So, I've got a 300gb hard drive for my computer, and it's about 8 months old. So far, It's been filled up about a third of the way. However, I can only account for less than 50gb of the space taken up. Could anyone explain what exactly is taking up the other 50gb? And is there any program I can use to remove this off my computer? Thanks for any help.
What slight said, go google CCleaner, Probably the best freeware program for this I can think of Clean your temp, backups, restore points, cache, all that good stuff.
Or follow my computer cleanout thread. It gets rid of System Profile files too. Whereas CCleaner doesn't.
Remember, HDDs do not equal exactly what they are advertised to be, usually 10 gigs under. ---------------- Now playing on Winamp: Amon Amarth - Death in Fire via FoxyTunes
Actually, technically they're exactly what's advertised. kilobyte = 1000 bytes kibibyte = 1024 bytes HDD manufacturers measure in precise kilobytes, Windows measures in precise kibibytes, but calls them kilobytes. When it takes more bytes to get your kilo/kibibyte, you get less of them.
defrag, delete your history on internet Explorer to do so go tools>internet options> under browsing history delete> Delete All. like whiteboi side before CCleaner is a great program to try. if your on vista---- Go back to windows XP or buy a mac.
okay thanks for all the help. I've already had CCleaner for a while, i run it like every day. The defrag got rid of like 5gb, found a few things to clean out, still leaves me with close to 30gb of unknown used up hdd space. and i included the windows folder in my known hard drive used up. I am using vista, and i'll check out your guide penguin.
Vista will cache alot of info on your computer so that it load things faster which takes up space. Take a look at this thread http://forums.techguy.org/windows-vista/54...hard-drive.html
