XP PRO MEMORY LOSS

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DONNA

I KEEP DELETING PROGRAMS AND SOFTWARE THAT I DON'T USE OR
NEED NOW AND MY DISK SPACE KEEPS GETTING SMALLER. I HAD
424 MB THEN TURN MY COMPUTER OFF AND RESTARTED AND IT
ONLY HAD 74. I DELETED MY ADOBE PHOTOSHOP THEN ALMOST
IMMED. TRIED TO RE-INSTALL IT AND IT SAID NOT ENOUGH
DISK SPACE. I CAN'T DEFRAG AND MY SYSTEM RESTORE HAS
SHUT ITSELF DONE. WHAT HAPPENED? WHAT DO I DO?WHERE DO I
START?
 
Hey Donna,

Try and find out what's using the space.

start/search

Choose "All Files and Folders"

Leave filename blank.

Click "What size is it"
Click "Specify Size" and leave "at least" and enter 50000K, this is roughly
50MB.


Click on "More advanced options"
Make sure "Search system folders", "Search hidden files and folders" and
"Search subfolders" are selected.

Click search

This should show you what files on your system are larger than 50MB.

My first blind guess would be that you have some kind of virus which is
consuming memory and the pagefile.sys is getting very large.

Lets see what comes back from the search.

How much memory do you have in your system, and do you have a firewall
installed and antivirus software ?

Paul
 
-----Original Message-----
I KEEP DELETING PROGRAMS AND SOFTWARE THAT I DON'T USE OR
NEED NOW AND MY DISK SPACE KEEPS GETTING SMALLER. I HAD
424 MB THEN TURN MY COMPUTER OFF AND RESTARTED AND IT
ONLY HAD 74. I DELETED MY ADOBE PHOTOSHOP THEN ALMOST
IMMED. TRIED TO RE-INSTALL IT AND IT SAID NOT ENOUGH
DISK SPACE. I CAN'T DEFRAG AND MY SYSTEM RESTORE HAS
SHUT ITSELF DONE. WHAT HAPPENED? WHAT DO I DO?WHERE DO I
START?
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Sound to me you need a new hard drive. Sometimes when a
drive fails it has a cascading effect something like that.
Try running scandisk to see if it is marking sectors as
bad.

Late
puppetgrimm1
 
Scandisk was a tool under earlier versions of windows, its now called
chkdsk.

I would be surprised if the error is as described but it is probably a good
idea to run it, just to give some confidence in the integrity of the file
system before looking elsewhere.

Its easiest to run it manually, go to a command prompt and run the command

chkdsk /R C:

Replace C: with your drive letter if it is different.

You will get this message

Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be
checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N)

Answer Y, and reboot.

chkdsk will run at startup.

Paul
 
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