Computer Problem.....?
Hi, I'm having problems with disk space in disk:C. I constantly have pop ups telling me I'am critically low on disk space on drive C and need to make more room. I do disk clean up and get some things gone and it will tell me I have say 150MB clear but about a minute later it will come up saying I need more space so I do the clean up again and suddenly I have only about 30MB. Why is this and how do I get more space (I have already deleted many things off my hard drive). Do I need to take my computer to the pros??
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sounds like your computer may be infected with a virus or malware. free antivirus: avg free. free anti malware: malwarebytes.
if you do not have virus or malware then you need to start clearing up space in your drive. buy a second drive, a high capacity removable drive, or burn to cd or dvds. your computer will need at least 2-3X the installed ram to function, that's called the page file. it may be what's causing your hard drive to behave like that. usually the page file is a set portion of the hard drive that does not vary. it is used like ram if the ram is full. sometimes if the page file fills up it will expand and get bigger.
Computers get confused when you put too much on them even after you delete stuff. Make sure you are uninstalling programs by going to control panel> add remove programs and then delete them form there. After that run a defrag on your disk and that should help. Good luck.
When you delete something, it won't exactly go away from your hard drive. you have to "uninstall" whatever you need to remove, that way you will get your space back and you can also buy more "gig" for your hard drive.