Solve : super space loss?

1.	Solve : super space loss?
Answer» Hey all Im using a xp home edition pc its not very good , 256mb ram 60 gb hard rive but a radeon 9250 graphics card . my problem is in docments and setting its saying there nearly 20 GB THATS RIGHT 20GB WORTH OF crap in there i have checked theres nofing , no hidden files nofing . its taken up a lot of space i really need . Does anyone have a clue to what this may be . I have ran ccleaner gave me 2 gbs worth of space bk through system restores i didnt know i had on here . Please help. Thanks for your time What protection are you using? Found anything lately?I am using avg now , my pc was picking up trojans all the time 1 a hour i think it was mad worms as well and a lot of illegal access to my pc was blocked by norton . But its in my docment and settings and i cnt seem to see anything theres always a clue as to wether it would be a virus and my hard drive hasnt got no of the simtims for a virus . I have asked nearly 70 people about this all come bk blank . In my windows folder theres about 3gb wirth of compents and files witch is normal but theres nofing in doxment and settings other than normal files .Try running AVG is safe mode with system restore turned off. Also, Spybot would be a good thing to install if it's not on there. Do you have a real Windows CD that says Microsoft all over it if needed?And how many user profiles are on this machine ? ?Quote from: richenstony on May 14, 2007, 04:35:59 PM my problem is in docments and setting its saying there nearly 20 GB THATS RIGHT 20GB WORTH OF crap in there i have checked theres nofing , no hidden files nofing . Exactly how does docments and setting tell you this? Exactly where have you "checked"?1. 1 profile just mine 2. It tells me theres 19gb of files on folders in there in owner but cookies my docments , faverites ,start menu and thats alll thats in there no hidden files just them . 3. 4. I have a funny feeling theres a virus thats cloneing my files and folders and its placeing them somewhere where i cnt FIND to easly . AVG just picked up 3 virus's norton couldnt. also i would suggest more RAM for your computer. Maybe get 512 RAM instead of 256. Your computer tends to be slightly fasterQuote from: richenstony on May 15, 2007, 05:49:00 AM 2. It tells me theres 19gb of files on folders in there in owner but cookies my docments , faverites ,start menu and thats alll thats in there no hidden files just them How do those areas breakdown separately? Is My Documents, by far, the largest? Do you have many LARGE files in there, such as photos and music? Can you do some careful observation to try to verify that "cloneing my files and folders" you suspect is happening? In other words, right after you've run a virus scan and run CCleaner, check your drive space. Then, check again at certain intervals or after certain tasks, and see whether you see an UNEXPLAINABLE change. I found a great program to scan the HD and tell u exactly what is taking up space. Here's the download (Windows Directory STATUS a.k.a WinDirStat) Good Luck !

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Hey all Im using a xp home edition pc its not very good , 256mb ram 60 gb hard rive but a radeon 9250 graphics card .

my problem is in docments and setting its saying there nearly 20 GB THATS RIGHT 20GB WORTH OF crap in there i have checked theres nofing , no hidden files nofing . its taken up a lot of space i really need . Does anyone have a clue to what this may be . I have ran ccleaner gave me 2 gbs worth of space bk through system restores i didnt know i had on here . Please help. Thanks for your time What protection are you using? Found anything lately?I am using avg now , my pc was picking up trojans all the time 1 a hour i think it was mad worms as well and a lot of illegal access to my pc was blocked by norton . But its in my docment and settings and i cnt seem to see anything theres always a clue as to wether it would be a virus and my hard drive hasnt got no of the simtims for a virus . I have asked nearly 70 people about this all come bk blank . In my windows folder theres about 3gb wirth of compents and files witch is normal but theres nofing in doxment and settings other than normal files .Try running AVG is safe mode with system restore turned off. Also, Spybot would be a good thing to install if it's not on there.

Do you have a real Windows CD that says Microsoft all over it if needed?And how many user profiles are on this machine ? ?Quote from: richenstony on May 14, 2007, 04:35:59 PM

my problem is in docments and setting its saying there nearly 20 GB THATS RIGHT 20GB WORTH OF crap in there i have checked theres nofing , no hidden files nofing .

Exactly how does docments and setting tell you this? Exactly where have you "checked"?1. 1 profile just mine
2. It tells me theres 19gb of files on folders in there in owner but cookies my docments , faverites ,start menu and thats alll thats in there no hidden files just them .
3.
4. I have a funny feeling theres a virus thats cloneing my files and folders and its placeing them somewhere where i cnt FIND to easly . AVG just picked up 3 virus's norton couldnt.
also i would suggest more RAM for your computer. Maybe get 512 RAM instead of 256.
Your computer tends to be slightly fasterQuote from: richenstony on May 15, 2007, 05:49:00 AM

2. It tells me theres 19gb of files on folders in there in owner but cookies my docments , faverites ,start menu and thats alll thats in there no hidden files just them

How do those areas breakdown separately? Is My Documents, by far, the largest? Do you have many LARGE files in there, such as photos and music?

Can you do some careful observation to try to verify that "cloneing my files and folders" you suspect is happening? In other words, right after you've run a virus scan and run CCleaner, check your drive space. Then, check again at certain intervals or after certain tasks, and see whether you see an UNEXPLAINABLE change.

I found a great program to scan the HD and tell u exactly what is taking up space.
Here's the download (Windows Directory STATUS a.k.a WinDirStat)

Good Luck !

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