Aspire 5517 memory

Im new to Acer, and to these forums, so if im doing something wrong please let me know instead of beating me up with your keyboards.

I recently purchased a 5517-5779 from best buy. Got a nice deal on it and i think im starting to see why...its only a 160gb HD which im kinda kicking myself for getting. To start with i was sitting at about 105gb with nothing of my own installed.

a week later im sitting at 99.6gb. i have still installed nothing. i have used many HP's and havent had this problem.. there seems to be a memory leak somewhere. Are these prominent with Acer products? I should have familiarized myself with Acer a bit more before purchasing one of their products. If i could resolve this issue i would be 100% satisfied with my newest purchase.

ETA-The pc has already had the geek squads "optimization and restoration" done.


Thanks in advanced guys and girls.

 

any comments?

 

it's called system restore. 5GB is hardly anything to be worried about.

right click drive>properties>disk cleanup>more options>clean up system restore.

 

Yep...some more info/other causes for hard drive space disappearing.

Where's All My Disk Space Going?