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Old 05-18-2009, 05:27 PM   #1
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XP home...I was trying to install something on my ML's computer and it said there was not enough room on the hd. So I went and looked at the properties of the c drive and it said something like 67gb cap and 319mb free. There is no way she has 66 gigs of stuff on that box. So, I went exploring and adding up the usage of all of her folders it adds up to something like 5 or 6 gigs not 66. I deleted temps, recycle bin etc, but it didn't help much and I don't see much else to delete...no music, movies etc. She don't have internet access there, did for a while, but not now.

What could it be?

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Old 05-18-2009, 07:49 PM   #2
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Try disk clean up as well. delete all the stuff in there. You might have some space taken up from old compressed files, then defrag.. I would also go to the windows folder, prefetch, and delete those as well.
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Old 05-19-2009, 06:17 AM   #4
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Ok, thanks. I dnld cclean and will take up there this weekend and see what happens.

Sorry I put this in the wrong forum. I meant to put it in the XP forum...
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Old 05-21-2009, 09:27 AM   #6
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You need to enable display of system and hidden files/folders. There is probably a ton of temp files hidden.
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