were has all my hdd space gone??

ok, well just a min ago i was in documents and settings, i right clicked on my user and selected properties, it said that the folder contained over 6gb of data, so i went into the folder and highlighted every file, and total space took up by all files in the folder reading over 6gb was 141mb.

so were has all my space gone, is there anyway to retrive all this space??

 

The data for your user is not just in my documents. Its in C:\Documents and Settings\username\

 

i know, i said, i was looking in documents and settings, then i right clicked on my username, and it said it had 6gb of data in, but when i went into it, i highlighted everyhitng it was only 141mb, that was in documents and settings/ my user (will)

 

Goto tools > folder options > view > and check off view hidden folders and files and see if quite a few files show up.

If it's already on view hidden files I'd suggest doing a scandisk and try defragging the drive and see if that resolves it.

 

were would toold be

also how do i run scandisk???

 

i tried finding it, but i can't

it seems to scan on boot

but be sure to defrag a good 3 or 4 times until it flys by on it

 

my computer dont scan on boot, so i need to find scandisk and show hidden files

 

ooo oo, all the used space was from tempory files, how do i clear tempory files.?

 

You can't find scandisk? Idiot! It's simple - Start, Control Panel, Performance and Maintenance, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management, Storage, right-click the Volume, Tools, Options, Check Now button, Select Options, Start. And you couldn't figure that out for yourself?

http://www.duxcw.com/faq/win/xp/scandisk.htm

 

oi oi, its not everday i go in there, its about 8 months since i have bieng in control panel.

 

Oh alright then, I'll let you off this time.

P. S. Google is your friend.

 

I forgot where that was too.

 

how do i get rid of all the tempory files??

 

Can't you just right-click on them and select delete? If you hold down the shift key and click on delete it will actually delete them rather than send them to the Recycle Bin.

 

yea i can do that, but i dont want to muck up the system by deleating all of em.
does it actually matter if i get rid of em all???

 

They're temporary files so in theory you shouldn't. Well actually in theory the program that created the files should also have deleted them when it was done but that's another subject. To be safe though I would reboot into safe mode or DOS mode (making it less likely that any of the files are being used) and delete them from there.

 

Temporary files morethan a week old can be safely deleted. So try sorting by date modified.

 

what would be the effects if i deleated all of em??

 

They're tepmorary files so in theory you shouldn't. Well actually in theory the program that created the files should also have deleted them when it was done but that's another subject. To be safe though I would reboot into safe mode or DOS mode (making it less likely that any of the files are being used) and delete them from there.

 

how do i boot into dos mode???, i know how to boot into safe mode.