Hi,
Apologies if this is obvious. I was going to use windows 'disc defragmenter' but it said I only have 2% free space. I'm getting a message now when I log on telling me to free up some disc space but there really is nothing else to get rid of.
All temporary internet files are gone and there are no more programs I can get rid of.
I'm wondering if its because Windows (XP) has been installed on here a few times and whether there is anything I can do about it.
It says its 9.30 GB but that its all but used. Do you think re-installing Windows would work?
I've never downloaded any music or video so I cant understand it.


I've downloaded and run TreeSize Professional.
If anyone can help me make sense of the results......

It shows scan results for...

129.8 MB Local Disc (C:)
56.4 MB Documents and Settings (43.5%)
28.0 MB System Volume Information (21.6%)
25.9 MB WINDOWS (20%)
18.9 MB Program Files (14.5%)

The taskbar shows C:\ as having a size of 10,660.7 MB with 9,193.3 allocated and 129.8 MB wasted

I dont get it, bear in mind that I'm not sure what the difference between (C:) and C:\ is.

Hi there nickmisky , welcome to PCHF.

So treesize says only 130mb total is used on youre C: disk? ( (C and C:\ is the same) and you have WinXP installed? That cant be right.

So youre C: disk is 10.600 mb and 9200 mb is used? If you go to you C: disk and select all files and folders there and rightclick and select properties , what size says it then??

Blimey, thanks for the quick reply.
Sorry if I'm not up to speed but how do I select 'All files & folders'

Hi there, just go to Windows Explorer, click on the + sign next to the C: drive then click once on C: Drive and select edit (at the top) and "Select All"

If I go to 'My Computer' and right click on Local Disc (C:) and select 'properties' it says used space is 9.15 GB and free space is 160 MB and capacity is 9.30 GB

It looks like youre disk is full then , there must be something wrong with treesize , you could reinstall it to see if that fixes that.

As for the space , do you have an other partition/HD that you can transfer things to?

...or maybe a CD/DVD burner ?