Re: Free space disappearing

Paul

What is the bigger picture? What are the sizes of your other partitions and how much free space on each? Who and what tools created these partitions? Are the partitions on the same drive? Are the partitions formatted as FAT32 or NTFS?

Are you using any Norton / Symantec products?

You need to increase your free space on C to 1,300 mb. This may be possible if you provide more information!

Select Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp to Empty your Recycle Bin and Remove Temporary Internet Files. Also select Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp, More Options, System Restore and remove all but the latest System Restore point.

Ways to increase free disk space on your C partition can be achieved by relocation of folders.

For Temporary Internet Files select Start, Control Panel, Internet Options, Temporary Internet Files. Settings, Move Folder.

To move the Outlook Express Store Folder select in Outlook Express Tools, Options, Maintenance, Store Folder, Change.
http://www.tomsterdam.com/insideoe/files/store.htm

My Documents is one of a number of system created Special Folders including My Pictures and My Music. These can more easily be relocated using Tweak Ui. Download TweakUI, one of the MS powertoys, from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

In TweakUi select My Computer, Special Folders. You can scroll down to see the full list of Special Folders to the left of the Change Location button.

You may also need to change Default File locations in the Microsoft Office programmes you choose to move the My Documents folder. For Word go to Tools, Options, File Locations, highlight Documents, click on Modify and change file path. For Excel go to Tools, Options, General and change default file path.

To increase you free space on your XP partition select Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp, More Options, System Restore and remove all but the latest System Restore points? Restore points can be quite large.

You should use Disk CleanUp regularly to Empty your Recycle Bin and Remove Temporary Internet Files. Whenever you remove redundant files you should always run Disk Defragmenter by selecting Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk Defragmenter. You will most likely have problems running Disk Defragmenter if there is less than
15% free disk space in your XP partition.

These are ony some ideas for increasing the free space on partition C!



PaulM wrote:
While using PC my free space on C: is continually reducing even when
not running any apps (apart from XP!). Unable to identify any
particular file/folder at fault or if a virtual mem problem. Latter
is unlikely as pagefile is on another physical drive & partition.
Stats:
Drive C: size 6.50 Gb
Drive C: usage approx 95%
Installed RAM 512 Mb
Pagefile 524 Mb (on another partition)
Example : Today I started off with 424 Mb free, after approx 6 hours
it's down to 329 Mb. This will stay as 329 even if I reboot.
C: drive badly needs defragged but surely this shouldn't affect
freespace to such an extent?
Can anybody please help? Are there any free tools which could monitor
/identify the cause?

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