I did a bit of research on this, and all points to a virus or trojan infection. Try running a scan using your Antivirus software to check for any infections, which Malwarebytes did not detect.
Hi Royan thanks so much for your quick reply. I did everything that was suggested - even deleting the service packs - and it only freed about another 500MB. Anything else you can maybe suggest?
Did you check for any infections on your computer. You can download Malwarebytes available on the interet to run a scan and remove infections if they are any. I found the below link helpful as well, its a 3rd party link.
I checked for infections with Malwarebytes but it found none. Also downloaded both of those third party programs and they freed 10MB between the two of them. Do you perhaps have anything else I can try? Thank you so very much.
Click My computer,click on tools on top, folder options, then view, scroll down and enable show hidden folders, click apply and ok. Then open C: Drive, go into documents and settings then your account folder then hover your mouse over the local settings folder, then temp folder and delete everything in there.
Right click on your recycle bin, and empty folder.
Thanks so much to both of you. It turned out to be a sort of Trojan: a hidden folder that had taken all my documents and had made about a hundred copies off all of them in one place. "Spacesniffer" is amazing too and it helped with a lot of other things. Thank you both very, very, very much!
DELL-Royan S
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September 17th, 2012 04:00
Hi,
I did a bit of research on this, and all points to a virus or trojan infection. Try running a scan using your Antivirus software to check for any infections, which Malwarebytes did not detect.
Thank you.
DELL-Royan S
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September 16th, 2012 23:00
Hi,
Welcome to the Community. I suggest you use the below link from Microsoft to help free up some disk space on your computer.
support.microsoft.com/.../956324
Let me know if that helped.
Thank you.
WrittenParody
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September 17th, 2012 00:00
Hi Royan thanks so much for your quick reply. I did everything that was suggested - even deleting the service packs - and it only freed about another 500MB. Anything else you can maybe suggest?
DELL-Royan S
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September 17th, 2012 00:00
Hi,
Did you check for any infections on your computer. You can download Malwarebytes available on the interet to run a scan and remove infections if they are any. I found the below link helpful as well, its a 3rd party link.
www.tomshardware.com/.../251195-45-disk-space-slow
Thank you.
WrittenParody
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September 17th, 2012 03:00
Hi
I checked for infections with Malwarebytes but it found none. Also downloaded both of those third party programs and they freed 10MB between the two of them. Do you perhaps have anything else I can try? Thank you so very much.
WrittenParody
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September 17th, 2012 03:00
Hi
Did that all. Still didn't help anything. Thanks.
DELL-Royan S
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September 17th, 2012 03:00
Hi,
Click My computer,click on tools on top, folder options, then view, scroll down and enable show hidden folders, click apply and ok. Then open C: Drive, go into documents and settings then your account folder then hover your mouse over the local settings folder, then temp folder and delete everything in there.
Right click on your recycle bin, and empty folder.
Thank you.
MicroTest
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September 17th, 2012 04:00
Here is a cute little program called "Spacesniffer"
It's portable,it's free ware - no installation required
Run it as Admin to be sure that it also shows hidden files
It's worth a try.
www.uderzo.it/.../download.html
latest version is 1.1.4.0
WrittenParody
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September 17th, 2012 05:00
Thanks so much to both of you. It turned out to be a sort of Trojan: a hidden folder that had taken all my documents and had made about a hundred copies off all of them in one place. "Spacesniffer" is amazing too and it helped with a lot of other things. Thank you both very, very, very much!