Neither Security Essentials or Windows Update should ever eat up 20 GB
of disk space! You have something going on. Calculate the used and
free space compared to the entire drive, My guess is that the drive may
be failing and automatically blocking out bad sectors. This effectively
continuously makes the drive smaller as it gets worse. If this is the
case, get the data off of it and replace the drive.
*Don Marang*
Vinux Software Development Coordinator - vinuxproject.org
<http://www.vinuxproject.org/>
There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any
real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I
am working on things that matter.
-- Dean Kamen
On 7/12/2011 11:49 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Hi list
It's Alvin.
My AVG license is about to expire next month, and I want to make sure
that I uninstall everything associated with it. What's the best way to do
this?
I am thinking about using Microsoft Security Essentials instead.
I already use it on my dad's desktop, and I want to put it on my HP
laptop.
However, I have noticed on my dad's desktop that it seems to take up
quite a bit of the hard drive. At one point, the computer had around 22
gigs free, but after a while, it has about 2 gigs of hard drive.
Is this normal? This would be my only hang up with using MSE. It seems to
be a hard drive hog. :)
Is there something I can do to minimize this from happening? I haven't
installed anything on the desktop that takes up that much space. At least
I don't believe so.
Maybe Windows update is doing it without me knowing. It often installs
things (according to my dad) when I shut down the computer.
The desktop is using Windows XP Pro SP2 with about 1 Gig of ram and
around 40 Gigs on the hard drive. It's an old computer. Lol
My HP Pavilion notebook has about 2 Gigs of Ram and around 80 Gigs on the
hard drive and is using Windows XP Home SP3.
It is pretty old too. Lol I have had it since the spring of 2005.
It shows signs of wear and tare from time to time, but it still gets done
what I need it to do.
I am looking into purchasing another computer anyway.
Well any info/guidance will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Be blessed!
Alvin
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