I suddenly have nearly 1GB free on my harddisk

[Paws]

I have chronic space problems on my harddisk's system partition (using Windows XP here). Usually around only 200-300MB free. Now I recently deinstalled Java and I ran a disk cleaner which made a few MB free. Sometimes restarting Firefox frees up about 100MB as well.

I now was at around 450MB last time I looked at the bottom of the Explorer window. I went on gaming with MAME for the last two hours and just looked at the free space again. I suddenly have 1.1GB free.

I checked the trashcan to make sure I didn't delete anything by mistake.

How come I suddenly had 600MB freed up?

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Your boyfriend secretly deleted your porn collection when you were in the bathroom.

[Scealle]

Sometime the computer can miscalculate the information. When I check my PC it says 20 GB then when I restart it says 21 GB. Its pretty confusing sometimes. Or when you open a software they can eat up a certain amount of space on your hardrive. When I open photoshop and some editing software it usually would eat up 200-300 mb depending on my project.

[Paws]

I didn't use Photoshop today and I don't have a boyfriend ;_;

I'm scared I might have a trojan though, despite running and checking with all possible security programs.

[csb999]

just a guess . Some programs , particularly games , can have huge basically empty temp files that they allocate and do not properly delete afterwards . Knew someone who always had a almost empty HD that became too full - ran a small disk use prog on it and found a temp file buried somewhere in the Windows directory that was huge , his nephew played a game on it .

[maxpowr9]

Your computer may be stupidly backing up itself to your hard drive.

[swerve]

I TRIED to get into the game "World of Warcraft" -- and it AMAZED me HOW MUCH SPACE it took up...

So -- yeah, if you're a gamer -- I can TOTALLY understand you SPACE issues...

GLAD to hear that it mysteriously worked in YOUR favor!!!

[Jeffs0418]

I suddenly have 1.1GB free.

If you only have 1.1GB free on your HD in this day and age then you need another (larger) hard drive.
I have 20GB free on my 120GB SSD system drive.