Heya everyone. I just recentyly got my ancient pc hooked back up to glorious Broadband, after doing without for two years (yay). I'm not really a computer expert, but I'll try to relay the problem without sounding like a complete pleb.

I'm not sure of how much of an idiot I've been, but for whatever reason, my windows partition has utterly filled up with something that apparently doesn't exist.

Now, my windows drive is tiny, based upon the logic that if I keep it small and dedicated to windows only, I shouldn't have any problems, and this has been true for two years.

The partition is only 3 gig in size, and since I've been online, I've watched the free space drain away from around 1 gig to nothing. I've repeatedly deleted stuff from my documents, uninstalled the odd little program and compressed the entire drive, yet the space I get is eaten up immediately, and now I have about 3mb free in my windows drive, which isn't very good.

I've checked for spyware and viruses, emptied the temporary internet files, and checked the page file thing to make sure it's being used in other drives and not my windows one. I'm hoping it's not the updates I've loaded onto windows, but it wouldn't surprise me.

If I select all the stuff on the drive and check the properties, it tells me that the size is 2.56 gig, and that the size on disk is 1.84 gig.

Can anyone tell me why me 440 mb/ 1.16 gig has gone, and what I can do about it to get it free again, if possible?

My computer: 733mhz, 256mb ram, two 30g hard drives, wireless network, inbuilt **** graphics card... and that's about all I know. Please don't tell me to upgrade, I know more than anyone else how much I'd like a new comp.

Sorry for the long winded thread, but this is irritating me.

Hello Mild,

Welcome to PCHF.

Can you try doing a search on your c: drive for all files and folders, *.*. Then click on the date modified title to list what recent files have been saved, and this will give you an idea of any recent activity. You can post a screenshot back here if you like.

Cheers. I'm working on it now, but windows seems determined to freeze up if I try anything as interesting as searching. I'll have some food and get a screenshot up soon. There doesn't seem to be anything interesting, or at least anything particularly large within the past two days since I had broadband installed.