PC problem
- Thread starter Blitzkrieg
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phlogiston
Bejabbers!
System Restore Points eats up some space too.
How did you check the total space taken, Blitz? Did you take into account hidden files? (Like System Restore Point and Swapfiles.)
How did you check the total space taken, Blitz? Did you take into account hidden files? (Like System Restore Point and Swapfiles.)
Lord Tim
That guy from LORD
OK, if you have any games, they can take up a SHITLOAD of space.
If you have more than a gig of RAM then sometimes there's XP likes to shadow it so you have some pretty massive (ie: 2 gig+) files on your drive. Hibernation files are another one...
If you have more than a gig of RAM then sometimes there's XP likes to shadow it so you have some pretty massive (ie: 2 gig+) files on your drive. Hibernation files are another one...
Nah, how does one do that?phlogiston said:
Didn't get around to putting games on yet.Lord Tim said:
I don't have that much RAM.
Would that help?Sydo said:
The brand spankin' new version of AVG is kicking arse for me. Hidden folder found, with a FUCKLOAD of SHIT in it. 6800 infected files detected, and still on the rise. I hope this is all the problem is.
MeKaChrOme
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Has it given you a lot of space back? You might want to get all the windows security updates, etc, + a firewall (free ones are around)..
ok dumb Q - whats AVG ? (anti virus god ??) sounds like a cool app...
Also, have you tried to do that Disk Cleanup thingy from the C: (and other drives) properties...
good luck with it.
Also, have you tried to do that Disk Cleanup thingy from the C: (and other drives) properties...
good luck with it.
Lord Tim
That guy from LORD
Is it the free version you're using? That's what I use. Glad to hear it's working well for you! Gives me some confidence that it's protecting my PC pretty well. Have you done a check for spyware as well? I use Spyware Doctor (got the top rating in a magazine article I read), combined with Ad-Aware. Gotta love free stuff.
KoichCPA
Banned
Jordy, trust me one thing.
Use Sygate as your firewall. It's free, uses the least amount of ram and it easy as fuck to use.
Use Sygate as your firewall. It's free, uses the least amount of ram and it easy as fuck to use.
Sygate eh? Perhaps I will.
It took many hours to detect and delete everything, but AVG came through for me. 9,823 files in all, taking up over 7GB. Insane. I wonder if they downloaded under my nose, or if the virus somehow created them all.
It took many hours to detect and delete everything, but AVG came through for me. 9,823 files in all, taking up over 7GB. Insane. I wonder if they downloaded under my nose, or if the virus somehow created them all.
Lord Tim
That guy from LORD
Possible you were being used as a drop off point to be a remote file sharer. So people would upload shit to your machine for other people to get using a trojan backdoor into your system...
I'd be changing your passwords pretty soon...
I'd be changing your passwords pretty soon...
KoichCPA
Banned
Naa, he could easily be a file server for images and stuff without it really affecting his browesing.
