Windows Vista D: / / only has 6% available!

Windows Vista D: / / a 111 GB of capacity, there are 17 GB of music-Photo-etc. & 28 GB of backup. What is the other 50 GB?

How to find & delete unknown files?
I tried "Disk Clean-up & Defrag" with no real help.
Thank you...

1. in what drive you have installed Windows Vista?

I suggest you to download and run the latest Microsoft security on your computer Scanner and check if it helps:

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

Note: the data files that are infected must be cleaned only by removing the file completely, which means there is a risk of data loss.

Check out the links.

http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/uninstall-or-change-a-program

http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/delete-files-using-disk-cleanup

http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/optimize-Windows-Vista-for-better-performance

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