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StevieL
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Wheres my memory gone?

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Right on my Acer Aspire 5610 laptop, about 3 years old, 80gb hard drive, Im running out of memory on my hard drive and cant find out why?

My main source is my C: drive, but thats got no music, movies or pictures on it, but its nearing its limit of 35gb, I've looked but cant find any big files that would be clogging it up?

I only use this for internet browsing, and music (About 20gb on my D: drive), I dont do word processing, or use it for work of any kind?

I deleted loads of programs, yet I still got loads of stuff on it?

What is this likely to be? Any tips on how to get rid of unwanted things?

Im a compter gimp so be gentle :lol:
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Ekona
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Re: Wheres my memory gone?

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Temporary Internet files.
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SamUK
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Re: Wheres my memory gone?

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Gigs of them?

Thats some serious browsing Stevie lol.
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JohnnyC
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Re: Wheres my memory gone?

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Windows bloat.

Thanks Microsoft :roll:
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un1eash
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Re: Wheres my memory gone?

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Do a disk cleanup and defrag.
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StevieL
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Re: Wheres my memory gone?

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Just been looking again....

In my docs & settings, I have 5gb taken up, which is probably ok, and I got a folder on my C: drive named 'WINDOWS' which seems to have a lot of system type files, which has taken 14.5gb :-k Im guessing thats not normal?
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SFLee
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Re: Wheres my memory gone?

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that is normal

window have temp file
empty all temp files internet one and windows one

empty the recycler

and if you have norton empty the protected recycler

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Ekona
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Re: Wheres my memory gone?

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If you gave Norton best delete that too. It's awful.
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simpson_eh
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Re: Wheres my memory gone?

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app data
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jon_st205
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Re: Wheres my memory gone?

Post by jon_st205 »

Important distinction - you are running short of disk space, not memory. Common mistake but rather an important one :)

The good news is that you can do loads of things to recover disk space.

What OS are you using? Do you have lots of space on your D: drive partition? You can change the partition sizes to give more to C:
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StevieL
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Re: Wheres my memory gone?

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jon_st205 wrote:Important distinction - you are running short of disk space, not memory. Common mistake but rather an important one :)

The good news is that you can do loads of things to recover disk space.

What OS are you using? Do you have lots of space on your D: drive partition? You can change the partition sizes to give more to C:


OS is Windows XP, I've been storing my musics and videos on my D: drive, but I just bought a Terrabyte external HD that I plan on transferring everything to.

I have AVG, I deleted Norton as it was crap!
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