Recently the disk space on my laptop's hard drive has been filling up and I can't figure out why, I was surprised to see that it was down to only about 10MB of free space a few weeks ago so I uninstalled some things, moved some other things to an external HD and freed up about 2GB, now a week or so later I'm back down to 83MB of free space. I deleted all my temporary internet files and that freed up about another 40MB but that still leaves about 1.9GB unaccounted for.......I haven't downloaded anything other than a few songs off iTunes, and I haven't installed any new programs so I can't figure out what is eating up all this disk space as soon as I free it up, any ideas what to look for?

8/5/2007 4:05:10 PM

stop being a queer.

8/5/2007 4:11:05 PM

WinDirStat - http://windirstat.info/

8/5/2007 4:11:32 PM

use a disk space analyzer program to see what your biggest folders and files are
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/jdiskreport.html

8/5/2007 4:12:55 PM

I bet you money it's your system restore snapshots (assuming you're running windows). These can consume up to 12% of your hard disk space. If you're careful about what you run on your machine, you probably don't even need system restore anyway. Deleting all your restore points can save tons of disk space.

Right-Click on My Computer -> System Restore tab -> drag the slider down to like 1-3%. That should be enough for 1 or 2 restore points.

[Edited on August 5, 2007 at 4:52 PM. Reason : ]

8/5/2007 4:50:24 PM

Thanks, I deleted a lot of the older restore points and that freed up about 200MB, I also downloaded that WinDirStat program and was able to find some huge files hiding out deep in subdirectories that I never would've found otherwise......I had one incomplete bittorent file that was 3GB for example and I haven't even used bittorent in months

8/5/2007 5:09:07 PM

Glad it helped.

8/5/2007 5:33:44 PM