August 18, 200619 yr I had a curious thing happened yesterday on the sim machine.Shortly after running the sim, I received a blue screen saying the system was shut down to keep from damaging the CPU. At the bottom of the screen was a statement about saving memory to disk. There was a counter running and it stopped at, I believe, disk 65 (?). That process used up most of my free hardrive space and I'm left with less than 200mb of free space.I ran all the clean-up tools but still no luck in restoring the free space. I looked in the defrag program and there is a lot of green, unmoveable, space.It appears something happened to the system which caused a program to write files to the hardrive. They are not visible in WinXP Explorer.Without reformatting drive C and reloading WinXP, any idea how to delete those files?Regards,Richard
August 18, 200619 yr Hello,Try : http://www.ccleaner.com/and see what the product says.Hope it helpsFYI I use this product each time I install a new version of my video card driver. Emile EBBR Z590 Aorus Elite, i9-11900K 3.5Ghz Nvidia RTX 5070, 32 GB Mem, SSD 3 Tera , 3 monitors Win11 Pro X64 LM P3D V6.1 Little Nav Map Hifisim Nvidia 591.44
August 18, 200619 yr Thats a good program to start looking indeed, but eh Emile arent you mistaking it for Drivercleaner to use with changing drivers?
August 18, 200619 yr Did some research at MS online. Problem solved.Apparently a hidden file was created called memory.dmp. This is a crash dump memory file. I enabled view hidden files in the Explorer Folder / Options. Did a search for *.dmp and found the file in the root directory. It was over 700mb.Deleted it. Then opened System Files / Advanced / Settings under Startup and Recovery. In Write Debugging information list, I changed to Small Memory Dump (64kb). Future dump files won't take up all my free harddive space.Richard
August 19, 200619 yr Hello,When I update my Video driver I use Drivercleaner in safe mode and afterwards I use CCleaner to remove useless files and correct some issues.It did help me a lot to avoid problems. Emile EBBR Z590 Aorus Elite, i9-11900K 3.5Ghz Nvidia RTX 5070, 32 GB Mem, SSD 3 Tera , 3 monitors Win11 Pro X64 LM P3D V6.1 Little Nav Map Hifisim Nvidia 591.44
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