Quote Originally Posted by imagine View Post
you could try emsisoft free,i highly recomend, no spyware, just as a precaution, if infected there are some worms that duplicate themselves over and over untill your hard drive becomes full ,and your computer eventualy unworkable, im not saying thats what it is but worth trying,

cc cleaner will also wipe clear space too, it will empty your prefectch folder, but i find it doesnt empty it totaly, you can go,from start to my computer, then clic on drive c, look for windows folder, then prefetch folder , open it,inside delete all thats there, there is usualy a single folder at top of the list called ready boot, , i usualy leave that as im not sure it should be deleted but everything else you can delete, they are all temp files left behind, your comp will replace them online as you surf if you need any back, what you get back will be updated ones, it wont effect your comp, but does make for better efficiency,also anything else bad could be hiding there, i do this regular, especialy after playing any games, games equel clutter,

ps,,,, after emptying prefetch folder it all goes in your trash bin, empty that too after prefetch
The Emisoft looks good as it had found 12 bad trojans & malware etc, but I had left the deep scan going overnight, then it got to 92% done and the PC made a noise, crashed and re-started, so I had to start again and didn't even get to delete the bad stuff! Went to parents for Mothers day, so of course left it going, got home and i had crashed and restarted again!

So not re-started again and just hope that it doesnt do it again.

Can't do a defrag as you need 15% free space and I can't do that as I only have 2% due to the 81GB in Application data and 134GB in the copy of My Documents! The hard drive is 250GB and I have a 1.5TB external hard-drive.