BooYaKaSha
Technical User
Earlier today, after having my computer on for a few days, I began running out of space on my C: drive. I'm running XP, and C: is partitioned to about 15GB.
I was in the middle of downloading something, so I starting moving some files to another drive, erased all the temp stuff I could find, made sure Recycle Bin and Norton Protection was empty, even checked the System Volume Information folder, the Prefetch folder, etc. and found and erased an old dead pagefile that was 1.5 GB.
After doing all this (and probably erasing/moving about 4GB of stuff) the available space didn't change, and got to the point that it was down to 29.6 MB.
So I restarted the comp, and magically I suddenly have 4.1 GB of free space. So I moved all the stuff back to C: (about 1+ GB of stuff) and it's now up to 5.6 GB.
What the heck is going on here?
I was in the middle of downloading something, so I starting moving some files to another drive, erased all the temp stuff I could find, made sure Recycle Bin and Norton Protection was empty, even checked the System Volume Information folder, the Prefetch folder, etc. and found and erased an old dead pagefile that was 1.5 GB.
After doing all this (and probably erasing/moving about 4GB of stuff) the available space didn't change, and got to the point that it was down to 29.6 MB.
So I restarted the comp, and magically I suddenly have 4.1 GB of free space. So I moved all the stuff back to C: (about 1+ GB of stuff) and it's now up to 5.6 GB.
What the heck is going on here?