Mystery 20 Gb.

[tomtootles]

I have 90Gb hard drive, compartmentalised into two 45Gb drives, C and D.
When I check properties on drive C, it tells me that I have 44 Gb.used space. Also when I'm downloading, I have to abort due to lack of space. But when I add up my total usage on C in explorer, I've only used up about 10 Gb.
The other drive D tells me in properties that I have 20 Gb used space, and this is confirmed when I check my usage in explorer.
Can anyone suggest what happened to the missing 34 Gb?
Thanks in anticipation.
Tom Reilly

 

[Aunty Jack]

Hello Tomtootles,

I love mysteries. Go to Folder Options in the Control Panel and set Views to show hidden files. Back out of Control Panel and open my computer or what ever you may have called it. First open the Windows folder and look for any files $NTUninst or similar. These will be blue, not black. These come from Microsoft Updates. Delete the lot, they have done their work and are no longer needed. DO NOT UNINSTALL IE8. The others, quite safe to do so, been doing that for 12 years or more with XP. Look for Bluesprig Jetclean, Wise Disk Cleaner, Ccleaner, and Hard Drive Powerwash on Snapfiles or Major Geeks or just type them into your browser search. All are freeware. Install all and run:-

Ccleaner
Bluesprig Jetclean
Wise Disk Cleaner
Hard Drive Powerwash

First on Drive C: and Drive D: or whatever hit Properties and then do a double clean up. First the easy one and then the Options to remove old restore points.

Then run the utils in the order above. Then defrag. I use Auslogics Disk Defrag.

Hopefully the Show Hidden Files in Folder Options will show you how much space is taken by Windows Updates and the utilities will clean out all the rubbish.

Good luck but a missing 20 Gb suggests something not so simple may be at the root of the problem. I hope not.

Cheers from Aunty Jack.

 

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