Hey,

I have a bit of a problem, which i was hoping one of you could help me with.

My install. (LEGIT) Win XP Pro SP1a for some strange reason insists upon eating approx 20 mb per day. I cannot find where this data is going. And of course yet, I allow for "Downloads", and other crap. I've cleared my net "temp" files jus tin case that was the problem... but still I cannot find the problem.

If someone knows how to find the problem, or if someone knows how to fix it please post!!

Thanks,

system restore?

try disabling it

Oops, 20MB a day means 140MB a week!

EDITED

turn off system restore, turn off hibernation, use disk cleanup to delete your temp and temp internet files.

do a virus scan. someviruses eat up space with just they generate.

I would agree with either the system restore idea, or a virus. If you don't have virus scanning software (which everyone on the planet should) then you can scan online for free at http://housecall.antivirus.com

I had a virus on my 98 computer and I was out of harddrive space.
So I went and uninstalled and deleted stuff. ran scandisk and defrag.
the next morning I was out of harddrive space

Hey, I remember that virus! ( well mine was a worm )
It created a keylog file that just grew and grew.

Thank you for your help!

You are the men! (and possibly women)

SyS

There may be stuff in prefetch to. I would delete all of that. Idf you still have problems. Get a copy of Clean Sweep.

I had another problem like that.
I was trying to render a video that Movie Maker didn't like.
it kept going back and adding 10megs to the file size.
when I found it the video was over 800megs and had nothing in it!
I was ticked.