New laptop's hard drive filling up on its own???

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MCarlisle

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Hello all, this is my first post and I'm in need of some help. What would make a hard drive increase without adding me installing or downloading anything???

I bought an Asus laptop on Windows Vista, and for some strange reason, every time I check the hard drive stats, the used space has jumped up by SEVERAL GIGABYTES. I haven't downloaded any music, videos, or software, bootleg or legal.

I didn't know what to do so I took some notes on different days:

2009-04-25, 12:02pm
30.3 GB Used space
192 GB Free space

2009-04-30, 6:30pm
46.9 GB Used space
175 GB Free space

2009-05-02, 3:46pm
49.3 GB Used space
172 GB Free space

2009-05-03, 12:46pm
51.8 GB Used space
170 GB Free space


Any idea of what's going on???
 
Damn...........i would be interested if that was the problem. i didn't realize it would take up that much space. My sister has a similar problem. Not a big hd though. i think 40 gig. i will be looking at it next week. i checked my wifes computer the other day. her hd was a lot bigger though. ran ccleaner and came up with a gig of just cookies.

if anybody knows anything about the comment above and gigs for a restore point im listening and curious. please reply back if you do figure it out.
good luck.
 
This is right from my Control Panel, System Properties.

It should not keep getting bigger, as it deletes old points.

How much disk space does System Restore require?

To store restore points, you need at least 300 megabytes (MB) of free space on
each hard disk that has System Protection turned on. System Restore might use
up to 15 percent of the space on each disk. As the amount of space fills up with
restore points, System Restore will delete older restore points to make room for new ones.

System Restore will not run on disks smaller than 1 gigabyte (GB).
Click to expand...
 
You can go into Task Scheduler and change it from "create system restore point daily" to monthly.
 
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