hard drive issue

[mkjuk]

A little while ago my 33 gb hard drive filled up, I dont know what exactly i did but i freed up half the space without deleting any files. now its full again even thought i havent downloaded more than about 2-3 gigs worth of stuff. how do i free up the space again.

PS spend about 6 hours a day on firefox so is it something to do with temporary firefox files?

Please help

[darkangel06]

right i have an idea, what you could try is going on your internet options in control panel and selecting to delete cookies and delete temperary internet files. it stores every picture on every page you have browsed. so that might free up some space. dont get worried if it takes a while once you click it coz it might be pretty full. i would also try and use the system tools to defrage the computer which might help. well hope thats works for you.....

[Ralph]

Download Space Monger which will examine your disk and show you coloured blocks that correspond to the files on the disk. You may find that you've got a few huge files on there taking up all your space.

I found 11 hidden files with various filenames, all letters of the alphabet and each one 1,572,072KB in size (16.4GB total!) hiding in C:\Windows, but I can't do anything to delete them. Loads of searching has yielded nothing, but my drive is 120GB, so I'm not worried, but it would be serious for you perhaps. I think a format & reinstall would fix it, but that's quite drastic.