Hi Donk, You are right about something filling up my free space but I cannot determine what it is. My task manager does not show any extra things running but I think there might be? Safe mode does not have the light on all the time like in regular mode. That being said, it has cleared up somewhat since I reclaimed back my free space. Do you suggest a selective start? I just am not sure what everything is.
-------Original Message------- From: Donk Date: 30-Nov-08 2:01:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [A-1-Computer_Tech]** Ivan & Donk** Help! Free Space Rapidly Decreasing! Glad you got some space freed up... but it originally sounded like your main problem was that something was constantly running and filling up your free space. I hope it's fixed, but if your hard drive light keeps continually flashing then you might find you have to keep deleting files every day or so. I would still try booting into Safe Mode to see if the hard drive light stops running. If it's ok in Safe Mode then the prob is you've got some program running in the background filling up your hard drive. You'll have to trouble shoot to find what it is. Good luck, Donk Artichoke Flower wrote: > > Thank you both for all your suggestions. > > I successfully got my computer back to it's usual slow self and restored all > my free space. > > My free space started to go up slowly and it raised enough (1%) to perform a > full scan which told me my computer was clean, no bad stuff of any kind. I > have no idea why the free space started to increase. I also noticed that it > had no bearing when a I saved a document of one size to the amount of space > the computer used up. What ever the case after 2 full days of a scan (extra > slow because of limited space) I decided to run the cc cleaner again. I > noticed a discrepancy between how much mb it said it could delete and how > much it actually deleted. When I checked my settings I noticed it was set > to delete only files older than 48 hours. I unchecked this option and ran > it again. My computer went from 1% to 40% free space. Now I know those > files were not created in the last 48 hours as I was only deleting and had > no room to save, so I cannot explain this. Lot of my settings came back out > of whack but after a few days struggling, I have now corrected them back to > normal. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please feel free to contact me directly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do not post personal issues directly to the group. To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for using A-1 Computer TechYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
