Gaining HDD Free Space?
I was playing Fable and Fraps was running in the background. Since Fable and Fraps use similar hotkeys, I found myself inadvertently capturing video of myself playing Fable.
After I closed Fable I found that XP had a "your running low on disk space" balloon pop-up in the taskbar. Naturally I was puzzled by this (I had about 6GB of free space before, and I didn't know that Fraps had recorded the videos) and clicked the balloon.
The XP Disk Cleanup box came up and I left it run for a while. Then I ran CCleaner which freed about 60MB, and the Disk Analysis tool in Glary Utilities. Here I found that Fraps had recorded the videos.
Next I closed the XP Disk Cleanup box (as it wasn't necessary), and another window opened saying that the "low disk space was resolved and around 5000MB of free space was there. I was puzzled again, since I hadn't deleted the video files yet.
I opened up My Computer and clicked on my C: drive and found that there was 6GB of free space. I refreshed My Computer and clicked on the C: drive again, now there was around 6.2GB of free space. I waited for a few minutes to see where this would take me. It stopped at 15.4GB of free space, and I still hadn't deleted the Fable videos.
Now I have deleted the video files and free space is sitting at 21.4GB. Where did the free 15GB come from?
After I closed Fable I found that XP had a "your running low on disk space" balloon pop-up in the taskbar. Naturally I was puzzled by this (I had about 6GB of free space before, and I didn't know that Fraps had recorded the videos) and clicked the balloon.
The XP Disk Cleanup box came up and I left it run for a while. Then I ran CCleaner which freed about 60MB, and the Disk Analysis tool in Glary Utilities. Here I found that Fraps had recorded the videos.
Next I closed the XP Disk Cleanup box (as it wasn't necessary), and another window opened saying that the "low disk space was resolved and around 5000MB of free space was there. I was puzzled again, since I hadn't deleted the video files yet.
I opened up My Computer and clicked on my C: drive and found that there was 6GB of free space. I refreshed My Computer and clicked on the C: drive again, now there was around 6.2GB of free space. I waited for a few minutes to see where this would take me. It stopped at 15.4GB of free space, and I still hadn't deleted the Fable videos.
Now I have deleted the video files and free space is sitting at 21.4GB. Where did the free 15GB come from?
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