wife's win 7 laptop has c: drive almost completely full. we are deleting files mostly pictures that appear from FB & e-mails & web that she saved. as we delete them we find them again in another folder or even in the same one. what gives?
There are a few ways to delete a file. 1- Right Click the file and select delete. 2- Left Click once on the file to highlight and hit delete on the keyboard. 3- Left Click once on the file to highlight, hold the Shift key down and hit the delete key to permanently delete the file from your system. There are a number of programs that delete files as well. How are you deleting your files?
Lance! - just as you say. UsernameIssues - not sure the path is, will check later. will see if temp files can be deleted.
seems that files keep getting put in library also. even after they are burnt to cd as in saving pics. space on drive does not seem to clear up very much at all
Try Microsoft's built in disk cleanup tool:
Click on Start and search for disk:
Once the scan completes, select every check box and click on OK.
After the disk cleanup widow goes away, reboot the computer.
The clean up can take hours to complete.
You should have got a warning saying disk space low, at 6Gb!!.
None of the standard cleaners will work now,(they unfortunately create temporary files before deletion).
can you post a copy of disc management.
(control panel >> admin tools >> Computer management >> disk management)
We might be able to increase the size of the C drive, 58.5 seems to be quite low.
Roy
@ UNI see my comment 2nd line
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