windows disk or recovery disk was provided, only the windows 7 serial number.

  Thank you

  > Now, my question is what I need to do a recovery from that partition, then re disc - format both drives and install everything from scratch?

  In General, you should always create a recovery disk.
  If you have created a recovery disc then this disk will help you set the laptop back to factory settings. This means that all the HARD disk should be formatted and would once again create all partitions. This means that you will get these two partitions again.

  If you want to move the free space in partition D to C, then you will need to use a software of partitions. I use GParted its great tool

  > Also the recovery disc has all the drivers for all components of the laptop, and Windows 7
  Yes

  > As I bought this form Amazon no windows disk or recovery disk was provided, only the windows 7 serial number.
  See above, that you create this recovery disk!

• Why ReadCLOUD he created folders on my hard drive?

  This morning when I pulled my computer, my boot hard drive was full. He has created many problems.

  Created ReadyCLOUD of files to backup on my computer and the files copied from my computer in these folders on my computer instead of sync them to the ReadyNAS102.

  Why we do this? I have these updated files in place on the NAS to synchronize the directories.

  How can I get the synchronization back to actions on the ReadyNAS?

  Hello

  Yes I think so. If you start a new backup without deleting the backup share first a new one will be created with the same name and added a "-2".

  Bye,.

  Martial

• Why can't export video of photos on external hard drive mac

  I can no longer export a video of my photos from mac to an external hard drive. It says 'download' for a very long time - even an hour - and finally I give up. Why? What can I please?

  try to export to the desktop and then dragging in SMT

  LN

• Why my hard drive is so active when my calculation goes to sleep?

  Why is my hard drive so active when the screensaver on my computer? Even after I wake up the computer the hard drive screen saver mode remains active for a long time?

  My computer - HP Compaq Presario sr5612f

  Hi GreatNate,

  What type of screen saver do you use? Is one that is preinstalled on the PC, or one that you have installed yourself?

  The processes you mentioned below are some typical process Intenet Explorer, Task Manager (since you opened it to display) and then dmw.exe.

  The dmw file is actually one that you can change the settings to see more system resources. This is a HP support document that explains How to increase the system resources in Vista. Pay special attention to step on the set of non-essential graphics features.

  Here is a web page that explains more about dmw if you are interested.

  http://www.howtogeek.com/HOWTO/Windows-Vista/what-is-dwmexe-and-why-is-it-running/

  Let us know how it goes.

• Why whs 2011 installation gets stuck to copy Windows files on the HARD drive?

  I try to install WHS 2011 OEM on a HP EX470 software.  I have tried about 30 times without supervision and welfare facilities in the past 4 months and am very frustrated that I can't succeed and purchase the software was a waste of time and money.  I tried 4 hard drives, properly formatted capacity of 250 GB to 2 TB.  EX470 has the original 1620 AMD processor and 2 GB RAM upgraded and qualifies for the upgrade to a 64-bit system.

  Problem with installation assistance tries: Installation says "Copying Windows files", but after a variable time in hours of waiting, growth remains at 0% and finally says "error in installation.  Try to restart the installation.  Same thing happens with the help of the DVD, or by using a Sandisk Cruser formatted and made bootable 16 GB flash drive with a file cfg.ini the instructions online and also tried without the cfg.ini file.
  Problem with unattended installation attempts:  Process completely blind.  Does not install even if left for 24 hours.  Cannot decipher the flashing lights on the Flash drive and thereafter, no installation nor evidence of partial installation is visible on check the hard drive on another computer.  I suppose that the same thing as the installation attempts assisted.
  Looked for solutions online for 4 months, but nobody does the problem of Windows not to copy the files to the HARD disk during installation and what goes wrong.
  Help!

  Hello

  I suggest you post your question to the link and check.

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/en-us/w7itpronetworking/threads

• Why the system operating to deny access to the file specified to run wipe Drive 5

  Why deny operating system access to the specified file for execution unit 5 Wipe to wipe my hard drive, I need permission.

  Hi JoyceScott,

  ·         What is the operating system installed on the computer?

  If you receive no error message indicating that access is denied, take the permissions on the drive and check if it helps.

  a. right click on the external hard drive, and then select Properties.

  b. click on the Security tab, select the user name and click on modify.

  c. now, click Add and type the user name that you want to grant permissions to sub enter the names of the objects to select, and then click on check names. Click OK.

  d. now, select the user name you typed in group or user names and check full control under the terms of the authorization for.

  e. click on apply and OK. Check whether the problem exists.

  For more information, visit: What are the permissions?

• 27-a010 all-in-One Pavilion: why the hard drive from my old computer Toshiba displayed on my new HP c drive?

  I got this new computer on Monday. The reason why I bought a new was that I suspected that my old Toshiba got compromised. I even bought a new Linksys router that was AC 1900. My new HP computer has McAfee and uses MicrosoftEdge browser. There are several interesting questions, I hope that experts from HP can answer for me.

  1. why my old Toshiba drive appears on the hard drives in the Device Manager?

  2. Why are there readers D two on disk management? Can't update my Windows 10. I bought a new computer.

  3. why hiberfil.sys and pagefile.sys, swapfile.sys, BOOTNXT appear on my drive C Windows?

  The above synptoms are normal? I need to do something about these questions or just leave them along? I have a microsoft all in one account.

  Thanks for the reply.

  Hello

  I don't see your screen but:

  1. new machine uses Toshiba HDD, not your old machine of Toshiba. HP uses HARD disks with many suppliers, including Toshiba.

  2. Yes, it is normal. One with the file system is the real, without file system is a shadow one.

  3. normally, they are hidden system files, you can hide them if you wish.

  Kind regards.