C drive using 500MB daily

[flymeng]

I have Vista Business SP2. My C drive is filling up 500MB aday. I will run out of disk space soon. I have disabled restoration, paging, indexing and hibernation. I have scanned my C drive for virus. It is clean. Does anyone have any ideas?

 

[richc46]

Welcome
Download windirstat and lets see if we can figure this out.
WinDirStat - Windows Directory Statistics
How to Fix Shrinking Disk Space in Vista « My Digital Life
Clean the disc
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76073-disk-cleanup.html
All this being said it may be the shadow copies (system restore) that takes the space.

 

[Manyenya]

Hi
try using AVG pc tuneup or Ccleaner to clean up junk files; including unwanted system restore points from your Pc, also ensure that you defragment your harddisk.

 

[flymeng]

WinDirStat is good. It showed me the temporary files which can be deleted on my C drive. I recovered 5GB! I noticed that winsxs and installer are huge. I managed to reduce winsxs by 500MB by running a clean up.
Pagefil.sys is 3.5GB. I disabled paging and wondering if I can delete Pagefil.sys.

Thank you all for recommending tools to clean and tune up my PC.

 

[richc46]

Can I delete pagefile.sys? What is it?
Dont tamper with winsxs, its an important juncture point.

 

[flymeng]

Thanks again, Richc46.

 

[richc46]

Dont forget this from my first post
How to Fix Shrinking Disk Space in Vista « My Digital Life