Reformate and reload 7. It takes all of 45min max (It looks like you have spent more time then that trying to figure this out) and you will have a fresh OS. I have been running a 80gig SCSI for my 7 system drive for months and have never had an issue with that. Still have about half free.
It may be worth your while to try a live distro of Ubuntu (linux). It may give you a better view of whats on your drive and it is not necessary to instal anything (definately dont instal it). It boots direct from the optical drive.
Run the registry cleaner on CCleaner. (Keep scanning until it shows no issues found) Look at what's on your startup with CCleaner. Put "no" for whatever it is you don't want to startup when you log in. Go through ALL YOUR PROGRAMS with CCleaner. Whatever you don't want, get rid of it. If you don't know what the program is, look it up on google. If you have Microsoft Security Essentials, run that thing on full scan. If you don't have it, get it and run it on full scan. After you've done all this, wait a while. Perhaps a few days. If you are getting no memory back or are still losing some, check on google. (Mind as well at this point)
' Wrote:Once a Man who are Selling Ships see an Big Battleship he Ask the Commander from the Battleship that he want to sell this ship, but the Commander wouldnt he say I have an binding to this ship I dont sell this ship for All Money in Sirius so as the Commander and his Crew at Freeport 9 sleeping the Man and his Pirates the buy for much money going into the ship and stole the Battleship Next morning as the Commander and his Crew go to there ship it was not there...
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The greatest Roleplay ever of an Outcast Battleship being "Stolen"
True, but if you re-install you know the problem is gone. Also... look into some imaging software. I have images made for all of my pcs. Once I build a machine and install all the software I make an image and back it up somewhere. That way if my system goes Tango Uniform I can have it back fresh as new in about 15 min.
I don't have very much to add, but I'll share a nice little program. It may help you if there is just something taking suprisingly large amount of space.
You can set maximum depth in the settings, so it doesn't show all the files, but sub-directories up to the depth. The view of all the files at once can be too confusing. It will also speed up the processing