Re: OT:PC problem


" \¯`·.¸biz¸.·´¯/" <sook@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"neuro" <neuro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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bobalongcassidy wrote:
Hi Guys

I have a rather unusual problem with my PC. I am rapidly losing disc
space.
I usually keep about 100Gig free, but last Saturday this was going down
(within about 90 mins) to only 10Gig. I rebooted the machine, and it
brought
it back up to the usual amount, however, it started losing it again.
The
only solution was to shut down the PC, and that seemed to work
fine.....until today, when it's doing exactly the same thing, but this
time,
shutting down restores the lost space, but it continues to lose it over
the
course of about two hours. I have ran a virus, anti-spy, did a disk
cleanup
etc etc, but nothing seems to help.

Tried firing up the Task Manager? On XP Pro, press CTRL+ALT+DEL then
click
Task Manager; on XP Home, just press CTRL+ALT+DEL. Click on the
'Processes'
tab and click on the Mem Usage column header twice to sort by memory
usage
in descending order. You should see what's hogging your memory, and
possibly eating away at your virtual memory page file.

Failing that, grab a copy of Process Explorer from the sysinternals.com
site: http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html Run
that
and you'll get a list of running processes. Right-click to the right of
the
Company Name column and click Select Columns. Click on the 'Process
Performance' tab and click both I/O Read Bytes and I/O Write Bytes tick
boxes. Click OK. You can now sort running processes by the amount of
data
they are writing to disk by clicking the I/O Write Bytes column twice.
Hopefully that'll show you what process is battering at the hard disk
and
chewing up space!

Good luck!

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Thanks a lot guys. It seems to have fixed itself for the moment. But it
did
this last week and then six days later started the funny bugger's stuff
again. I have downloaded tree size personal, and I'm giving that a go.
I'll
try a few other things too. I've a feeling it'll happen again, and then
maybe if none of the suggestions work, I'll do a format.

Many thanks for your help.

Ive had a dose of the computer clap recently, and as a result have had to
reformat
and reinstall. Its a pain in the cnut to be honest, especially if you have
anywhere near 300GB of progs, games, saves, and docs.

Hopefully your prog will sort itself out and you can avoid a re-install
until
Windows Vista becomes the new standard OS.

Here's an idea that might help...
Your virtual memory page file (an area of your HDD that windows puts aside
to act
as virtual RAM) is by default controlled by windows. You can instead
specify how
much disk space you want to be used for this purpose. It might be that
your page
file is being run up to 40 or 50GB for some odd reason.. ideally it should
be 1 to
3GB in size (I keep mine between 2 and 4).

Change your setting manually at:
Control Panel/System/Performance 'Settings'/Advanced/Virtual Memory
'Change'/...

Select the Disk where your Windows is saved on, and then choose 'Custom
Size'.
Make the size initial: 2000 and maximum: 4000 THEN PRESS 'SET'

You'll need to reboot your pc for the change to take effect.

On disks where I have Windows and Programs I use the above settings, and
on disks
where I only have data and documents I dont have any page file at all,
keeps
things a bit uniform and a bit more stable.

Hope this helps as a fix for your runaway disk space, I cant think of
anything
else that would cause the reported size to fall so much!

biz

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by itself?



Thanks a lot, Mate. Your detailed help is much appreciated, and I'll try it
in the morning after I've had some sleep!


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