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my computer hard drive space is vanishing?

i installed steam cuz tf2 is free, and i had like 350 gb, and i freak out when i lose like 10 mb, so imagine wat it feels like in my head. anyway, next day, i have like 295gb, then 235, and now 197 gb! whats goin on?!

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  • 10 years ago
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    I can't remember the exact name of it, but there is a type of virus that chokes up your systems resources by duplicating its self to the point where your computer won't boot. You should do a virus scan (Even though that's actually pointless because all viruses purposefully break your antivirus and stop you installing a new one.)

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    4 years ago

    have you ever emptied your recycle bin? If that isn't any longer your situation, that is probably an out of control log document or some thing. On a Mac, i might propose WhatSize to allow you recognize precisely the place all your archives is gathering. i'm particular there may well be comparable innovations for a domicile windows computing device. restoration application one hundred and one: once you delete a document it is going on your recycle bin yet domicile windows nevertheless keeps track of them. once you empty your recycle bin the records nevertheless are not long gone yet domicile windows "forgets" the place they are and can provide up the gap the place that document used to stay to make it available to be written over via new records. restoration application works via searching for that archives it particularly is in any different case forgotten.

  • 10 years ago

    it saves video and games to the disk YES

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