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I have an 80 gig HD and it show 74 gigs are being used. There is no way I am using that much. It did say this morning I only had 128 mb left and I know I had gigs left. uninstall as many things as I could. Looked at the programs and looks to me like only at the most 30 gigs should be used up. Is there a program that will show me what is using all the disk space up. I am running windows 7.
sorry I guess i should have up this in the windows 7 catagory. I would move it there but dont know how
I've moved it for you :)
80 gigs is not really enough for Win7 - it does use a lot of space. Mine, for example, is using getting on for half of a 200gig partition. You can clear a bit of room by deleting System Restore points, but really the only long-term answer is to get a bigger drive :(
Morning supersparks, already did the restore point thing.Money little tight that is why i havent got a bigger drive yet. Is there a free program to show me where all the file usage is being used, looked on explorer but doesnt show enough for me
I have a win 7 machine on an 80 gig drive...I don't have a ton of apps on it...but I do a have ton of free space. (approx 55 gigs)
You can weeks at the following site looking at all the goodies they have..and they have several apps that will help:
http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/freeware.html
Thats what I am saying, I should have more that 5 gigs
Did space sniffer,what is pagefile.sys and hiberfile.sys . both use together 6 gigs alone
Pagefile.sys is your paging file (virtual memory). You need that one. If you don't need to hibernate the PC, you can delete the hibernation file (hyberfil.sys) though, which will be equal in disk space to the amount of RAM you have installed. To do that, type "power shell" without the quotes into the Start search box, and then at the command prompt, type "powercfg -h off" without the quotes.
just ran windirstat.nice program. But really AVG9 is using 39 Gigs? What the hey!
It shows in the avg directory there is something called emc using 37 gigs. Does anyone know anything about this?
Need to try to be much more specific please;)Quote:
something called emc
Have you looked in the AVG folder?
Lets put it this way I just got rid of AVG9 and now have 43 gigs of free HD space. When I ran windirstat program it showed that avg was using up 37.5 gigs and 36 of it was in folder call EMC in the AVG tree. Went to look at the AVG folder in explorer and didnt show the EMC folder and said the AVG folder was using mb of disk space not 37 gigs. All I know is just unistalled the avg and got 37.5 more gigs of free space. Told AVG about it on there uninstall questioner.But for now will put another Antivirus program on
Use this:
Microsoft Security Essentials
By far the best of the free AV programs, IMO. And uses very few resources too :)
does it scan email?
the question is what caused the 37 gigs being used on avg
super sparks you are always on here and will tke your word on that. I have been on virtual dr as long as you ,since 2000
Have you done a good virus/trojan/spyware scan lately?
AVG doesn't use that much space. Mine has been installed for a year and I just checked it and its using 81mb's.
Sounds like you have something that was dumping data into that directory for some reason. I looked in AVG and there is nothing there that would cause this problem. So there is something somewhere that filled that file up.
Always keep up to date with malwarebytes and superantispyware. Googled the problem and saw a forum were someone was getting on avg something called dump files and it was puttting 500mb a day in the directory,I myself have used AVG for quite a while and recommended it and installed it on alot of freinds but that was nuf for me to uninstall
Yeah I just found that and came back to mention it. See you found the problem.
They say it is caused by something in AVG Crashing. Its nothing specific doing it, it seems to be different on each system, so they don't have a solution as of yet. Probably won't either since this has been going ona couple of years now...:(
Seems like avg should let people know about this problem and tell them to uninstall. I was down to 128Mb .I am pretty sure that the computer would crash after the was no free space on hd.
Your computer won't crash. You'll just keep getting warnings about Low disk space and you'll get to where you can do anything due to it. But, it won't actually crash or hurt it.
AVG should let people know, unfortunately most of these people dont want people to know whats going on.
Glad you found your problem and it is now fixed.
Well if the word keeps spreading like this it might just bite them in the butt.Lol ,already informed all freinds of this issue and others should do the same. Guess this subject is closed. Have a good evening, Getting lots of snow here in Ohio
I'm going install a new computer with Win7 H-Premium and a 500GB hard drive. Before I start, I want to make sure some issues on hard drive partitioning. I know that Win7 comes with its utility but its function is quite limited. Therefore, I need to well plan ahead such that resizing a partition can be avoided in the future.
1. Is there any 3rd party software, similar to PartitionMagic, which can allow me to add/delete/resize a partition and even merge 2 partitions after installation is completed.
2. Can I relocate the position of a partition such that I can add a new by the Win7. For example, I partition the 500GB into 250GB for C and 250GB for D. Later, I want to add a E. Can I resize the C to 200GB, D to 200GB and add E at the end as 100GB?
Thanks for your advice.
100 for C:\ is better.
May I suggest reading this article.
http://www.petri.co.il/the-ultimate-...rtitioning.htm
It seems to cover what you want to do.
1) There is the excellent and free Gparted:Quote:
Originally Posted by comp_see
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
2) You can resize partitions with Win7's Disk management, but there are restrictions on what can be done. In the scenario that you suggest, you could shrink D: and add another E: partition, but you would not be able to shrink C: (unless you were to delete D: altogether first.
Sparks, I've gotta disagree on this one. He could easily shrink both D and C, however that would leave 2 non-contiguous 50 Gig unallocated spaces. One on either side of the D partition.Quote:
Originally Posted by SuperSparks
He could then "move" the D over towards the C, however it would involve moving a lot of data which takes a monstrously long time and raises the risk of errors so I don't recommend it.