Earlier today I had more than 1Gb free space on my hard drive.

I scanned in a photo at 1200 dpi and when I tried to print it I was told there was not enough memory and then not enough space on my scratch disk. So I followed the instructions from "Help" on my Adobe PhotoDeluxe 2 and decreased the
memory. Then where it said if primary disk full change to secondary disk, I changed this from None to C:/

I still got the not enough space message when I tried to print again. So I checked drive C:/ and it showed 576Mb. I tried printing again unsuccessfully and my space went down to 319Mb.

I did a disk cleanup and deleted several games from my desktop. The hard space now showed 39.2Mb

I then uninstalled Photodeluxe with all my saved photos and this brought my space up to 118Mb.

I restarted the computer and checked again and I could hardly believe when the C:/ showed 39.2

I then tried a scan and after all errors were fixed my space was 144Mb.

I tried defragging next and it stuck at 54%. I restarted and the space had down to 128Mb.

I then did a Typical Restore and the space went down to 48mb

I've used the computer since then then on the internet, saving nothing apart from two normal emails and my space is down to 33.4Mb

How could I have lost so much space after deleting so much. Everything that went to the Recycle Bin was immediately deleted.

I have far less games, music or other items on my computer than I had earler today, yet I'm almost out of space.

Is there any way I can stop this crazy situation happening.

Please help, somebody.