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Old August 1st 05, 03:37 AM
TKinHawaii
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Default Cannot find what is filing up disk

My son's machine has a 40GB drive partitioned into C..10GB and D..
29GB or so. All of a sudden he is getting messages that the C drive is
near capacity. Looking at properties of the C drive show that there is very
little
free space, yet there should be lots of free space. He has run scan disk,
defrag, virus program etc. all in Safe Mode and still something is dumping
lots of data into the drives memory. In the Win dir. it seems to show a large
volume in the Win.swp file but that is managed by WIN.

Any ideas how to approach this problem or what the problem could be? Should
he move all programs except WIN into the other drive, would that help ?

Thanks

TK
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Old August 1st 05, 07:12 AM
Mikhail Zhilin
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I would clean up Temporary folder (c:\windows\temp by default): after a
fresh restart delete ALL files and folders inside this folder, including
read-only, system and hidden ones (if Windows will report that any of
them are in use -- skip such files; there won't be too many of them).

Empty Temporary Internet Files folder:
Control Panel -- Internet Options -- General tab -- Temporary Internet
files: Delete files.

Isn't Norton Protected Bin installed by chance?

Win386.swp is a swap file (i.e. virtual memory). It can be even hundreds
of megabytes in size.

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On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 19:37:01 -0700, "TKinHawaii"
wrote:

My son's machine has a 40GB drive partitioned into C..10GB and D..
29GB or so. All of a sudden he is getting messages that the C drive is
near capacity. Looking at properties of the C drive show that there is very
little
free space, yet there should be lots of free space. He has run scan disk,
defrag, virus program etc. all in Safe Mode and still something is dumping
lots of data into the drives memory. In the Win dir. it seems to show a large
volume in the Win.swp file but that is managed by WIN.

Any ideas how to approach this problem or what the problem could be? Should
he move all programs except WIN into the other drive, would that help ?

Thanks

TK


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Old August 1st 05, 08:23 AM
Jeff Richards
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Do a search for all files (or all files newer than a certain date) and then
sort by size.
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"TKinHawaii" wrote in message
...
My son's machine has a 40GB drive partitioned into C..10GB and D..
29GB or so. All of a sudden he is getting messages that the C drive is
near capacity. Looking at properties of the C drive show that there is
very
little
free space, yet there should be lots of free space. He has run scan disk,
defrag, virus program etc. all in Safe Mode and still something is dumping
lots of data into the drives memory. In the Win dir. it seems to show a
large
volume in the Win.swp file but that is managed by WIN.

Any ideas how to approach this problem or what the problem could be?
Should
he move all programs except WIN into the other drive, would that help ?

Thanks

TK



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Old August 1st 05, 10:17 AM
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"Jeff Richards" wrote in message
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Do a search for all files (or all files newer than a certain date) and
then sort by size.



good advice.
if you end up with more than the 10,000 file limit...
just do an advanced search and specify:
larger than 50k


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Old August 1st 05, 03:01 PM
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Move the Windows swap file to the d: drive to free up some space. To do
this right-click My Computer. Then click the Performance tab. On this tab,
click the Virtual Memory button. Click Let me specify my own virtual memory
settings and change the Hard disk location to d:\. I would not change any
of the other settings but let Windows manage the size.

You can do the disk cleanup by going to Start, Programs, Accessories, System
Tools, Disk Cleanup. From here you can have the Disk Cleanup tool delete
files from Temporary Internet Files, Downloaded Program Files, Recycle Bin
and Temporary files.

Folder Size Shell Extension is a very handy free utility that will let you
view which folders are consuming the most space on your hard drive. You can
get it from he

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fil...d,15304,00.asp

PattyL


"TKinHawaii" wrote in message
...
My son's machine has a 40GB drive partitioned into C..10GB and D..
29GB or so. All of a sudden he is getting messages that the C drive is
near capacity. Looking at properties of the C drive show that there is
very
little
free space, yet there should be lots of free space. He has run scan disk,
defrag, virus program etc. all in Safe Mode and still something is dumping
lots of data into the drives memory. In the Win dir. it seems to show a
large
volume in the Win.swp file but that is managed by WIN.

Any ideas how to approach this problem or what the problem could be?
Should
he move all programs except WIN into the other drive, would that help ?

Thanks

TK



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Old August 2nd 05, 05:20 PM
TKinHawaii
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Turns out what was filling up the drive was the Win Temp folder. It was
loaded with unneeded files. Dumped it and all is fine. Is there any way to
keep this folder from filing up with useless files.

Thanks everyone for your input.

