disk usage

Hi, I have a laptop (HP Probook 4430s), with Windows 7 as the OS. The problem I face now is lagging in some programs when I use them. For example : a) When I use the putty(already sshed into the server), and then type commands the words get stuck/hang for a while before it continues to...

Hello all, After installing the April batch of Windows 8 Updates, I noticed there was a dramatic increase in my 60 GB SSD hard disk usage (almost a 5 GB increase right after the Updates). To cut to the quick, I determined that the updates had arbitrarily increased the size of my hiberfil.sys...

I have a REAL problem with slowness on my laptop, every program takes seconds to load and I am very tired of seeing the "not responding" message when trying to save docs, images - or even launch a program. Online it's the same thing, editing a Wordpress site and hitting Publish - can result in...

Hello All, I am using win 7 64 installed on a 240gb ssd It has suddenly started showing nearly full. I don't keep any data on the drive just programs and if I add up the contents of the folders (not hidden)it only comes to 35 gb, how can I check what it filling up my drive ?

It seems the more I delete programs and files, my disc space is still being used up, it is almost 1/2. What would I have to do to reduce what maybe loading on the disc space ? teak

Hi. I don't see any hidden partitions neither in "Disk Manager" nor in "MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition". It turns Windows 7 may don't create a hidden partiton? And use for BOOT, bootmgr and System Volume Information the same partition as for Windows dir? And what does it depend: create...

I'm just curious. I have a local disc C: and two storage drives. The Win7 operating system and a handful of applications are on the C: The folders on the drive add total about 28G. Yet, the blue bar shows 85G used and 85G free on the C: Why is this? Thx.

I have been using my desktop for a while now, and I notice that even when the memory, CPU are active or inactive but not at a high usage level, a single task (such as right clicking on a tray icon) or opening a program will stall the hard drive, as disk access shoots up to 100% or near it...

In my Win 7 Windows folder I have a Prefetch folder and in it is a folder called: "ReadyBoot. What is it?"

Hi. for the last 3 weeks something has been filling up my C: and I don't know what it is. when I reboot the lost space is back to free space. I have to reboot every 12 hours or so. I have a Sysinternals ProcMon Log for anyone to look at and tell me what the culprit is. WinDirStat doesn't help me...

Hi all i'm running Windows 7 Professional x64 and i'm having some trouble with my SSD. When i boot up my PC, windows 7 boots and everything is fine. After a few minutes i see the disk usage led permanently ON and the PC blocks, so i can't use it. This continues for about 3-4 minutes, then...

I've got 4 hard disks (1 system, 3 storage) that are varying degrees of full from 25%-85%. Occasionally, my system will just bog down and I can hear what sounds like a hard drive winding up or something and my system locks up for maybe 5 seconds and then I can use it again. This seems to happen...

Hi All I am new to this form and hope this is the right place to get help. My C: dreive is a 128GB SSD which devided into 70 and 50 GB. Windows and all programs are installed on 70GB, the 50GB drive is free. All programs are about 11GB, Win7 ultimate 64 is about 17GB so all together it should...

Explorer displays wrong "Size on disk" for junction file. Link Removed

could be that the win 7 folder is 10.5GB? i have nothing special in there beside the normal stuff and the temp folder is empty

Hello, I just got my brand new computer today, it replaced an ancient HP Pavillion that was new around the time XP came out. My new computer is a Dell Studio XPS, and it has this Windows 7 on it, and I have a problem, so here I am. What my problem is is that I have this iPod, 5th generation...

I can hear my C hard drive thrashing away when my system is idle, and even when my system is running programs. Thought it might be Firefox that's using the hard drive a lot - checked it out, uses the hd a bit but no more than usual, but I can still hear the hard drive clicking away. So I close...

Everytime I start Windows, for almost 2 minutes after login, the hard drive read-writes are completed maxed out. MSE and what not starts before then, but Messenger, browsers etc can't be started until the load drops off some. I've attached my bootlog and system info, as requested by TorrentG...

I was using windows 7 backup feature for my system image backups. The problem I'm having is that each time it created an image backup to my (E drive -320 Gb, set to back up daily, my hard drive space kept getting smaller. A 320 gb drive reads at 298 gb then the backup created would be between 70...

I have the following desktop: Link Removed My “MO” is generally to keep things “default” unless there is a good reason why I should change the way something is set up. An example is that I read SSDs wear out over time so it is better to put the paging file on a separate disk. Hence, I...