My Hard drive space keeps disappearing

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Does anyone know how I can keep my windows xp hard drive
space from disappearing? I have uninstalled every big
program (microsoft office, norton anti-virus) and now i
have even less hard drive space than I had before. It is
really frustrating that microsoft feels comfortable
marketing less than average software. Can anyone help?

Allen
 
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Does anyone know how I can keep my windows xp hard drive
space from disappearing? I have uninstalled every big
program (microsoft office, norton anti-virus) and now i
have even less hard drive space than I had before. It is
really frustrating that microsoft feels comfortable
marketing less than average software. Can anyone help?

Allen
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Just run the disk cleanup and disk defragmenter tools
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found in the system tools area. And most important is to
run scans for viruses, worms, trojans, and for spyware.
Some of these can replacate files over and over. And if
your hard drive is too old and small, just buy a new one
for less than $100. Today 20- 40 GB is considered minimum
size. Also look in the msconfig.exe tool on the startup
tab, for what apps are allways starting at boot too.
 
I too am having a mysterious usage of my hard drive. In
the past 3 days I have lost about 300mb of disk space to
something. I have removed every unused program and have
run diskcleanup. Each time the space just gets smaller. I
am now at 116mb remaining on a 5gb partition. I can only
account for 1.5gb of data loaded. The only thing I have
found so far refers to the 64-bit windows. Current system
has 1.5gb of ram installed. I am really tired of seeing
that balloon saying that my disks space is running low.
Does anyone have any other ideas????
 
Allen said:
Does anyone know how I can keep my windows xp hard drive
space from disappearing? I have uninstalled every big
program (microsoft office, norton anti-virus) and now i
have even less hard drive space than I had before. It is
really frustrating that microsoft feels comfortable
marketing less than average software. Can anyone help?

Allen
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Why are you blaming Microsoft for problems you are having with your
hard drive? First off sending some information would have been most
helpful. Like how big is your hard drive, what make, what OS are you
running? Have you checked for viruses, have you upgraded your virus
definitions? Norton's has upgraded their virus definitions twice in the
past 3 days. If you want an intelligent answer you have to provide an
intelligent problem. This you did not do! :-(
 
First of all it is microsoft's fault . . .

i have done everything possible. I have norton antivirus
professional edition with the most recent updates. I also
run norton firewall professional edition (with most recent
updates). I have defraged the hard drive several times,
but now I can't because all my hard drive space has
disappeared. I've done disk cleanup and gone into msconfig
to remove unwanted start up items. I've used spybot and
adaware to get rid of most of the spyware and yet the
problem persists. The problem is an inferior operating
system, not user error.
 
Have you got System Restore set, and is it using the Default Settings,
because if you have this will use over 10% of your HD space over time.
 
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