My system is:  HP Pavilion DV 9500 Notebook PC/ AMD Turion 64X2 mobile tech TL 58   1.90 GHZ/ RAM 1.00 GB/ Vista/ FREE AVG anti-virus

My C Drive says I have only 5.95 GB free out of 140 GB


I recall a window opening saying I was RUNNING out of memory on my hard drive and would need to de-frag or free up some memory.  I restarted the computer and noticed my background had disappeared as had all my media files( photos, music, videos).  However when I went to the tab on the start menu marked, "Recently Viewed", I could pull up a photo but if I went to the folder where it was located my computer shows the folder as empty.  I tried system restore with no luck outside of my background reappearing but in the folder where that file was located it shows no files.  I don't believe any of the files were deleted as the amount of free memory has not decreased.  I hope this is enough information.  Thanks for your help.  Try using defraggler and see if it helps http://www.piriform.com/defraggler. But free up some space first by BACKING up certain files and alternately you could use Ccleaner on the same link and check if out of memory error still PERSIST. Quote

de-frag or free up some memory.  I restarted the computer and noticed my background had disappeared as had all my media files( photos, music, videos).

...I recall a window opening saying I was running out of memory on my hard drive and would need to de-frag or free up some memory...