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    C: drive disk space decreasing?

    i am using vista home premium

    my C: drive disk space is decreasing even though i never install anything

    why is that so?


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    Re: C: drive disk space decreasing?

    Welcome
    More than even odds that its shadow copies
    To find out for sure download windirstat and see everything that is on your hard drive.
    http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to...pace-in-vista/
    http://windirstat.info/

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    Re: C: drive disk space decreasing?

    shadow copies...hmm.

    so what is the next step after i download windirstat and see what is on my hard drive?

    thanks

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    Re: C: drive disk space decreasing?

    You analyze windirstat, anything that is not needed or wanted can be removed.
    May I also suggest ccleaner, to clean up a lot, really a lot of crap. Just do not check that you want to check registry items.
    System Restore - disk space

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    Re: C: drive disk space decreasing?

    thanks a lot for your help

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    Re: C: drive disk space decreasing?

    Your kind of quick with the mouse. I think that I added a lot before you answered. Check my posts, again and good luck

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    Re: C: drive disk space decreasing?

    yes i am looking at the links now. i downloaded WinDirStat and it has already finish searching. now i am analyzing them

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    Re: C: drive disk space decreasing?

    I have windirstat, Im sure that you will like it.

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    Re: C: drive disk space decreasing?

    there are so many files which are unknown to me. that is surprising

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    Re: C: drive disk space decreasing?

    If you want to restore a lot of space. Use ccleaner to delete all but the last restore point, it may be needed in the future. Then look at windirstat, again. Ccleaner will delete all your cookies, unless you make an intelligent scan first, and you will have to sign in again to your webpages etc.

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