TK

"PattyL" wrote:

Move the Windows swap file to the d: drive to free up some space. To do
this right-click My Computer. Then click the Performance tab. On this tab,
click the Virtual Memory button. Click Let me specify my own virtual memory
settings and change the Hard disk location to d:\. I would not change any
of the other settings but let Windows manage the size.

You can do the disk cleanup by going to Start, Programs, Accessories, System
Tools, Disk Cleanup. From here you can have the Disk Cleanup tool delete
files from Temporary Internet Files, Downloaded Program Files, Recycle Bin
and Temporary files.

Folder Size Shell Extension is a very handy free utility that will let you
view which folders are consuming the most space on your hard drive. You can
get it from he

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fil...d,15304,00.asp

PattyL


"TKinHawaii" wrote in message
...
My son's machine has a 40GB drive partitioned into C..10GB and D..
29GB or so. All of a sudden he is getting messages that the C drive is
near capacity. Looking at properties of the C drive show that there is
very
little
free space, yet there should be lots of free space. He has run scan disk,
defrag, virus program etc. all in Safe Mode and still something is dumping
lots of data into the drives memory. In the Win dir. it seems to show a
large
volume in the Win.swp file but that is managed by WIN.

Any ideas how to approach this problem or what the problem could be?
Should
he move all programs except WIN into the other drive, would that help ?

Thanks

TK




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Old August 2nd 05, 11:20 PM
PattyL
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Glad to hear that things are okay now.

When things work correctly, temp files should be deleted by the application
that created them when the need for them is finished. Since many programs
do not do this reliably and since sometimes something interferes with this
process, its a good idea to run Disk Cleanup periodically.

You might want to check it once a week for a while and see what has
accumulated. If it's not much, then extend the time to once a month or less
frequently.

PattyL


"TKinHawaii" wrote in message
...
Turns out what was filling up the drive was the Win Temp folder. It was
loaded with unneeded files. Dumped it and all is fine. Is there any way to
keep this folder from filing up with useless files.

Thanks everyone for your input.

TK

"PattyL" wrote:

Move the Windows swap file to the d: drive to free up some space. To do
this right-click My Computer. Then click the Performance tab. On this
tab,
click the Virtual Memory button. Click Let me specify my own virtual
memory
settings and change the Hard disk location to d:\. I would not change
any
of the other settings but let Windows manage the size.

You can do the disk cleanup by going to Start, Programs, Accessories,
System
Tools, Disk Cleanup. From here you can have the Disk Cleanup tool delete
files from Temporary Internet Files, Downloaded Program Files, Recycle
Bin
and Temporary files.

Folder Size Shell Extension is a very handy free utility that will let
you
view which folders are consuming the most space on your hard drive. You
can
get it from he

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fil...d,15304,00.asp

PattyL


"TKinHawaii" wrote in message
...
My son's machine has a 40GB drive partitioned into C..10GB and D..
29GB or so. All of a sudden he is getting messages that the C drive is
near capacity. Looking at properties of the C drive show that there is
very
little
free space, yet there should be lots of free space. He has run scan
disk,
defrag, virus program etc. all in Safe Mode and still something is
dumping
lots of data into the drives memory. In the Win dir. it seems to show a
large
volume in the Win.swp file but that is managed by WIN.

Any ideas how to approach this problem or what the problem could be?
Should
he move all programs except WIN into the other drive, would that help ?

Thanks

TK






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Old December 16th 05, 07:58 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
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win.swp issues

Hi all,
Actually I have discovered that my drive is filled up with 'win.swp'. I
have no temp files outstanding, and my cache is clear.

What actually does win.swp do?

I am not on line with this machine so I am not inherently putting the
system in danger, and I back up the files that I feel are important to
an external zip drive.

Can I get rid of this file to make room for my other programs, and at
what cost to my system?


Thanks in advance,

Boonie


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Old December 16th 05, 11:06 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
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win.swp Dunno what that is

win386.swp is neccessary, the virtual memory swap file.
windows will not allow you to delete it
can be deleted from dos boot, but will be recreated on next boot
changing virtual memory settings to remove completely is considered a very
bad idea

How big a drive and how big a swap file is this problem on,
& there should only be one(1), in the root folder of the drive, other copies
can be safely deleted from explorer.

if it is win.swp not win386.swp then none of the above makes any sense at
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win.swp issues

Hi all,
Actually I have discovered that my drive is filled up with 'win.swp'. I
have no temp files outstanding, and my cache is clear.

What actually does win.swp do?

I am not on line with this machine so I am not inherently putting the
system in danger, and I back up the files that I feel are important to
an external zip drive.

Can I get rid of this file to make room for my other programs, and at
what cost to my system?


Thanks in advance,

Boonie


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