Flashermac Posted December 6, 2009 Report Share Posted December 6, 2009 Two days ago, I had about 12 gigabyte used on the C partition on my PC. Yesterday, I discovered it was 39 gig! It almost all seems to be in the Administrator folder, but I can't find it. What happened, a worm? Malawarebytes finds nothing, nor does my virus scan. I've tried on line virus scans, but both BitDefender and Housecall fail to work. Housecall just quits, and BitDefender runs to about 90% - when it crashes and says it can't contact their site. Effing Thai ISP! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunsanuk Posted December 6, 2009 Report Share Posted December 6, 2009 Hi, Some possibilities: - temporary internet files - downloaded files (e.g. updates to virus scanners) - log files Try downloading 'Advanced System Care' and run it. Click the 'Maintain Windows' button and make sure 'Junk Files Clean' is turned on, then run the Scan. Sanuk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expat Posted December 6, 2009 Report Share Posted December 6, 2009 What system are you running? Make sure you have 'show hidden file and folders' checked in 'Folder and layout options.' On XP is its under tools/Folder options. Then you might be able to figure out what the big files are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted December 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2009 Windows 7. It happened so suddenly, which is the puzzlement. I dumped the browser cache, so that's gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expat Posted December 6, 2009 Report Share Posted December 6, 2009 Ok, in win 7 go to any folder, look at the top for the Organize button thingie, then find 'folder and search options', click on that sucker, go to 'view' and make sure 'show hidden files and folders' is checked. Then go to the C drive, click on users then administrator and search for the big stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expat Posted December 6, 2009 Report Share Posted December 6, 2009 By the way, I think 30 gigs is about normal for win 7. Here's a great site for making win 7 go smooth: http://www.tweakhound.com/windows7/index.htm especially the tweak guide: http://www.tweakhound.com/windows7/tweaking/index.html Do you have your OS on a separate partition, or is it mixed in with your data? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expat Posted December 6, 2009 Report Share Posted December 6, 2009 Further investigation: If you uncheck 'hide protected operating system files' in the folder options/view pane, you'll see some temp files win 7 creates in the top level of the C drive. On my system, those files are hiberfil.sys and pagefile.sys and they take up 12 gigabytes on their own. Edit Important! Make sure you hide system files again after you take a look. They are hidden for a reason--if you delete some system file by accident, you may end up destroying your OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted December 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2009 30.6 gig in the Administrator Properties folder. Is that about right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expat Posted December 6, 2009 Report Share Posted December 6, 2009 I don't know any administrator properties folder--I'm guessing you mean the administrator folder and then you got its properties? Are you logged on as Administrator? You need to root around inside the administrator folder and find which subfolders contain all that gigage--my main user folder is only about 2 gigs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted December 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2009 I click on the administrator folder and get "administrator properties". I log on as administrator - only one user (me). The folder say it contains 30.1 gigabyte, but when I look at the folders I can't account for more than about 40 megabyte! Downloading what KS suggested. Taking a long time on a Thai server. (I'm also downloading the free BitDefender.) I save all downloads in the D drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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