Windows Vista think the C drive is full
I'm trying to help my mother claire on the space on his computer. It is currently running Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit, drive C is 140 GB. Yesterday, she showed that she had about 5 GB of free, this morning it had fallen less than 1.5 GB. I ran the disk cleanup tool, deleted temporary files and SR shadow copies and got it for free up to 2.47 GB.
We went through all the programs that are installed the other day and uninstalled everything that it does not work. Under uninstall programs, I added all the space used by programs and came with 10.17 GB. When I open the C drive to view the files, all totaled, I can explain 26,44 Go, more de.4058 MB.
Take the free space, I could clearly account, it is mysteriously full approx. 100,92 GB and I'm not. I've crossed the road and does not know where it is used.
Hello
This free program allows you to see what is taking place.
http://www.Jam-software.com/treesize_free/
Here's how to understand Treesize Screenshots:
http://www.Jam-software.com/treesize_free/screenshots.shtml
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By default system restore also includes 15% of the capacity of your hard drive.
You can change the size of it:
http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/76227-system-restore-disk-space.html
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You can clean your hard drive using these two methods.
"Delete files using Disk Cleanup"
http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/delete-files-using-disk-cleanup
Using the free CCleaner program:
http://www.Piriform.com/CCleaner
In NO case use the registry cleaning Option in CCleaner
Download, install, update and scan your system with the free version of Malwarebytes AntiMalware:
http://www.Malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free
And Norton Backup, if you are using Norton, can do strange things with filling of hard drive space.
See you soon.
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