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PC eating memory At 1gig an hour :(

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  • 16-06-2013 10:42pm
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    JustAThought
    Registered Users Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭


    Help. My dad has literally virtually nothing saved on his laptop. It has a 200 gig ( aprox) memory split into C & E drives. The C drive is full ; with only 300MB left - yet there is practically nothing on it.

    Have run virus scan, ( nothing showed latest update), have run systems diagnosis - nothing, have run space save & saved 300MB - within half an hour this was down to 87 Mb left :(

    Deleted ( moved to external hard drive and control deleted from trash) the only thing real files had ( 5 gig of music) and checked the C drive - 5.25 Gig extra available. -- the only memory in the C drive. Did nothing except searched for a single photo file thats " lost/misfiled" . By the time I was shutting down the pc following the search the available memory had DECREAsED by over a GIG.

    Please can someone help :(


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    JDxtra
    Registered Users Posts: 5,912 ✭✭✭JDxtra


    Download Treesize free and see where most of the space is used. Might give you some clues to the cause.


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    johndoe99
    Registered Users Posts: 1,880 ✭✭✭johndoe99


    sounds as though theres malware filling your HD. Download and run Malwarebytes (Free Version):

    http://www.malwarebytes.org/


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    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 83,314 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Treesize/Windirstat may not be able to identify what the space is. In Vista I usually always encountered this problem every few months, where space was being whittled away and I had no idea where it was going. Could have been a virus, or poor execution of volume shadow copies or some other shyte I don't need to know anything about, but to resolve the situation I just reformatted the machine. You said yourself he saves nothing on there, just take what he does have, place it on a flash drive, and then run the factory reset tools.


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