I am down to about 5 gigs of space on my 70 gig hd. I'm running Windows XP. I decided to free up some space so I deleted about 15 gigs in files. I go to check my new free space and it still shows 5 gigs. I refresh it and it stil says 5 gigs. I run Disk Defragmenter and still 5 gigs.... WTF IS GOING ON???

 

um...how did you "delete" these files?

 

clear the recyclin bin :chuckles:

 

make sure to check your virtual space ... damn ... i forgot the exact way to do it.

 

are they still in the garbage can? h: might as well get that one out the way.

 

Turn off system restore.

 

clear out your recycle bin, run disk clean up to get rid of even more un seen files that windows hides from you. and voila you should be set.

then restart and bloop.

 

haha i'm no newb.... of course i cleared the recycle bin

i basically deleted a folder of files equalling 15 gigs...

 

i turned off system restore and checked virtual memory... i got 2 gigs back but thats it

 

right click my computer. click properties. there's a tab there called system restore. check the box to turn it off.

Once it's off... of course clean the recycle bin. Don't worry about virtual space... windows will do with that what it needs to.

Then do a disk cleanup. Start, programs, accessories, system tools.

Reboot. defrag. reboot. done.