Something keeps eating at my hardrive… Taking up all the space… I googled it and seemingly its the SYSTEM RESTORE points. So I deleted them and it freed up loads of GB’s worth of space but its eating away again and now when I try to delete them the same way as before it aint doing it and I am now left with 150mb space on a 250gb HDD
Ive ran all anti virus scans, spyware etc etc and checked all my programs too make sure there aint thats too BIG but you can literally open MY COMPUTER and watch the space on my HDD go down…
Have you tried opening Task Manager (Ctrl + Alt + Delete) to see what processes are using the cpu or if there are any programs running in the background ?
Its not the CPU, its the hard drive… Its as if something is constantly installing into my main HDD therefore reducing its space extra quickly… Went from 9.6gb last night and now flashing up im at 180mb
Gonna try a system restore if I can and didnt already previously delete them but I bet this is a clever virus which makes you think that was the prob then you delete the restore points and when you dont have 1 to restore too BANG you need to re-install windows…
System Restore is by default set at ~10% of HDD space, you can lower/raise this, press the window key and thhe pause/break key to bring up system properties click on the system restore tab and you can adjust things from there. ( quick tip, you should only turn off if you have a virus in the restore files, anti virus tools can’t usually touch files in there, , reboot then turn it back on, virus gone )
Check your recycle bin, right click on the icon, select properties and adjust as required.
If you have MS Office then it’s likely that there are cache files (which are usually huge) //MSO CACHE/. but these shouldn’t be removed unless you have your office setup disk/s.
Check for file sharing software and the directories where it puts your files, including temporary/part downloaded files.
If your using PowerIso or similar check for virtual drives, each will use 700MB of HDD space.
Check for backup software, some software will make a fresh file for each backup, not an incremental backup (where only changed files are incorparated into one backup file).
Check the drive, go to Start, Run, type CMD, then type CHKDSK C: /F
a reboot will be required and it will check the drive during the boot up and fix files as required.
a friend had this a while ago and he was a MS engineer and had all the anti virus programs and everything on his pc so he went through all his files and found a notepad file that was just writing things on to itself and when he found it he deleted all the text in it and just watched for an hour, his hard drive went from 125GB available to 12 in the space of two hours.
have a look for anything unusual on your hard drive.
right click then properties on all files to see how big they are and if you think they shouldnt be that big have a look at them.
Giblsa:
a friend had this a while ago and he was a MS engineer and had all the anti virus programs and everything on his pc so he went through all his files and found a notepad file that was just writing things on to itself and when he found it he deleted all the text in it and just watched for an hour, his hard drive went from 125GB available to 12 in the space of two hours.
have a look for anything unusual on your hard drive.
right click then properties on all files to see how big they are and if you think they shouldnt be that big have a look at them.
you can go to Start, Search, then click All file and Folders, type . inthe All or Part of File name field, then select What size is it then click Specify size and type in 1024000, this’ll show any files that are bigger than a GB, and then click advanced options, select system folders and hidden files and folders, then click Search.
quick tip, you should only turn off if you have a virus in the restore files, anti virus tools can’t usually touch files in there, , reboot then turn it back on, virus gone 
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