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I run Cyberscrub to keep my drive free. Today I checked the drive and discovered it was 75% used. Usually when I run Cyberscrub I free up quite a lot of space. Well today I ran cyber and my machine crashed. Upon restarting I discovered the drive had all been used up and I can't get any free space back. Can anyone help in a non to technical way?
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Hi Cowboy
Try downloading HISTORY SWATTER it's free, and then run it, www.historyswatter.com Good luck
It looks as if Cyberscrub has created a massive temporary file which it would have deleted if the process hadn't been terminated by the crash.
Go to Start > Search and search for *.* (That's star-dot-star if it's not too clear on your screen). Before clicking the search button, however, select 'Search Options' and tick 'Size'. Enter a size of, say, 100000Kb. This will find all files on your PC bigger than 100Mb. The one you need to delete will probably be the biggest one but, if you're not sure, first check which folder it appears in. If a massive file appears in the Cyberscrub folder then it's almost certain that it's the offending one. Otherwise, as I've said, just look for something really massive. (The only file over 100Mb which most people may have on their PC is the Windows swap file, probably win386.swp. Mine is currently 593Mb! If yours is really massive this could be the offending file. Deleting your Windows swap file isn't as damaging as you might think. (Security programs routinely delete or over-write this file). If you re-boot immediately afterwards, Windows automatically creates a fresh file with this name (and a much smaller file size!).
Hoping this helps,
Chris
Go to Start > Search and search for *.* (That's star-dot-star if it's not too clear on your screen). Before clicking the search button, however, select 'Search Options' and tick 'Size'. Enter a size of, say, 100000Kb. This will find all files on your PC bigger than 100Mb. The one you need to delete will probably be the biggest one but, if you're not sure, first check which folder it appears in. If a massive file appears in the Cyberscrub folder then it's almost certain that it's the offending one. Otherwise, as I've said, just look for something really massive. (The only file over 100Mb which most people may have on their PC is the Windows swap file, probably win386.swp. Mine is currently 593Mb! If yours is really massive this could be the offending file. Deleting your Windows swap file isn't as damaging as you might think. (Security programs routinely delete or over-write this file). If you re-boot immediately afterwards, Windows automatically creates a fresh file with this name (and a much smaller file size!).
Hoping this helps,
Chris
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