Notebooks & Netbooks

[jackteet]

Hi, A couple of weeks ago I purchased the travemate P253 with i5, 4GB. I installed windows 7.I started by uninstalling about half the programmes

and then installed ccleaner and microsoft essentials. I have no files as these are all on my hotmail account.

I have only 41 gb of free space and every time I delete something the free space on disc c decreases by the amount deleted instead of increasing.

I have deleted hibernate and virtually everything else that I can but free space continues to decrease.

It is as though everything I delete is then doubled and added to the disc.

I would very much appreciate advice please but may I ask that this be expressed in idiots terms. thank you.

[MDacerGuy]

sounds stranger

but go to the recycle bin and make sure everything really is gone

then get a program like FolderSizes, it'll show you what folders/files is taking up all your space

[jackteet]

Hi MDacerGuy,

Thanks very much. I have downloaded the link and can see that "Users" is taking 92.22% of the disc consisting of 4,932 files.

Some files  are "public" and some relate directly to things like desktop, favourites, games etc. "Users" is showm as "Builtin Administrators from 2009; whatever that is.What "Public" means I have no idea.

The recycle bin is empty.

I am temptied to restore lappy to manufacters specs. I have no personal files, photos etc and all I need to do is again add favourites and the bar and get rid of a lot of rubbish programmes that acer load onto these machines.

I have run a virus scan and all is clear. Any opinions would be very much appreciated.

[jackteet]

Hi MDacerGuy, I have looked in more depth and found there are two programmes that are taking up disc space. The first is NTUSER.DAT and NSISPlugin.3812.dll. Do these mean anything to you please as I am a bit worried about just deleting them.

Thanks.

[miguel69]

there might be  a 'shadow copy' utility running that allows you to undo changes, also system restore could be making undo copies of your changes. try doing this: select control panel/system and maintenance/admin tools/free disk space/(select drive and accept)/in the first tab select the files to free up and  accept.

NOTE: DO NOT select 'eliminate hibernation files' as this removes 'hiberfile.sys' and you will no longer be able to hibernate your system. (if this happens do the following -- go to Programs/accesories/ rt click-system prompt /run as administrator //at the prompt type "powercfg -h on <enter>" (no quotes) // when the prompt returns type "exit <enter>").

when this finishes select the 'more options' tab and click the button under 'system restore and snapshots' this will remove all the system restore points and snapshots except the last one. this should free up all that missing space.

NOTE: system restore saves a new restore point daily on startup and before important events (program/driver/update installs and uninstalls) this is probably the main reason you did not get back the space when you uninstalled your junk programs, a copy went to a system restore point so you could undo it.