Why does the free space in my c-drive fluctuate a lot? ?

Question

I have an old laptop, with local c-drive and d-drive. These days the free space in my c-drive fluctuates a lot while I'm not doing anything unusual (just writing with Word or browsing the internet). The free space would change from 1.2 GB to 130 MB, and then back to 600MB, and then back to 130 MB again. Windows keeps giving me warnings that I have insufficient space in the C-drive, while I'm not doing anything unusual. What's going on? I've done a virus check and didn't find anything. Thanks for any clue.

Answer 1

im not too sure to be honest but it sounds like you have very little space left, i read once u should keep a good 25% for it to run smoothly, prob just some idiot though, either way, do u know about system restore? you can get lots of memory back doing this. Open control panel-go on system-system restore- and move the bar to the minimum amount, this shud give you some disk space back. then perform a disk cleanup and look on advanced options, and delete all but the previous restore point (so you always have one) and this should again free up a lot of memory. good luck.

Answer 2

Check on the virtual memory settings, it may be the case that your swap file is taking up all of your space.

Also try a defrag and clean, the fragments may be using up space.