disk cleanup

Pretty much overnight, the amount of free space in my local disk (C:) drive went from almost empty to almost full. I have a feeling I have a virus, though virus scan does not reveal anything out of the ordinary. Any suggestions?

OK so I had windows vista and i had a corrupt file. I installed the vista service pack 2, and this screwed everything up so that I could not boot up vista anymore. My school sells window 7 for $50 so i thought it would be a good time to do the upgrade. I put the disc in booted up and am now...

Hello all, I just upgraded to W7 tonight and I have a question (surprise...). I backed up all my files onto my other hard drives, and made a little list of all the programs i might need to istall because I wanted to to a clean install. To be honest, I don't remember which way I upgraded it...

How do I free up my C drive which is almost full?

After a failed "Endless Reboot" upgrade of Vista Home Premium 32 to 7 Home Premium 32 I finally did a custom (clean) install and got it running. In addition to the Windows.old folder I also have a folder called "$WINDOWS.~Q" I know this is leftover garbage from the failed upgrade, (should have...

dont know if this is the right place but i was wondering if anyone know a program that will remove junk and other unneeded files on 64 bit W7,i had unblue speedupmypc on my 32bit but doesnt work on 64bit,any help please?

Sooo I've never seen this problem and I don't really know where to start with it. I have two hard drives, Windows on the C and media on S, I decided to clear some space on S, as it was 4/5 full, and deleted a folder that was about 80 gigabytes. The weird thing is it went to the recycle bin...

I have 2 sets of these from repeated failed Windows 7 installs now and while it says I should go ahead and delete them, I cannot get them to go away for the life of me! I have tried doing the disk cleanup, but I don't have the option to clean up the previous Windows installation files. Any...

This is very aggrivating. especially since i usually run disk clean up almost everyday. when i run disk clean up it allows me to choose which partition i would like to clean up. i select the appropriate disk(c) and about half a minute later it shows the small box showing that its calculating...

hi guys my problem is that my 55gb hard drive is still full (about 3 gb spare) after installing windows 7... i do a disk cleanup, then then in the pop up window it says i can save 20mb, so i click the clean system files button, and it says i can free up 35gb.. thats right 35gb...so i click ok...

Hi W7 teams! I have two computers running 7100 build. Yesterday I have upgraded without any issue one of them to 7229, however the other one which is notebok Lenovo T61 at usual setup has problems to upgrade. All passes ok until installation reaches 21% of extracting files (3rd installation...

Hi, I just had a quick question. ok, so when I try to download a file from internet to my computer, I get this message: C:\Users\Craft\App Data\Local\Temp and it also says that it could not be saved because you (me) cannot change the contents. (I am the admin on my computer, so why can't...

Hi all, Okay, so I was happily running XP, fearing that upgrading to a newer version of Windows would kill my performance. Unfortunately, a need for 64-bit came up, and I upgraded to Win7... Confirming my worst fears. 12GB were used on the drive as of the install (I have a 30GB SSD and I have...

Ok so this is the problem: My thumbnails have stopped working,all of the sudden I see the paint and brush symbol on each picture in each folder. So far i have tried the following: going to folder options and to the View tab,then unchecking always show icons,never thumbnails several times... (no...

ok, so i got a little problem or rather a worry : i had 352mb of free space and a zip file of 470+mb on the same hdd. as i didnt need some of the files in that zip, i deleted them (around 50mb). i did so directly out of winzip 10, which actually makes a new file out of the old but without...

Hi I have a maxtor basics usb desktop 500 gig external hard drive and it doesn't seem to work. I plugged it in and windows said it was installing updates, that finished and said this was complete. I then went onto computer management and I can see it under device manager, and when I go into...

So far I like the RC. It doesn't crash or lock-up (IE8) like the Beta frequently did while browsing, and the "Delete Browsing History" function actually does the job now; when I do a disk cleanup, the temp files are already empty, whereas they were still there with the Beta. Shutdown takes...

My computer became infected with the Win32/virut virus last night. Having battled for hours this morning I think I have removed it. There is still an error when starting firefox (jl.chura.pc/rl) but that is not the question for now... During the clean up I performed a disk cleanup, which it...

I was just doing a disk cleanup in Vista Home Premium and noticed that many of the boxes are not ticked. I was wondering what is best to leave alone. I know that you can delete the Hibernation File cleaner, but then cannot use that option. Since I never use the Hybrid Seep or Hibernation (or...

I installed windows 7 over an XP installation that had Windows Steady State installed on it with a 10 GB cache. Steady State is incompatible with Windows 7 so cache.wdp is installed taking up 10GB of space but I can't use Steady State to delete it. Cache.wdp only shows up when I use a disk...