BleepingComputer.com: Memory issues

Okay, so I am having this problem with Vista Pro on my laptop and also my parents. What happens is, I add stuff, you know, download so on and so forth, it takes up space, all the things we all know will happen. Then I go to delete these straight from the control panel process and it ends up TAKING space as I delete things. When I had about 8GB left on my computer of storage, I had these 3 games that took up about another 10, at LEAST. After taking these games off, I now only have 2.7GB storage. Now I believe it should have went up to 16-18GB not down even more. My dad believes the computers are saving stuff into the hidden files, but I looked into them, I have found nothing that could have taken up that much space. I am udderly stumped on what to do to try to clear this memory back up or what the hell is going on. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Brian

UPDATE: I went through the hidden files and cleared about 1g of storage from junk that shouldn't have been there. Still, I have to be missing something, there is a lot more floating around some where.

What about your recycle Bin. Have you empty it yet? You are saying Memory do you mean Drive space?

This post has been edited by Carlos Stephens: 17 March 2009 - 06:06 PM

hello berg54

http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/wind...dows-vista.html

pay special attention to removing shadow copys of system restore!!! you will be amazed at how much space you gain.

good luck
kenny