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[Reaper]

I don't know much about computers, but I noticed that I went from 200 GB to 1 gb in the matter of 2 days...what should I do? Thanks. (oh and explain in toddler terms, cause thats what I can understand when it comes to computers...lol) A friend told me to compress the hard drive, but when I woke up today, I'm down to 1 gb (it was 20g gb last night)

[Sida]

1) Clear out the shit. If you've just reached 200gb, then there's probably about 50 gigs worth of shit you dont need.
2) My computer > Add or Remove Programs. Arrange the list in order of size and see if any of the big beefy programs are unneeded now.
3) Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Cleanup. That will try and make some space for you, takes a while though.
4) Compress your HDD like your friend said.
5) Buy a new HDD, they're cheap as fuck now and aren't hard to install.

[Oaken]

How do you go from having 200GB of free space to 1GB in two days?

[Sida]

How do you go from having 200GB of free space to 1GB in two days?

Download as much shit as I do

[KKane]

I've done things like that before.

[Reaper]

1) Clear out the shit. If you've just reached 200gb, then there's probably about 50 gigs worth of shit you dont need.
2) My computer > Add or Remove Programs. Arrange the list in order of size and see if any of the big beefy programs are unneeded now.
3) Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Cleanup. That will try and make some space for you, takes a while though.
4) Compress your HDD like your friend said.
5) Buy a new HDD, they're cheap as fuck now and aren't hard to install.

Thanks, I'm starting to do that now!

[Fatal]

I wouldn't compress the hard drive, that's going to reduce performance on already the slowest component of the computer. Not smart.