I've installed some programs and games lately and I've deleted all files remaining from these programs and games. Windows doesn't seem to have acknowledged that I've removed these programs. I've installed another and now Window's is telling me I only have 6.33mb of free space left. I actually have many gigabytes of space left. My pc is preventing me from doing things because of its perceived lack of space, and I can't install any programs. How can I show my computer that it's wrong and that it has free space?1 person needs an answerI do too

I would be interested in seeing a Disk Defragmenter report. Open Disk Defragmenter and click on Analyse. Select View Report and click on Save As and Save. Now find VolumeC.txt in your My Documents Folder. Open the file, and place the cursor anywhere in the file, select Edit, Select All to highlight all text and copy and paste into the body of your message. Do this before running Disk Defragmenter as it is more informative.Hope this helps, Gerry Cornell

Run a disk cleanup and scandisk to run a disk cleanup:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310312And Scandisk: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315265

you might try to run a check disk, which will reconcile the file system to the mft. also, you might want to run a disk wiping utility afterwards and set it to clear out space that has been marked as unused. -- db`...><)))> ."csacwp" wrote in message news:98c7237d-d2b0-486c-b5f5-f68828eaa062...I've installed some programs and games lately and I've deleted all files remaining from these programs and games. Windows doesn't seem to have acknowledged that I've removed these programs. I've installed another and now Window's is telling me I only have 6.33mb of free space left. I actually have many gigabytes of space left. My pc is preventing me from doing things because of its perceived lack of space, and I can't install any programs. How can I show my computer that it's wrong and that it has free space?db`...>-)))> `...>-)))> share the nirvana mann

I've installed some programs and games lately and I've deleted all files remaining from these programs and games. Windows doesn't seem to have acknowledged that I've removed these programs. I've installed another and now Window's is telling me I only have 6.33mb of free space left. I actually have many gigabytes of space left. My pc is preventing me from doing things because of its perceived lack of space, and I can't install any programs. How can I show my computer that it's wrong and that it has free space?If running disk cleanup (Start > Run > cleanmgr.exe > OK) followed by a reboot doesn't work, please (a) explain why you think you have lots of free space (e.g., you looked at the disk's properties using a right click on the drive icon in My Computer) and (b) download and run free JDiskReport (you can uninstall it after you run it) to identify what files are taking up the space.BTW, "scandisk" referenced by Saurabh Joshi and "check disk" referenced by Database Ben are both actually chkdsk.exe. Whether running this would help or not is debatable, but if you want to check the status of your disk, do so by:Start > Run > chkdsk /f > OKA window will pop up stating: Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N)Type Y and then reboot the computer. Depending on the size of your disk, this may take a while. Be patient and wait until it's finished. If you're not sitting in front of the monitor when it finishes, you can find the report in the Event Viewer (Start > Run > eventvwr > OK) in the Application log. Look for an event from process Winlogon.