Hard drive space keeps disappearing..

[HotRails]

but Im not saving anything new. What could be wrong? I have Kaspersky AV but maybe its missing something?

[jrara]

Running Any auto Updates for Kapersky?

Symantec had a habit of retaining the update files which took a lot of Hard drive space.

[HotRails]

Running Any auto Updates for Kapersky?

Symantec had a habit of retaining the update files which took a lot of Hard drive space.

I am running auto updates for Kaspersky. How would I check for this and dump the files?

[Merc1138]

Your internet cache(also called temporary files in your browser) can eat up a ton of space, so can windows restore points if you have that enabled(that can eat up a few GB of space easily).

How much hard drive space is disappearing how often? You left that bit of information out and it can definitely provide a clue.

[gschoelles]

Try CCcleaner, its a free download

[HotRails]

Your internet cache(also called temporary files in your browser) can eat up a ton of space, so can windows restore points if you have that enabled(that can eat up a few GB of space easily).

How much hard drive space is disappearing how often? You left that bit of information out and it can definitely provide a clue.

Merc, thanks for the reply but I actually keep my temp directory cleaned out often since this has been happening. I can't give you an exact idea of how rapidly memory is being used up, but to give a general idea I removed Turbo Tax, which is a sizeable program, about three weeks ago and that space is now gone.

[Merc1138]

Turbo tax can't be that large of an application, a couple of GB at the most? I also gave you another thing to check besides the temp directory for your browser.

I did just remember a useful app if you want an interesting way to see what files are eating up how much space on your drive all at once:

http://windirstat.info/

Download it, install it(your AV software shouldn't have any issues with it), run it, and let it scan your drive. It'll display the filesizes of every file and folder on your drive at once. The screenshots on the site explain it better than I can in text. Locate what's using up all of this space, let us know what it is, and then we might be able to tell you how to deal with it.

[Joe]

Try CCcleaner, its a free download

agreed

[Digital_Boy]

How big a hard drive, and how much is left?

[exklusve]

download Space Monger.
Gives you a graphical representation of data on any drive.

[JDay]

Your internet cache(also called temporary files in your browser) can eat up a ton of space, so can windows restore points if you have that enabled(that can eat up a few GB of space easily).

How much hard drive space is disappearing how often? You left that bit of information out and it can definitely provide a clue.

There's also a temp directory that holds temporary files from installations, just run the disk cleanup tool (it's part of windows) to clean this stuff out. You can also disable windows restore and you'll recover 10% of your disk space.

ETA: If you get a lot of blue screens your drive will have a lot of memory dump files on it, these are the size of the amount of RAM in your system.

[Cbr1000Rider]

Just buy a simple external USB harddrive space at best buy for all your non-executable files (such as videos, work documents). Your C Drive should have plenty of space for any programs that need to be installed.

You can buy a 2 Terabyte drive for like $120? You could even probably partition it and install stuff on it if you google how to.

Edit: You will not need 2 terabytes. most you will probably need is 500GB which you can probably find for say $40?

[Barbarossa]

You can also try WinUtilities

[rynando]

It could be your swap file . . . You can limit its size and even put it on a different partition if you'd like.

[JDay]

It could be your swap file . . . You can limit it's size and even put it on a different partition if you'd like.

The swap file shouldn't change size.