My hard disk space seems to be diminishing...


  1. Florio
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    My hard disk space seems to be diminishing...


    I have an Acer Aspire 5740G with 4GB of memory and a 640 GB HDD. I am running Windows 7 Home Premium.

    Until recently I had a lot of videos and audio files saved on my laptop, but seeing as the hard disk was filling up pretty rapidly, I decided to delete a lot of media files that I wasn't using.

    The problem is that despite getting rid of these files, the amount of free disk space does not seem to have increased. On the contrary, it seems to have diminished!!

    I have run all sorts of programs including CCleaner and Advanced SystemCare 6 (Pro) in an attempt to regain the space that I know I should have, but to no avail apparently.

    Does anyone know what else I can do?
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  3. DavidE
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    Did you empty the Recycle Bin after deleting the files?
    Maybe the files are still in there.
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  4. Florio
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    Yes, done all of that.

    I've just downloaded WinDirStat which looks as if it might be useful in identifying where all the space is being used.
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