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purpleman
October 20th 05, 01:49 PM
Gotta a really strange problem for the last month. I got a 120Gb hard drive. I have repeatedly done everything to delete old files, uninstall old programmes, delete large folders, ran good antivirus and good spyware programmes which all come clean, as well as defragging the hard disk but still my free hard disk space looking via either Windows Explorer or "C" drive , right click , properties, can vary between 15 Gb and 50Mb!
Windows keeps telling me anything from every 5 minutes to every few hours or even directly after a re-boot/ power down that I have sometimes as low as 40-50 Mb of free disk space left.
Other times it shows from 3Gb to 15Gb of free disk space and everything works ok. I`m not getting any error codes other then "Low Disk Space". It`s driving me nuts.
Has anyone got ideas what could be causing this please and what I can do to fix this problem
Thanks

Cari \(MS-MVP\)
October 20th 05, 08:43 PM
Run Disk Cleanup and remember to also remove the System Restore Files except
the latest one.
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Cari (MS-MVP)
Printing & Imaging



"purpleman" > wrote in message
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>
> Gotta a really strange problem for the last month. I got a 120Gb hard
> drive. I have repeatedly done everything to delete old files, uninstall
> old programmes, delete large folders, ran good antivirus and good
> spyware programmes which all come clean, as well as defragging the hard
> disk but still my free hard disk space looking via either Windows
> Explorer or "C" drive , right click , properties, can vary between 15
> Gb and 50Mb!
> Windows keeps telling me anything from every 5 minutes to every
> few hours or even directly after a re-boot/ power down that I have
> sometimes as low as 40-50 Mb of free disk space left.
> Other times it shows from 3Gb to 15Gb of free disk space and
> everything works ok. I`m not getting any error codes other then "Low
> Disk Space". It`s driving me nuts.
> Has anyone got ideas what could be causing this please and what
> I can do to fix this problem
> Thanks
>
>
> --
> purpleman

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