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November 11th, 2004 18:00

Help! C Drive Memory just disappearing

Help! My C Drive memory is going down for no apparent reason!! I have deleted all unused programs and I just dont know what's going on. At the moment I am down to 13.2MB on a 9.66G drive. HELP!!
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  • lekha85

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    Posted November 11th, 2004 18:00

    Anti virus and firewall are fine but dunno how to sweep 4 spyware. can u tell me?
  • ejn63

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    Posted November 11th, 2004 18:00

    Antivirus, firewall and windows all up to date on critical patches? Have you swept the system of spyware?
  • whymewhynot

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    Posted November 11th, 2004 20:00

    Download  Spybot S&D and AdwareSE Personel, update both once installed and run one after the other.

    Do a google search for the websites to download from or go to download.com

    Both are free and will do a fair job of finding and spyware, and correcting it.

     

  • Ratz

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    Posted November 12th, 2004 03:00

    Check your System Restore. You may be acumulating too many restore points.
  • leduke30

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    Posted November 12th, 2004 03:00

    How long has it been since you went to Internet Options in Control Panel and on the General Tab clicked Delete Files? If you have not done this for a while, it may take a while to "haul the Trash". There is also a tab to Delete Cookies, but try the Adaware to clean out the malicious ones first. You can also click settings View Files and delete some of them manually. There is a particularly persistent ad service called Omniture which even Adaware does not pickup and delete. It puts in cookies that start 1shz2prbmdj and after a long string of gibberish at the very end omniture.com. The long string of garbage is apparently the reason Adaware does not pick it up on its scan. I cleaned these out manually yesterday and they are back, as I just looked.
  • lekha85

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    Posted November 12th, 2004 11:00

    I can't get anywhere near my sustem restore because my memory is apparently too low!
  • Ratz

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    Posted November 12th, 2004 23:00

    Click Start/All Program/Accessories/System Tools/Disk Clean Up.  Make sure all boxes are ticked and click OK. You want to perform these actions say yes. This may take some time to complete.
    Next repeat Start/All Program/Accessories/System Tools/Disk Clean Up and click tab with more options. On the bottom it will say System Restore Cleanup. Perform this action and see if this helps.
     
    Ratz
  • dj_cool

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    Posted November 15th, 2004 18:00

    Delete the contents of these folders

    C:\Windows\Temp

    C:\Windows\Prefetch

    C:\Dell\Drivers (yes, the original drivers are installed and these are disposable)

    Delete all internet files (Internet Options - Delete Files - Delete All Offline Content)

    Also run a check on the disk if bad sectors are building up. (Right click the C: in My Computer and Tools, Check Now)