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C Drive Storage problems!

Posted by Timesobserver • 8/13/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: c drive, disk storage

Hi there all!

OK, my Dell Inspiron 1501 has 45 GB of storage on the C Drive and I only have 5.74 GB left. Because of this, my programs don't respond or are slow and my Internet can be slow too.

Before I run out and buy a new hard drive, I'm smart enough to know that there must be another way to resolve this problem besides buying a new one.

I have deleted and/or uninstalled files and/or programs that I don't need. However, to be honest with you, there are other things that came with the laptop and I don't want to delete something important.

I'm not too familiar with computer maintenance but I'm learning.

In addition, I noticed that while I have not downloaded anything for awhile (I bought a portable hard drive), my remaining GB seems to fluctuate. Yesterday, I had 6.74 and last week it was 7. something and now today it's down to 5.74. Why does this happen?

Thanks for any help you can give!

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  1. techhgyan
    8/13/09
    techhgyan
    which os do you use? wot do u mean by fluctuates? did u save any files later or downloaded from internet?wot is the exact problem?
    I guess you are having a problem with temp files. which pgm do u use? i had more than 1gb of templ file wen i checked my acer lappy after few months of purchase.
    Use tuneup utilitise or ccleaner, defragment all your drives
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    1. Timesobserver
      8/13/09
      Timesobserver
      Thanks for the advice, Techhgyan. I have Windows Vista and to be honest, I'm not all that tech savvy, as I stated before.

      I take it that I can find tuneup utilitise or ccleaner on my computer or is that something I have to download?

      I had download things from the Internet but now I put them on my portable hard drive, unless they're programs, then I download them on my computer.

      As far as fluctuating, as I said, one day I will have 6.74 GB left of storage space and the day I'll have 5.74 GB and the day after that, it might go back up to 6.24 GB. And I haven't downloaded anything for a while now.
  2. techhgyan
    8/13/09
    techhgyan
    i am sorry for spelling mistake it is tuneup utility 2009 on internet better u find full version. find ccleaner also on internet and clear all ur temporary files and registry
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    1. Timesobserver
      8/13/09
      Timesobserver
      Thanks, I'll do that.

      I just did a disk clean up and I only got an extra 3.76GB of storage space.

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