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How do I free memory on my laptop?
So... My laptop is full of memory again even though I haven't installed any games, or anything large in size... I don't understand how its filling up. I had the same problem 4 months ago (my other questions) and i did the disk cleanup and saved 3GB space. I did the disk cleanup today and saved 600MB... So what the hell took up the 2.4GB that I saved last time? This is a joke. My laptop sais i have 80GB HDD on the sticker, yet my C: drive has only 32.5GB space... 19GB of this is used by a windows folder... Which means I have 13.5GB of space to myself... How do i clear it up? And what can I do?
3 Answers
- AdrianLv 71 decade agoFavourite answer
Other than running cleaners or removing programs, not much you can do...
Windows has a nasty habit of saving all previous files from all updates - eventually eating up enormous amounts of disk space (GB's worth). You cannot just delete the files, as each has registry entries. For some reason MS thinks that someday, you may want to roll back 2 years of updates rofl...
My old system had many GB of these "saved" update rollbacks - a total waste of space... I did find one utility once (for XP - I'm now Vista), where I could pick each "rollback" folder in the windows folder, and have it removed, along with the proper registry entry removed. It was a manual process, but it did clean up a lot....
Also, to save space, move your paging file from C: to D: drive if you can. Remove any applications and re-install them on a D: drive if it has empty space... I'm assuming you have a D: drive, since you are using only a 32GB partition for C:.... Maybe you never formatted the D: drive to start with?? Go into Control Panel, Administration tools, disk manager, and check that all your disk space is allocated as partitions. Be careful not to delete any "recovery" partitions...
- 1 decade ago
go to more options at disk cleanup and delete system restore points, this takes time to process so hang on till the ok button appears, the last restore point is saved so don't worry.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
De-fragmenting your disk might free some space, and will make it quite a bit faster.
