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Hello, I have a c and d hard drive, the C hardrive is 29 gigs big and the D is 7 gigs big. I found out that i have 1 gig of mem left on my c drive and the other day i had 13.  I looked at my folders and saw that my Windows folder takes up 16 gigs on its own and i need help reducing the size. Thank you
08-06-2006 11:47 PM
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RE: Windows Folder to big
If it suddenly jumped in size you should do a virus/spyware scan... Cause I don't see why it would increase THAT much in size.
08-07-2006 12:06 AM
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Do you suggest using specific progs or any will do?
08-07-2006 12:12 AM
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RE: Windows Folder to big
my guess is any, they all do the job afaik

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08-07-2006 12:26 AM
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For an update for you guys, I DID a scan and found some spyware....but I also saw that after deleteing a few files I got about 3 gigs bck but windows grew another gig big...
08-07-2006 02:31 AM
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RE: Windows Folder to big
Hmm... Which program did you use for a Spyware scan... M73A was right that they pretty much all do a good job... but I'm just wondering for personal reasons.

Now I'd suggest doing a virus scan as well... I don't know if a virus would do this or not? But it's better safe then sorry really. Shouldn't take too too long. Just do it before you go to bed tonight or something and check it in the morning or something.
08-07-2006 02:37 AM
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RE: Windows Folder to big
Download CCleaner, if you have not deleted your temp files, its going to help quite a bit
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08-07-2006 03:31 AM
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I did delete my temp files already but i'll still try the download...but is there anyway to delete some useless files from windows to reduce the size if it really got that big for real.
08-07-2006 05:43 AM
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RE: Windows Folder to big
Try to find out what file, folder in your windows map has grown that large ,i suggest using "Disk Recon" from Blacksunsoftware
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08-07-2006 06:41 AM
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WinDirStat will scan a folder/drive and tell you what files/folders are taking up what percentage of used space. It even gives you a pretty picture.
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