My wifes laptop was short of harddrive space so I thought i would investigate .........so i got rid of all the silly pictures and stuff and unwanted,unused programmes,but it oly left about 10% of free space on a 40gb drive !!!
So i thought that windows maybey was hanging on to temp files ...but no.......
The i discovered 2 things .....1 that when investigating C:/ drive 3 of the 6 items __docs and settings,window and a small boot file 4kb were in BLUE FONT COLOUR ,unlike the usuall black ad that the windows folder was 23.1GB with 22,250 files and 2.040 folders when on my laptop running identical OS it was 7.58GB with 34,604 files and 2,717 folders !!!!! HELP please techies !!!! There is probably a simple answer .....but not for my brain ....!! cheers guys !!!:-O
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Jump to Posthi, i have no idea why the blue font!but open the windows folder ,go view click details ,then click on size to show the large file from top to bottom and you may find the reason for the large size of the windows folder.
oh, and my windows xp pro …
Jump to Posttry ccleaner program .
www.ccleaner.com
Jump to Posttry to download atf cleaner... it might help to increase your hdd space...
or you go to command prompt..
then at c:\
type dir /s /w /pthen manually check each folder...how many bytes its consuming.. then if that particular folder got something suspicious that it's consuming a …
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