Did you per chance empty the recycle bin? But default the recycle bin
is allocated 10% of the disk space. For your 40GB drive emptying the
recycle bin would free 4GB of space. Add a couple of very large files
(which, at 700MB, are probably too large to go into the recycle bin) and
you're at roughly the number you report.
Chuck Norcutt
Brian Swale wrote:
> Some things about my Acer XP machine puzzle me. (40GB HDD)
>
> I was down to about 500MB free space, so I saved 2 x 700 MB image files
> to CDROM, and deleted them from the HD.
>
> Winpatrol in this period also detected that Java was trying to upgrade my
> computer, and since I know from past experience those downloads are
> huge, I instructed Winpatrol to knock that one on the head. A Flash upgrade
> was also denied. I have no use for Flash.
>
> The machine now has 4.77 GB free !! Where on earth did it find that
> space? What info have I lost?
>
> Many thanks to Moose for the HD Tune link. A useful program.
>
> I also have Aida32 which is immensely informative. I have no idea if it works
> on later flavours of Winders. The talented author of this program was head-
> hunted by Google or some-such a couple of years ago, so work on it has
> ceased AFAIK.
>
> Brian Swale.
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