Friday, October 9, 2015

windows xp - Amount of free disk space getting smaller every day


I am running Symantec antivirus on a Windows XP machine. The amount of free disk space I have in C: has been dropping every day for the past 15 days.


I have been emptying my Recycle Bin, and I only have important software installed. I'm using a 40GB disk, but I keep getting warnings about low disk space. I've scanned my machine at boot time with Avast, but it didn't solve the problem.


Could this be a virus? I don't want to reformat the whole computer, because it would be hard to restore my configuration.


Answer



Sometimes, programs just make a bunch of log files that aren't needed, and you can find whats making them through winderstat, then see if you can turn that feature off in the app settings.


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