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Post by Shady Jay on Dec 2, 2005 19:50:15 GMT -5
I was looking at my hard drive space and noticed I only had around 9 GB left after having near 30 GB a few months ago. I'm absolutely baffled as to how that much just disappeared, sure I have lots of music but after getting rid of a bunch today it didn't really free up a whole lot.
Anyways my question is, is there somewhere in XP where I can see a complete list of things I have on my computer and what is taking up the space on my hard drive?
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steve
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Post by steve on Dec 3, 2005 14:48:41 GMT -5
that happened to me too!! now i only have 700 meg left!
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Matty
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Post by Matty on Dec 3, 2005 15:17:25 GMT -5
What else do you have on there? Games? Stuff like that? It might depend on updates too. Sometimes files which are dowloaded for the automatic updates are fairly big. Those are just some suggestions. Or, go to your window folder, (usually c:/windows) and right click and check properties..see how much is being used in the windows folder..although, I wouldn't recommend touching any files in there
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Post by Drew on Dec 3, 2005 18:11:52 GMT -5
I use a program called Drive Doppler which allows me to see where all of my of drive space is disappearing to. Like, if you run a scan today and, then run another scan a week from now, it will show you which folders increased the most in size. You can also see which folders are taking up the most space. Good program! www.freedownloadscenter.com/Utilities/Disk_Analysis_Utilities/Drive_Doppler_Download.htmlThe other thing that you could do is uninstall whatever stuff you don't use... (Start / Control Panel / Add or Remove Programs)... most of the computers that you buy nowadays come with wwaaay too much crap already loaded on them. Like one of my computers came with MS Money and MS Works and some other HP help stuff (that nobody ever uses)... I uninstalled all of those and that freed-up like 4 GBs right there!! I would say that the probably biggest culprits for not having enough disk space are videos, temp files, temp internet files, system restore, and programs that you don't use or don't even know that you have. There are some games that take up alot of space too... like Madden almost takes up a whole gig to itself. There's also a couple of programs that I would recommend which will help you clean up your hard drive: CleanUp! www.stevengould.org/software/cleanup/CCleaner www.ccleaner.com/I remember the first time that I ran CCleaner, it freed-up like 2 gigs worth of stuff!! You might want to give it a try...
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Post by Jawshii on Dec 3, 2005 19:25:55 GMT -5
I have a 250 GB hard drive, and I've already used half of it...I'll have to use one of those and check why
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Post by Shady Jay on Dec 3, 2005 20:19:53 GMT -5
I don't have video or games just alot of music. Anyways I tried the CCleaner and I got rid of 750 mb of crap.
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Post by M! on Dec 4, 2005 12:06:01 GMT -5
I downloaded CCleaner to give it a try, but I didn't like it in the end.
I removed it from my computer, but for some reason under my Recycle Bin, it still gives me the option of "Open CCleaner" or "Run CCleaner" when I don't even have it. Is there a way to remove this?
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Post by BS™ on Dec 5, 2005 3:02:57 GMT -5
i have a 200GB hard drive and i have 164GB of free space ;D
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Post by Drew on Dec 5, 2005 18:44:30 GMT -5
I downloaded CCleaner to give it a try, but I didn't like it in the end. I removed it from my computer, but for some reason under my Recycle Bin, it still gives me the option of "Open CCleaner" or "Run CCleaner" when I don't even have it. Is there a way to remove this? Ok, just (re-)Install CCleaner... Go into Options / Settings / uncheck "add run CClean option to recycle bin..." and also uncheck "open ccleaner option to recycle bin". Then, uninstall CCleaner.
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MIKEB
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Post by MIKEB on Dec 5, 2005 21:15:05 GMT -5
I have two 160GB hard drives. I have about 80GB used somehow. I never really thought about how. I know maybe 20GB or so are for mp3s. Possibly 30GB. I have music videos and stuff so that's prolly 10-15GB. And whenever I make songs or make edits of songs or anything, they go into a folder and that really adds up! The program I use uses these files and shortcuts to them.
edit: music folder is almost 15GB. videos: almost 4GB other music/mp3/wave folders: 15GB music editing/song making: 9GB windows: 2.6GB programs collective (folders included): 5.5GB Total c: space used: 65GB
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Post by M! on Dec 5, 2005 22:29:34 GMT -5
I downloaded CCleaner to give it a try, but I didn't like it in the end. I removed it from my computer, but for some reason under my Recycle Bin, it still gives me the option of "Open CCleaner" or "Run CCleaner" when I don't even have it. Is there a way to remove this? Ok, just (re-)Install CCleaner... Go into Options / Settings / uncheck "add run CClean option to recycle bin..." and also uncheck "open ccleaner option to recycle bin". Then, uninstall CCleaner. Yeah, I figured that out after I posted that. Thanks anyway.
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raychip
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Post by raychip on Dec 6, 2005 14:42:04 GMT -5
I used one program that it shows in extensions and the space used by it and the mb or gb of space that that file extension is using on your hard drive. I can't remember what its called at the moment though
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Post by FreakyFlyBry on Dec 6, 2005 14:49:22 GMT -5
I have a 142 GB hard drive, with 100 GB free space.
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