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    Local Disc C space

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Impressive, May 30, 2009.

  1. Impressive

    Impressive Notebook Consultant

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    Hi,

    I reformated my laptop about a week ago, before using it I partitioned my disk - left disc C with 40GBs for Vista, and made disk E with all the remaining space. During the week, I did not instal anything to disk C but for some strange reason starting today it shows that there is only 1 GB of free space left in disc C!

    I ran an error check with Tune Up utilities and it stated that some free sectors were set up as allocated. Tune Up Utilities said that it solved the problem but it stil shows that there's only 1GB left!

    I am defragmenting at the momment but I doubt this will help.

    Any suggestions?
     
    Impressive, May 30, 2009
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  2. demonhotrod

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    Do you have System Restore turned on for that drive?
     
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  3. Impressive

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    nope, its turned off :(
     
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    First of all - 40 gigs for Windows Vista that's never enough. Vista constantly creates junk files and stuff you won't even know it's there, until you check your free disk space. Have you the "Free up disk space" and "Clean up windows" options in TuneUp?
     
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  5. Impressive

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    Yep I did that, it removed about 1.5GB of junk, and now I have 2.9GB of free space, but I still think that is really too low. The change in free space happended instantly - I am pretty sure I had loads of free space a couple of hours ago.

    Just before the problem occured I had a full virus check with Kaspersky and for some reason the check crashed (at the very end while checking files on my external driver) and I had to force reboot. Maybe this had an impact.

    EDIT: i just found out that my TEMP folder is 15GB big. Don't think this is normal. And I'm not sure why Tune Up Utilities did not clean it. Can I just clean it myself? It has about 10 files which are 1.5GB each, like PR31AC.tmp Any more suggestions :D?
     
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    I finaly found the problem - it was a Kaspersky bug. While scanning and decompressing big files it sometimes creates big files in the temp folder. Deleted them and now have 18.2 GB of free space again :). Topic can be closed.
     
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    What folder was this?
     
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    Windows\Temp
     
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