Local Disk (C:)

[DEEKAYPEE8569]

.....shows red. 41.1GB free of 571GB.

I just can't figure out what's taking up all the space. No pics or vids in storage.

 

[Hank]

porn cookies

 

[vraiblonde]

porn cookies

You took the words right out of my fingers.

DKP, when was the last time you dumped your cache?

 

[DEEKAYPEE8569]

ha.....ha.....
Well, it could be from when I remembered to hook up the doll; and attempted to create a reasonable "Lisa" facsimilie.

 

[glhs837]

You are most likely a local archive site for the NSA, they have gone to a distributed storage model rather than continuing to buy petabytes by the whatever the hell comes after that

"Hey, Citizen, we have noticed you don't appear to be using those 100 gigabytes, let us just park your neighborhoods collected nannycam/webcam/security/traffic light footage there til we need it, thanks bunches, Love, The NSA"

 

[merc669]

Run a Clean Disk then Defrag and finally run Check Disk from the different tools menu when you right click the drive and then properties. I select all boxes when I clean my drive to get rid of junk. Also clear the cache in your browser. Might free up some space for you.
Bill

 

[DEEKAYPEE8569]

Ah, yes.....the much neglected and often forgotten cache file.
I run a "clean disk" and a "defrag" on all drives, yet the drive space indicator on my c: drive continues to show red, with most of the drive space used.....say +-90%.
Guess I'll tackle the cache file later. :shrug:

 

[thalor]

There are plenty of hidden folders on C:

There is a free program called WinDirStat that will analyze the drive and show you where the free space is being taken up.

You can manually do it as well, check in c:\Users\--UserName--\AppData (UserName is the name of the users on the system)

Appdata is hidden and stores a lot of stuff.

 

[GURPS]

There are plenty of hidden folders on C:

There is a free program called WinDirStat that will analyze the drive and show you where the free space is being taken up.

You can manually do it as well, check in c:\Users\--UserName--\AppData (UserName is the name of the users on the system)

Appdata is hidden and stores a lot of stuff.

and windows 7 makes it very hard to clean out the 'SysVol' folder in XP you could take ownership and empty that sucker out ..... now, not so much

 

[Danzig]

http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/

good, free program to see where the "big" folders are.

 

[GURPS]

There are plenty of hidden folders on C:

There is a free program called WinDirStat that will analyze the drive and show you where the free space is being taken up.

http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/

good, free program to see where the "big" folders are.

we used both at work to scan the network drives and send a usage report to corporate every month

 

[GURPS]

.....shows red. 41.1GB free of 571GB.

have you emptied the trash lately ?

 

[DEEKAYPEE8569]

have you emptied the trash lately ?

I take the trash out every night. :snort:

 

[DEEKAYPEE8569]

I use AVAST and Adaware to scan for malware. Usually, before I do anything, I update both programs and run each one separately. Sometimes, I'll run each program separately before I shut the laptop down for the day, but I update the programs before surfing the net.

Could each of those programs be producing cache or 'scan history' files, thereby eating up disc space?

 

[GURPS]

Could each of those programs be producing cache or 'scan history' files, thereby eating up disc space?

Yes potentially


https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=97815.0

- avast! Log file locations:
- Windows 2000, Windows XP - C:\Documents And Settings\All Users\Application Data\Avast Software\Avast\Log
- Vista, Win7 - C:\ProgramData\Avast Software\Avast\Log. Some may also be in the respective \Report folder.

But as far as I'm aware there is no setting where you can change the log file locations.


or

As of 04/20/2014, and with Win 7 Ulltimate 64-bit, I'm finding my Avast! log files here:

C:\Users\All Users\AVAST Software\Avast\log

This is good coding practice because Microsoft discourages using the installation folders for installed programs to store such data. Instead, locations like the one above are preferred.

Of course, MS is the first to break their own rules. ;-) MS SQL Server, for examples, stores its database files under its installed folder.