Desperately need disk auditing tool
From: J Krugman (jkrugman345_at_yahbitoo.com)
Date: 11/21/04
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Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 04:11:55 +0000 (UTC)
My system has been freezing up a lot lately. I have applied every
upgrade, and every virus and spyware protection software available,
but the problem persists. The next possible diagnosis is that my
hard disk is too full (it's at almost 90% capacity now).
My company's IT desk says that SOP for this is to back-up the entire
disk, and do a fresh install of Windows. This is something that
only they can do (unless I want to pay for Windows out of my own
pocket), because only they have the site-licensed disks, but they
are swamped at the moment, and can't help me until after Thanksgiving,
which is too long for me to wait.
In the meantime, I want to free up as much space in my disk as
possible. Therefore, I am looking for some tool, preferably free
(or very cheap), that will help me identify very large files and
folders that get little use. (I tried Disk Clean, or some such,
but it did not give me sufficiently detailed information; it only
told me that a bazillion bytes' worth of disk had not been used
much in the recent months, and were good candidates for compressing.
I don't want to compress files; I want to delete them. Besides,
when I tried accepting Disk Clean's compression, the machine ground
to a halt. Maybe the disk is so full that it interferes with the
compression program?)
Any recommendations would be much appreciated!
jill
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