low disk space

tomsolomon

Do you have an Acer by any chance?
Go to your D drive right click and create a new folder, call it Documents or My stuff or something you can remember.
Inside that folder create four more folders and rename them 'Documents', 'Music', 'Pictures' and 'Videos'.
If you do alot of downloads you might want to create a folder called Downloads as well.
Next you need to go to 'My Documents' on your C drive and right click on the corresponding folder. Chose properties and click on location. Now redirect the link to the newly created folder in your D drive. Cant remember if you have to copy the files over of if it just changes the file directory but it should free up loads of space on your C drive and any new files you create in these folders will automatically be relocated to the new folder....

After you have done, follow the steps in my previous post...

helen_roberts_2

yes i do how do you know?

GeoffX

You could have a look at this ( it's free and small with no silly toolbars or whatever ).

http://windirstat.info/

If you install it and let it run, it will scan your hard disk and display a graph of where your disk's space is being used. The bigger the item is, the larger it will appear on the graph. Different folders are displayed in different colours. If you click on part of the graph the top part of the window will display more information about the file.

helen_roberts_2

when i right click on d drive i get these options:-
explore
open
share...
format...
copy
create shortcut
rename
properties

it doesnt say new folder??

tomsolomon

helen_roberts wrote: »

yes i do how do you know?

I did one last week....

tomsolomon

Yea sorry me bad, open or double click the D drive, then right click anywhere on the white space, and select New>Folder.....

23n1th

If you do need to copy/move the files across (which I'm pretty sure you will with only 224kb left) I'd download and install Teracopy, its very faster and has a resume feature than windows inbuilt program doesn't. http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php

googler

helen_roberts wrote: »

do photos take alot of space?

Depends on how you took them. The more megapixels they have, the larger their file size will be.

johncalvin7

helen_roberts wrote: »

C says 32.5 gb used and 224kb free

this the problem then

what do i do?

go to control panel >> Programs and features and uninstall any unused software.

dogmaryxx

How to Regain up to 9% of your Hardrive Memory


When Windows is installed it automatically uses 5%-10% of your memory for Recycle Bin.
1) Right click on Recycle Bin and click on Properties.
2) Move back to 1%.
3) Click on Apply.
4) Finished

Instructions for XP. For Vista/w7 you may need to set mb size not % size

Older Recycle Bin files are removed if the Recycle Bin runs out of space, thus you may not want to make this number too small.

If you try deleting a file that is larger than the size of the Recycle Bin, Windows will prompt if you wish to remove the file as "this file must be deleted because it is too large for the Recycle Bin".