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help...my c drive is filling up by itself

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zuala77 Original post #1
Jan 18, 2006 at 3:05 PM
Last time i checked...my c drive was 15.2 gb free that was last night... and this morning it was 14.2...i havent installed anything from last night....and i have set the recycle bin to 1 percent and the v..memory to 507 mb........can anyone why is this happening...?i have done disk cleanup and defrag also....
tarey_g
tarey_g #2
Jan 18, 2006 at 3:08 PM
Are U on Win ME?
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zuala77 #3
Jan 18, 2006 at 3:43 PM
i am using windows xp..pro with sp2
Vishal Gupta
Jan 18, 2006 at 3:48 PM
Hv u enabled System Restore?

It might be taking that space for creating Restore points!

IE Temporay files can also cause this...
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zuala77 #5
Jan 18, 2006 at 4:01 PM
nope...i have disabled system restore and temporary internet files are cleared....
S
Jan 18, 2006 at 5:34 PM
Did you restart the system and check it once again? If not do it now.
Do you have any syatem crash last time? And a BSOD come up with a memery dump? If so, a file named MEMORY.DMP may be created.
And use the software called 'Treesize' to know more about which folders taking your disk space more. You can then point out the folder which is unexpectedly taking more space.

Since you have lost 1GB free space, you can easily track it with TreeSize.