Windows reporting low disk space

Did you say 35 GB worth of files deleted? Geez! How big is the hard drive?

With that aside. Try some of these suggestions.

* Delete all *.tmp, *.chk, ~*.* files.
* Go to Internet browser and delete all temporary and offline content.
* Run thorough scandisk and defrag.
* Do a File Find and search for files over 1MB in size. (Where I work, there is an snalog that grows daily and has reached 25 MB.)
* Delete old *.zip or downloaded files.
* Go to Add/Remove Programs and get rid of thosehe's not using.

This might not even have anything to do with the hard drive. Try reseating the memory chips, reinstalling Windows, or, God forbid, reformat the hard drive.

How big did you say that hard drive was? =)

its a 40gb monster :)

Don't forget to run Scandisk. I had a client that was down to 2MB free. I ran Scandisk and found 90MB in lost clusters. I have also had Scandisk fix misreported file sizes.

Well, run scandisk, of course. If that doesn't do it, try changing your virtual memory setting to 0 and rebooting in safe mode. Defrag, change your virtual memory back to whatever was working for you before, then reboot. One nasty thing about Windows virtual memory is that is doesn't use contiguous free space, and defrag won't defrag the swap file. So, changing the virtual memory to 0 gets rid of the swap file, defrag organizes files and free space, and resetting the virtual memory recreates a swap file, this time using contiguous free space.

well I would first right click on the recycle bin reduce the size of therecycle bin to 2% that is if he's got 35 gigs of hard drive run scandisc ( through) and then defrag both in safe mode. open my computer also right click properties and do a disk clean and then defrag again.35gigs of unistalling GEEZS

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