Computer help...checking disk space....

[maverick2112]

How do I find out what programs are using what amount of disk space???

I have 18 gb of space but only 142 mb available........I cant figure out what is using so much disk space.........

Thanks

 

[Old School]

right click on icon for particular program

click on properties

click on general at the top..

disk space there

 

[Old School]

do a defrag...never hurts

 

[maverick2112]

right click on icon for particular program

click on properties

click on general at the top..

disk space there

Seems this would take forever and what if I missed some programs??? Isnt their a list somewher or something??

 

[Old School]

mav i am a novice for the most part..

have you done a windows help search

 

[Padre]

control alt tab , all at the same time will tell what is running and how much is being used at current time. to see how much space is used , go to MY COMPUTER and mouse over the c: drive it will tell u how mush u have , how much is used and whats left.

I know i had a large hard drive and was shocked to know that much of it was "partitioned" which is to say that that part that is partitioned is unusable. when may need to "unpartioned it" to gain more space.

 

[Old School]

good work Padre..

ctrl/alt/del...then proccess's may due the same thing..

had to ask the wife... :scared

 

[maverick2112]

control alt tab , all at the same time will tell what is running and how much is being used at current time. to see how much space is used , go to MY COMPUTER and mouse over the c: drive it will tell u how mush u have , how much is used and whats left.

I know i had a large hard drive and was shocked to know that much of it was "partitioned" which is to say that that part that is partitioned is unusable. when may need to "unpartioned it" to gain more space.

How do you unpartition it???

 

[Padre]

I am not 100% sure, but first u need to find out if it is "partitioned"

For over a year i had forgotten that my laptop had a 20gb harddrive , but had only noticed that it was operating on 13gb, 7 of which was "partitioned" unused.

First u need to know what or how big of a hard drive u have or bought.

Then go to "My computer" mouse over C: drive and it will tell u free space and total space. no need to click anything just mouse over it.

 

[chuckdman]

I know i had a large hard drive and was shocked to know that much of it was "partitioned" which is to say that that part that is partitioned is unusable. when may need to "unpartioned it" to gain more space.

Completely the opposite. A hard drive has to be partitoned to be used. The unpartitoned part can't be used and is not visble till tyou assign it a drive letter adn then partiton it.. I highly doubt this is Mavs problem..

Also the control-ALT-Delete will show you what applications and/or services are running and the MEMORY they are taking up. This is very different from hard drive space.

Anyways.. to answer the original question, most programs are installed in C:\program files... so go to the C drive, then click into the program files and then right click on the file folders individually and it will tell you the size of the folder and everything in it.

Workarounds.. if your using windows xp, shut off system restore, you can also make your recycle bin take up less space (defauilt is 10% of your drive) or if its a desktop just had another hard drive.. pretty cheap these days.

 

[maverick2112]

Completely the opposite. A hard drive has to be partitoned to be used. The unpartitoned part can't be used and is not visble till tyou assign it a drive letter adn then partiton it.. I highly doubt this is Mavs problem..

Also the control-ALT-Delete will show you what applications and/or services are running and the MEMORY they are taking up. This is very different from hard drive space.

Anyways.. to answer the original question, most programs are installed in C:\program files... so go to the C drive, then click into the program files and then right click on the file folders individually and it will tell you the size of the folder and everything in it.

I checked the windows folder and it says its using 8.33 GB of my disk space....... :shrug:


Workarounds.. if your using windows xp, shut off system restore, you can also make your recycle bin take up less space (defauilt is 10% of your drive) or if its a desktop just had another hard drive.. pretty cheap these days.

I have 18.6GB and have 3.69 free space.........How do I shut off sys restore in windows xp?? and adjust the space for my recycle bin..........

Also maybe this matters.........I did have windows me and installed windows xp..........could it be that i am running windows me and this new xp at the same time???

It just seems that I have alot of hard drive used up........when I ge to the program files and see what amount of space they use......its not anything overwhelming..........the biggest one was a backup floder using 126 KB

 

[chuckdman]

I have 18.6GB and have 3.69 free space.........How do I shut off sys restore in windows xp?? and adjust the space for my recycle bin..........

Also maybe this matters.........I did have windows me and installed windows xp..........could it be that i am running windows me and this new xp at the same time???

