Acer laptop

[loanrangiel]

My parents have an Acer laptop that the puny 20gig hdd is running out of space, problem is there are no large files anywhere that i can find ? They dont do any downloading or installing programs all ove the place so i dont know all the hdd space has gone - a format and re install is on the cards to restore the space and to speed it up as it is a real slug even though it has a 2 gig cpu.

[fandtm666]

the system restore if still on uses quiet a bit over time plus temp files etc

[Jims Brother]

Think about getting a USB External HDD. Just plug in the USB cable and your away.

[OSIRUS]

To clean up all previous restore points in Windows

Open Disk Cleanup in System Tools,

Select cleanup "System" Drive C

when Disk Cleanup opens,

select More Options Tab at the Top

in the System Restore (at the bottom)

Select "Clean Up", then click Yes, to are you sure,

Then Click OK,

Done.



I do also remember years ago someone had a version of "Norton Systemworks" or something,

that had its own Recycle bin, (hidden)

& it never deleted anything from it, so file size kept growing,

you the had to work out how to delete the contents of the Norton Recycle bin

Good Luck

[C-Bandit]

old versions of java also had "unlimited cache" could be that also. Download CCleaner and run that through the system.

[loanrangiel]

Once i get hold of it again i'll try all the avice mentioned above and see if i can get some space back. EXT. hdd is not an option as i have had enough ph. calls from them trying to send emails and using the set top box as it is

[ATTITUDE]

Also if you have copied a dvd and used dvd shrink you will find movie folders on ya hard drive and they take up around 4 gig each.

[N00b]

I had a friend bring me his lappy complaining he had lost 50Gb of storage,
I remember deleting 50Gb of temp files using "disk cleanup" as OSIRUS suggested in earlier post. You can restrict the size of temp file storage from memory.

[loanrangiel]

I had a friend bring me his lappy complaining he had lost 50Gb of storage,
I remember deleting 50Gb of temp files using "disk cleanup" as OSIRUS suggested in earlier post. You can restrict the size of temp file storage from memory.

I did the disk clean this arvo and gained 6 gig back but there is still over 10 gig used but i cant see where ? , they dont download anything or burn dvd's (like they'd know how to ) store digital photo's or encode video so i cant see what is using this space apart from windows itself.

[Philquad]

turn off system restore 12%
delete what you dont need
run ccleaner
the rest will be windows and whats stored

[loanrangiel]

turn off system restore 12%
delete what you dont need
run ccleaner
the rest will be windows and whats stored

Did all of the above suggestions and now have 50% hdd space available but the thing still runs like a slug, it only has 256mb ram so i guess this is the main problem will have to open it and see what ram it uses and try and find some more for it.

[Philquad]

id format it 1st, then see

[puca]

if your running xp with 256 mg ram no wonder its slooooow xp needs min 512 preferably 1 gig

[loanrangiel]

id format it 1st, then see

This is my preferred option, wasnt getting much use till recently as my brother works in china and just had a little girl so of course mum spends more time on it now.

[Philquad]

you guys are just lazy
id have it done by now lol

Here's What You Need to Use Windows XP Professional
•

PC with 300 megahertz or higher processor clock speed recommended; 233 MHz minimum required (single or dual processor system);* Intel Pentium/Celeron family, or AMD K6/Athlon/Duron family, or compatible processor recommended
•

128 megabytes (MB) of RAM or higher recommended (64 MB minimum supported; may limit performance and some features)
•

1.5 gigabytes (GB) of available hard disk space*

[admin]

And that all goes out the door as soon as you install other software on it

[Philquad]

My parents have an Acer laptop that the puny 20gig hdd is running out of space, problem is there are no large files anywhere that i can find ? They dont do any downloading or installing programs all ove the place so i dont know all the hdd space has gone - a format and re install is on the cards to restore the space and to speed it up as it is a real slug even though it has a 2 gig cpu.

ho hum

[Woodstock]

1 GB ram .. for XP .. runs way better .

[Philquad]

your missing the point of it all
its a crappy lappy with 20gb drive
they need xp,office 2003,adobe,winzip and IE
you can stuff a 3ghz quad core with 8gb ram in it if you want but it'll still run like shit if the os is borked
imho
im forever trying to fix troublesome computers
at the end of the day, you can guess what needs doing

[Arbiter]

Try using this:

Tells you where your HDD space is being gobbled up.