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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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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. -- Mikhail Zhilin MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) http://www.aha.ru/~mwz Sorry, no technical support by e-mail. Please reply to the newsgroups only. ====== 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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Do a search for all files (or all files newer than a certain date) and then
sort by size. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "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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"Jeff Richards" wrote in message ... 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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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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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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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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Cannot find what is filing up disk
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 -- videoengnr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ videoengnr's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=12362 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=334292 Free Computer Help - http://forums.techarena.in |
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Cannot find what is filing up disk
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 all -- - Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de spybot http://security.kolla.de AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/ActiveScan/ Panda online AntiSpyware Scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/spyware/test/ Catalog of removal tools (1) http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/ Catalog of removal tools (2) http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387 Trouble Shooting guide to Windows http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/ Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before use Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters _ "videoengnr" wrote in message ... 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 -- videoengnr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ videoengnr's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=12362 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=334292 Free Computer Help - http://forums.techarena.in |
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