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hi everyone.

 why loosing disc space (windows 7)? suspected "hiberfil.sys" cant find in windows, disabled hibernate , sleep features 116gb drive ("c") 95% gone no games; no vid; no songs. (maybe still need dump file.) after dumping recycle bin, on drive including office 2007, mediaplayer , few minors  adds 2.85gb. what's happening 110 gig? ideas anyone?

:-(

terry

ps please without installing 3rd party software,

hi,

if not want install 3rd party software fix this, use disk cleanup , check space allocated system restore.

otherwise:

use free program see what is taking space.

http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/

here how understand treesize screenshots:

http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/screenshots.shtml

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also check see how space system restore using:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/how-much-disk-space-does-system-restore-require

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you can clean hard drive using these 2 methods.

"delete files using disk cleanup"

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/delete-files-using-disk-cleanup#delete-files-using-disk-cleanup=windows-7

using free ccleaner program:

http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

under no condition use registry cleaning option in ccleaner

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and download, install, update , scan system free version of malwarebytes antimalware:

http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free

and norton backup, if using norton, can strange things filling hard drive space.

cheers.

Windows / Windows 7 / Performance & system failures