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re: Free space disappearing on HD.
Friday, November 20, 2009 at 2:33 pm
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Posted by epoch (87 messages posted)


As many have tried to say, some resident program is running in the background and 
creating either log files, temporary internet files that aren't being cleared automatically 
upon closing the browser, gaining data through regular use (saved games lists, emails, 
pretty much anything.)

The way to see what's taking up space on the drive is to use a program called SpaceMonger.  The "old version 
1.4.0" is free and doesn't require installation and I believe it can be used from 
any drive, not just the current one.  It may give you some idea of what's going on.


Epoch


On Friday, November 20, 2009 at 12:33 am, Reuven Ben-Daniel wrote:
>Th free space on my HD has today started to disappear. I have deleted files, but
>the free space continues to drop. I have checked with Avast Anti virus , SpyBot ,MalWare,
>and all come up negative. Checked with CCleaner and also did a search for any large
>unknown files. But I cannot find where the free space has, and is going.Please help.




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-Free space disappearing on HD. (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 12:33 am)
-re: Free space disappearing on HD. (Keith Stanier: Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 4:28 am)
*re: Free space disappearing on HD. (Kevinh: Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 5:32 am)
-re: Free space disappearing on HD. (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 5:57 am)
-re: Free space disappearing on HD. (Ricer46: Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 7:02 am)
-re: Free space disappearing on HD. (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 7:41 am)
*re: Free space disappearing on HD. (Ricer46: Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 8:20 am)
-re: Free space disappearing on HD. (Steve: Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 9:06 am)
-re: Free space disappearing on HD. (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 10:24 am)
-re: Free space disappearing on HD. (Steve: Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 10:55 am)
-re: Free space disappearing on HD. (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 11:01 am)
-re: Free space disappearing on HD. (Steve: Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 11:14 am)
*re: Free space disappearing on HD. (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Sat, Nov 21, 2009, 2:16 am)
-re: Free space disappearing on HD. (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Sat, Nov 21, 2009, 4:02 am)
*re: Free space disappearing on HD. (Steve: Sat, Nov 21, 2009, 5:33 am)
-re: Free space disappearing on HD. (Ricer46: Sat, Nov 21, 2009, 9:48 am)
-re: Free space disappearing on HD. (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Sat, Nov 21, 2009, 10:59 am)
-re: Free space disappearing on HD. (Adam Bradley: Sat, Nov 21, 2009, 4:21 pm)
-re: Free space disappearing on HD. (caveman: Sat, Nov 21, 2009, 7:16 pm)
-re: Free space disappearing on HD. (Adam Bradley: Sat, Nov 21, 2009, 9:34 pm)
*re: Free space disappearing on HD. (Pete: Sat, Dec 5, 2009, 6:39 pm)
-re: Free space disappearing on HD. (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Wed, Nov 25, 2009, 8:00 am)
-re: Free space disappearing on HD. (MartinM: Wed, Nov 25, 2009, 10:24 am)
-re: Free space disappearing on HD. (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Wed, Nov 25, 2009, 11:34 am)
-re: Free space disappearing on HD. (MartinM: Wed, Nov 25, 2009, 11:45 am)
-re: Free space disappearing on HD. (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Wed, Nov 25, 2009, 11:29 pm)
-re: Free space disappearing on HD. (MartinM: Wed, Nov 25, 2009, 11:52 pm)
-re: Free space disappearing on HD. (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Thu, Nov 26, 2009, 3:28 am)
-re: Free space disappearing on HD. (MartinM: Thu, Nov 26, 2009, 4:16 am)
*re: Free space disappearing on HD. (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Thu, Nov 26, 2009, 4:51 am)
-re: Free space disappearing on HD. (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Fri, Nov 27, 2009, 3:32 am)
*re: Free space disappearing on HD. (MartinM: Fri, Nov 27, 2009, 10:40 am)
-re: Free space disappearing on HD. (epoch: Fri, Nov 27, 2009, 9:10 pm)
*re: Free space disappearing on HD. (Reuven Ben-Daniel: Fri, Nov 27, 2009, 11:06 pm)
*re: Free space disappearing on HD. (caveman: Sat, Nov 21, 2009, 6:53 pm)
*re: Free space disappearing on HD. (Steve: Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 7:50 am)
*re: Free space disappearing on HD. (Ricer46: Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 7:05 am)
*re: Free space disappearing on HD. (Sebastian: Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 11:19 am)
*re: Free space disappearing on HD. (epoch: Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 2:33 pm)
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