Computer overloaded, memory full, but why?

My computer has 225 GB of Ram. Normally, I only have three or four big games (City of X, Team Fortress 2, The Path, Etc.) on my computer at a time. Aside from that, there are about two Gigs of music, and that's it. My personal files are reasonable, my pictures sparse compared to most (I believe maybe 1,000 at the most)...

So why does my computer say I only have 14 Gigs left?

I know so little about computers, but it doesn't seem right that I have no idea why my computer's full. Is there some sort of program that will let me know unused programs on my compy? Additionally, are there ways to know what oversized files I may not have noticed?

Thanks for any help!

(If I do understand computers at all, this near-to-bursting capacity may be influencing the slow running speed of City of X.)

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My computer has 225 GB of Ram.

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Are you on Vista or XP?

EDIT: I don't know if it is possible for any PC to be able to hold 225 GB of RAM, so I assume you mean the space available on your Hard Drive?

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Vista. Should I submit some sort of new fangled diagnostic? CoH Helper or some such?

Yes, space available on my hard drive. Sorry.

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I've found that using System Restore on Vista uses far more HD space than it really should.

Go here and follow the directions on the page. I don't use much Hard Drive space myself, but I was able to free up almost 40GB of space by following the directions there.

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I suggest going Here and downloading TreeSize professional. You'll only have a 21 day trial before it stops working but that's plenty of time.

When you run it just make sure that your full hard drive is the one in the little window in the upper left and then click on File Search in the taskbar up top. It will scan your drive and tell you how much space is taken up by files in each of the main directories of the drive. And by clicking on each of those directories and see how much each sub directory takes up. It's a very small and very easy to use program.

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My computer has 225 GB of Ram. Normally, I only have three or four big games (City of X, Team Fortress 2, The Path, Etc.) on my computer at a time. Aside from that, there are about two Gigs of music, and that's it. My personal files are reasonable, my pictures sparse compared to most (I believe maybe 1,000 at the most)...

So why does my computer say I only have 14 Gigs left?

I know so little about computers, but it doesn't seem right that I have no idea why my computer's full. Is there some sort of program that will let me know unused programs on my compy? Additionally, are there ways to know what oversized files I may not have noticed?

Thanks for any help!

(If I do understand computers at all, this near-to-bursting capacity may be influencing the slow running speed of City of X.)

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Odds are, your computer came with a bunch of free software which you don't need or want. Manufacturers tend to load these things up with all kinds of stuff: their own portal software, trial versions of office, demo games, etc.

Try going to Start->Settings->Control Panel and choose add/remove programs. That will show you all the software installed on your system and the size of that program. If there are some large programs taking up several gigs (1 GB = 1000 MB) that you're absolutely certain you do not want (like ones that say "never" in the "Last Used On" column), you can uninstall them right there.

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My computer has 225 GB of Ram. Normally, I only have three or four big games (City of X, Team Fortress 2, The Path, Etc.) on my computer at a time. Aside from that, there are about two Gigs of music, and that's it. My personal files are reasonable, my pictures sparse compared to most (I believe maybe 1,000 at the most)...

So why does my computer say I only have 14 Gigs left?

I know so little about computers, but it doesn't seem right that I have no idea why my computer's full. Is there some sort of program that will let me know unused programs on my compy? Additionally, are there ways to know what oversized files I may not have noticed?

Thanks for any help!

(If I do understand computers at all, this near-to-bursting capacity may be influencing the slow running speed of City of X.)

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Odds are, your computer came with a bunch of free software which you don't need or want. Manufacturers tend to load these things up with all kinds of stuff: their own portal software, trial versions of office, demo games, etc.

Try going to Start->Settings->Control Panel and choose add/remove programs. That will show you all the software installed on your system and the size of that program. If there are some large programs taking up several gigs (1 GB = 1000 MB) that you're absolutely certain you do not want (like ones that say "never" in the "Last Used On" column), you can uninstall them right there.

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I do this very often, and there are less than ten programs on there now that are more than 1 Gig.

I'm trying out these other suggestions, however, and I will report back.

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Any chance that you've been deleting things, but they are still in the recycle bin?

Not sure if this is true on Vista but in XP, anything in the recycle bin still occupied disk space as it wasn't really deleted. Once it was emptied the disk space was emptied.

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I would try to do a disk clean up to see where you can restore some of that space.

Simply open "computer" and right-click on your C drive. go down to properties and click on the "disk cleanup" button. Let it run it's scan (it can be long don't worry) and look at the report it gives you.

You should be able to see things like "Temporary internet files", "recycle bin",...etc

You can check and uncheck the things you don't want to delete.

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