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Free Disk Space
My Dell Computer came to me new with Windows XP Home
installed. I don't know when the problem described below started. While my computer is on, Drive C free disk space decreases for no apparant reason. It takes about 6 hours for it to reach zero. I can't find any files or folders whose size has increased, yet the total used increases. Eventually programs won't run because disk space is so low. I have more than one gigabit free when I first start the computer. I can't find any info concerning this problem or it solution. Any help would be greatly appreciated. |
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Free Disk Space
My initial guess would be you have a virus which is constantly requesting
memory, because of this, windows xp is constantly increasing the size of the pagefile.sys file which by default is in the root directory of the partition containing xp. Watch it and see if it grows. Make sure all hidden files and system files are visible. My Computer/tools/folder options/View Select "Show hidden files and folders" and Unselect Hide Protected System files (Recommended) Then go into the root directory and see how big pagefile.sys is, and if its growing. You can also search the system for files modified today and greater than 10MB as follows: start/search Select All files and folders Under When was it modified Select specify dates and leave the default of todays date Under What size it Select specify size, and "at least" set 10000, thats around 10MB Under more advanced options Make sure search system folders, Search hidden files and folders and search subfolders are all selected, the should be by default. The click search and see what it comes back with. Paul wrote in message ... My Dell Computer came to me new with Windows XP Home installed. I don't know when the problem described below started. While my computer is on, Drive C free disk space decreases for no apparant reason. It takes about 6 hours for it to reach zero. I can't find any files or folders whose size has increased, yet the total used increases. Eventually programs won't run because disk space is so low. I have more than one gigabit free when I first start the computer. I can't find any info concerning this problem or it solution. Any help would be greatly appreciated. |
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