wanishing disk space

[zandric]

When i turn on my TP 52 it has cca 34 GB of free disk space...

After a while on internet (using java aplets) disk space is shrinking considerbly - once it was Disk full!!! - usualy it is like 5-7 GB "eaten" after 6-7 hours.

I have win xp pro, avg, microsoft anti spyware. Everything is up to date and after additional checks I am nearly positive that I don't have any viruses & malware or spyware.

Any idea how i can cope with it?

Regards

Zoran

[emorphien]

You have 34GB, of free space?

And while surfing the web, running Java you use up 5-7GB?

That alone is NOT normal. I'd suggest making sure everything really is up to date and doing a thorough scan with things like adaware and spybot in addition to antivirus.

You should't be using 5-7 gb even after surfing the web for months or years (well ok this might depend on what you download )!

[jeffcrilly]

My guess is that the internet cache is getting chewed up.

Go to web browser (e.g. IE) and check the settings for "temporary internet files", etc.

The applets are likely getting cached.

Now, w/ java 1.4 and 1.5, iirc, its a plugin and has its own cache for applets. So you might want to check the settings of java in the control panel.

The other thing that can chew up space is if you have an app leaking memory. You can check this in taks manager (look at the processes tab).

jeff

[GomJabbar]

As jeffcrilly was alluding to, there are cache settings for your browser. For Internet Explorer, you can go to Start > Control Panel > Internet Options > Settings..., and from there you will see a slider for the amount of disk space you choose to use. (I believe you can get to this from an IE menu as well, but I almost never use IE, so I am not too familiar with it).

Other browsers have simular settings. I use Netscape 7.2, and under Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Cache, there is a box to input the amount of disk space in Mb to allow for cache.

In Firefox, you choose Tools > Options > Privacy > Cache, to likewise input the amount of disk space to allow.

[Deckard]

I'm guessing that it's the Microsoft Antispyware.

Go to the directory where the Microsoft Antispyware is installed. There you'll see a file called errors.log

Check the size on that file. I have discovered purely by chance that the file on my hard drive was 4GB big

[boofoo]

A great (free) utility for finding oversize files/directories is WinDirStat:

http://windirstat.sourceforge.net/

It will help track down where your wasted space is going.[/url]

[evalf]

I experienced a similar problem recently. It was caused by bootvis.exe, that triggered a log file to be created every time windows was started. I got rid of it by starting bootvis again and set of the logging.
I hope this can help you.

[zandric]

I experienced a similar problem recently. It was caused by bootvis.exe, that triggered a log file to be created every time windows was started. I got rid of it by starting bootvis again and set of the logging.
I hope this can help you.

Yes... That was problem. Bootvis seem to run log file which can grow to any extent when is started only once. That solved my problem.... Temporarely...

Previously, after reboot I had 34GB of free space and now I have "stedy" 27 GB. Still suspicious on some other program that is writting in same dir (c:\windows\system32\logfiles\wmi) I have there two files 2D4.tmp and 354.tmp that have cca 6GB. still trying to locate program that is asociated with those files.

Z.

[GomJabbar]

I have there two files 2D4.tmp and 354.tmp that have cca 6GB. still trying to locate program that is asociated with those files.

Those are just temporary files. It is my experience that you can delete them with impunity. Sometimes you can't delete certain temp or tmp files because they are in use at the time, but upon reboot you can delete them.