computer question

My hard drive is getting full... less than 8% remaining.... this is causing blue screens at a frequent rate..... 3 this morning already. 

Yet, looking at the drive..... the applications and data bases are nowhere close to being that large. 

I have moved pictures and music to D drive and gained a few GB by doing that.  What is causing the drive to fill up so quickly and is there a way to get rid of the garbage to lower the used space? 

I'm running malware bytes thinking I may have something in the drive..... so far I've not been able to complete a scan.... it freezes (MWB)  and then a BSOD pops up on me after 20 minutes or so later.... 

This just started happening in the past 3 days, but the drive has been getting near full for some time...... similar situation on a 10G really old lappy. Tried to clean up the wasted space by removing programs back to the bare essentials I need, and still the drive is full on the lappy.....

Any ideas are appreciated. 


BTW: neither are my DAW's.  AND.... in the BSOD, it does mention hard drive space.

This is your system drive yes?

What about Temporary Internet files? They can consume VAST amounts of space if not cleared out regularly

Start by emptying your recycle bin, otherwise anything on there (which you've deleted) is still actually on your hard drive.

 Just this morning I cleared the cache in temporary internet files on a computer at work. It had consumed a large portion of the drive. I used an outboard erase program that basically shreds all the files.

 Maybe this is the problem but maybe not.

+1 on CCleaner. Free too! ATF Cleaner is free and easy to use too and faster (select all).

J

I opened and ran in safe mode to run security essentials and malware bytes.... both ran perfectly and I also ran my registry cleaner..... if found a fixed a few problems.

I deleted some of the files in the recycling bin that I believe to be duplicates. I need to confirm that I have and need the files copied to my D drive, then I can delete more or all of them.  

I ran the my computer and it now shows my C drive as "green" as opposed to red..... I think it goes red at 10% remaining. So I will look into the temporary folders and clear them and dig deeper into some of the other aspects ....and look at CCleaner to free up more drive space from the unneeded garbage. 

Thanks for the suggestions and ideas...


Oh yeah... rebooted back to normal mode and so far so good. 

Glad to see it's getting resolved Herb. If you'd like a utility tool that keeps your system clean, I recommend Advanced System Care (the newest version I think is 5.4). It's very simple to use and I've used this for quite a few years on my DAW as well as other computers at home(it's also Free). 

The only issue I've had with this is that the Registry Cleaner that comes with this is a bit "too efficient" as it cleaned out my registry for X1. I just disabled that option before letting ASC scan & clean out the rest of the PC and it has worked out very well.

Some of the things it does:

"Diagnose System includes optimizing and repairing the system configuration, preventing spyware, defragmenting the disk and a security analyzer, which scans the computer to find hijacked settings."

I had to do a restore to get it stable. So far... the restore is working fine.   I've been back up and running on this for almost an hour now..... having to reinstall a few things but so far it looks good. 

probably got something corrupted somehow.... 

Thanks for the advice and Mesh... I'm trying that ASC to see how that helps.