Re: Hard Disk keeps filling up about a Gig a day.

From: Rock (rock_at_comcast.nospam.net)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:12:29 -0700

Tibor H. wrote:

> I clean installed Windows XP Professional about two months
> ago onto my Dell Latitude CS model computer. Everything
> work properly but Disk Cleanup does not seem to work. The C
> Drive keeps filling up about a Gigabyte a day until it
> fills up completely. At that point the drive seem to clean
> itself up and the Properties show about the amount of
> material that is actually on the disk. After that the cycle
> begins anew and Properties show larger and larger used up
> space. The external hard drive also shows to have more on
> it than it actually has
>
> The Knowledge Base article "Disk Cleanup Tool Stops
> Responding While Compressing Old Files" suggests using the
> Registry Editor and make changes. I made the prescribed
> changes and now Disk Cleanup no longer stops but the disk
> still keep filling up.
>
> Any suggestion(s) what to do?
>

You're the only one that can open windows explorer and monitor what
folders are growing each day. Find out what is getting bigger and post
back. We can then help you. The biggest space hots are system restore,
which if left at default will use 12% of the drive space the the
temporary internet files which will grow as big as you let it unless you
put a cap on them, which you should.

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