I Need Help With My New Laptop

I seem to be loosing 1 GB+ a day,
now everyone of my friends "that is computer smart"
that i've told about this, has told me it's not normal.
.....
If anyone can help me?
or knows what can be going wrong,
please PM me or talk to me on here,

Please help

 

Losing 1GB+ a day of what? How do you know this is happening?

 

Uh, you're either downloading too much, something is downloading without you knowing or you're attached to a botnet. Either way, run a full computer scan and check with your ISP.

 

http://delphi.about.com/library/weekly/code/networktrafficmonitor.zip

Download this and start it up. See if it says you're downloading anything on any of your connection(s) when you're not doing any internet activity (that includes virus scan updates and stuff).

If there is significant internet activity, the space is being taken up by something which is being downloaded without your knowledge. That probably means you have a virus.

Scan your whole laptop using an up-to-date antivirus. If you don't have one, get AVG Free (Google it) or use an online virus scanner (Housecall).

 

If you download a lot clear your cache. I had something similar happen to me, I had a 300GB hdd, and I had limewire for about a year. All of a sudden I started losing space, and limewire was downloading literally everything it could find in games to my HDD. I had hundreds of games downloaded in the Shared folder. So now I disable all file sharing in LimeWire, if you have it make sure the same thing isn't happening to you. Run a virus scan. Reformat if all else fails.

 

yeah, this is most likely from your temp internet files etc. to fix this just do ctrl+rune then type %temp% just delete them all. There is usually over 1GB that you get cleaned up from your computer from this if you dont do it everyday.

 

You must have a program that updates everyday, and therefore requires more CPU usage. For example since it's a new laptop your installing all the updates etcc.. That will take a gig for sure.

 

He PM'ed me, presumably he means 1GB of space is becoming "used space" every day.

Limewire/BitTorrent or other filesharing is not the culprit unless you have ongoing downloads which you have forgotten about. Completed downloads that are shared mean that things will be uploaded, not downloaded.

Your internet cache should be by default limited to <=1GB of space. It's unlikely but possible that temporary files are the cause, but you should go and check anyway.

 

Stop downloading files?

You shouldn't be loosing 1GB a day!...

Daaaang.


~Uber