It just seems that I have alot of hard drive used up........when I ge to the program files and see what amount of space they use......its not anything overwhelming..........the biggest one was a backup floder using 126 KB

8.0GB+ for a windows folder definitely explains that the remains of windows ME is still in the windows folder, maybe, and my windows folder with all the latest windows updates is only 2.2GB...Unless you go into the windows folder adn specificially find a folder called Windows ME, I would NOT go in there and delete files. You can only run 1 operating system at the one time but can have more than 1 loaded on your system.

To turn off system restore, right click my computer, go to properties, click on system restore and check "TURN OFF". This will also improve system performance and will only save you disk space if you have restore points (which some programs do create when installing them)

To reduce the recycle bin, right click the recycle bin, go to properties and lower the slider bar. Do not turn off the recycle bin or make it 0%. This is your protection against deleting unnecessary files and being able to un-delete them .

Hard to believe your biggest folder in the program files folder is less than 200K. Your 'common files' folder should be 5x bigger than that. MS office takes up 400mb, MSN messanger takes up about 15MB, my printing software takes up 7MB...

 

[maverick2112]

8.0GB+ for a windows folder definitely explains that the remains of windows ME is still in the windows folder, maybe, and my windows folder with all the latest windows updates is only 2.2GB...Unless you go into the windows folder adn specificially find a folder called Windows ME, I would NOT go in there and delete files. You can only run 1 operating system at the one time but can have more than 1 loaded on your system.

To turn off system restore, right click my computer, go to properties, click on system restore and check "TURN OFF". This will also improve system performance and will only save you disk space if you have restore points (which some programs do create when installing them)

To reduce the recycle bin, right click the recycle bin, go to properties and lower the slider bar. Do not turn off the recycle bin or make it 0%. This is your protection against deleting unnecessary files and being able to un-delete them .

Hard to believe your biggest folder in the program files folder is less than 200K. Your 'common files' folder should be 5x bigger than that. MS office takes up 400mb, MSN messanger takes up about 15MB, my printing software takes up 7MB...

Cant find a specific folder that says "Windows Me" and am kind of hesitant to start deleting files in the windows folder as you stated.

Would it be fairly safe to just uninstall Windows XP and then re-install it??? Can really see why I would need to have 2 operating systems at the same time........should'nt this problem have been taken care of when I installed XP........I remember when I was installing it it stopped and I had to restart it, so maybe thats why it left the old operating system on. I will check my work computer where I had windows 98 and see if it left the old operationg system on when I installed xp.......But using 8gb of my hard drive for oper sysytems seems unnecessary to me.......

 

[maverick2112]

Seems to me there should be an easy way ti uninstall "Windows Me" to get it off of my computer......

 

[chuckdman]

Cant find a specific folder that says "Windows Me" and am kind of hesitant to start deleting files in the windows folder as you stated.

Would it be fairly safe to just uninstall Windows XP and then re-install it??? Can really see why I would need to have 2 operating systems at the same time........should'nt this problem have been taken care of when I installed XP........I remember when I was installing it it stopped and I had to restart it, so maybe thats why it left the old operating system on. I will check my work computer where I had windows 98 and see if it left the old operationg system on when I installed xp.......But using 8gb of my hard drive for oper sysytems seems unnecessary to me.......

Like you said, and I agree, it's best to just start all over. Back up your data and reinstall windows xp. If you have a windows xp UPGRADE you will need to have an older version of windows but you don't have to have it installed. Format the drive and boot from the windows XP cd. It will tell you that the XP is an upgrade and then you'll have to put in your windows ME CD in to continue. LIke I said, my system with all the updates and about 30GB of programs which install files in the windows folder is just over 2GB..

Good luck!

 

[KMA]

Go to any directory and do a right-click/properties and it will tell yah how much space that directory takes up. Then yah can go down in to the directory to size up its subdirectories and files
Big offenders: music files (may be 4 megs) picture files, movie clips, temp files (although they tend to regenerate), applications you dont use any more. (using XP?? go to control panel/add-remove applications and you can see how much space THEY take up).

big corrections?? Clear files and either delete them or write to CD and delete from the PC. Add new hard disk to the PC or add an external USB drive to use for the big chunks. 80 gigs is around 60-70 bucks if you look around.