My laptop eats gigs a day? not shure if right spot sry.

my laptop will eat gids of its hard drive a day. im so confused. i defrag everyday. i ccleaner, virus scan spyware/malware/adware scan. i do that ell everyday. right before i stop using it. defrag last. im so lost. i dont add gigs of stuff a day. but in 1 week. its used up 10gb. and i didnt add anything.
here are specs. or as many as i can tell u.

vista premium
3gb ram
160 sata hardrive
AMD turion 64 x2 2.0ghz procesors
15.4in screen

im also ready boosting it with a 1gb sd card.
if im missing any info u need tell me. ill do what i can to find it.

 

Defrag will use up space temporarily as a swap file. It will return when you restart.

System restore will use up space periodically. You can clean this using Disk Cleanup

Read this thread

 

Swap file, temp files and system restore. Run a Disk Cleanup and watch your space magically re-appear. Just make sure you select the option to clean all but your most recent restore point. That is if you are ok with doing so.

Speaking of which, Hey Flipfire, youre pretty knowledgeable. Can you think of any reason why my restore points wont delete on Vista x64? I do a cleanup and the hard drive space remains the same. This has always worked on my other machines.

 

SP1? Administrator profile?

Try flushing it out using the cmd prompt. You can also downsize the shadow copy capacity. (just google the commands ). Make sure all your security programs are disabled.

Also try typing vsp1cln.exe on your cmd prompt.

Im suprised Ccleaner hasnt included Restore points as an option.

 

ok.. should i just use the normal vista disc clean up. and that only recovered 3 gb's

anything else i can do? thx alot for all the info so far and all info in the future.

 

Download a program called CCleaner. Its a very handy program and its for free.

 

yes- service pack 1
yes- administrator

and im not too experienced with laptops. so i have no idea what "shadow copy capacity" even is but i did do the vsp1cln.exe thing u said to. and how am i supposed to flush using the cmd prompt.

 

Yes to both. Im going to try the command prompt now. I totally forgot about that. Thanks a bunch.

 

This may be of some help, as well. I found it upon googling for the command prompt commands. Shadow copy had reserved almost 50gb space, to which I dropped to 10gb. Thanks for your suggestion flip!

 

i changed the shadow storage. mine was set to 20gb
i changed it to 10. that should help my storage alot. i hope. im gonna restart and find out. ill post results after.

 

my god. i just got back 10gb's of my drive. i suggest to anyone who reads this post and wants more Hard drive space. go to the link that the guy above 2 posts above me has. and check ur shadow storage. mine was set to 20. i changed it to to. i restarted and poof i had my 10gb's back.actuall more than that. i got 20gbs back. cause i also wiped all restore points. ima make a new one now. but still. do it iff it needs to be done.