2,5Gb + 3,5 Gb + 2Gb = 11Gb?

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If i check the properties of all my maps on the C-drive i have about 2,5Gb (program files) + 3,5 Gb(windows -windows xp-laptop-) + 2Gb(my documents) and a few crumbles , but the properties of the C-drive tell me the 11 Gb are occipied. (the partitioned second part has about the same thing)
What happens with the almost 3 Gb?

(I cleaned a lot of temporary files, deleted programs i never use, and keep my documents to a strict minimun, what else can i do to have some space?)

Virtual memory and pagefile'd be my guess.

The 3 GB is 'lost' to several uses.

Besides the page/swap/virtual memory files, all of it has to due with how the File System stores your data.

The file system has 'overhead' that is used to store the name of you file, and the locations on the hard disk that your file occupies.

And due to praticallity, the file system is unable to make 100% use of the space not allocated to file system management.

The exact reasons differ between file systems, and configurations of file systems.

disk cleanup, defrag and scandisk??? that will also help in getting the free space back. sounds to me that fragmented files and dead cells of the deleted items is holding the free space (like saving a seat on a bus for a ghost)

also bad sectors and registry files can do this too (make space hogs) its best to get a scanning program to fix the registry.

also have you checked for viruses,trojans,adaware,spyware ?? they can also secretly eat up free space.

/me thinks i should become a coputer tech support agentfor verizon or aol. diseased??? need any help at aol?????

kidding

yes i checked these things and the antivirus seemed to work well, it is a few months ago i'v defragment, but i first wanted to clean up all my documents first (got an external hard drive, but it's a lot of work) and so i came to notice that there were several Gb not mentioned in the maps and i wondered why, it seems a lot (so many ghosts ?)

[also bad sectors and registry files can do this too (make space hogs) its best to get a scanning program to fix the registry.]
i do not know what these are (space hogs, a scanning program to fix the registry),
i once had to erase a few registry entries (some kind of nmbb or something and there was no other way than manualy removing it, it worked out well, i carefully followed the instructions, but a friend of mine told me i shouldn't do that kind of things)

aren't there any good websites about how to maintain your computer healthy ?

Hehehe... I haven't worked for AOL in almost 8 years. In fact, I thank my celestial wonderturtle on a daily basis, that I no longer work there.

ahh ok, its ashame these days that they outsourced. 8 years ago i can remember calling and getting a human right away that ACTUALLY KNOWS ABOUT COMPUTERS.

The maths adding up is probably rounded up.

for almost 3 Gb??
and why wasn't it a few years ago? (he's already got a certain age, 6 or 7 i think, a present from my grandfather)

i've been thinking it's programs and things that installed somewhere without appearing in the contral-panel-software-list but how can i know and how can i clean up things which i don't know what they are? do there excist lists of things you can safely throw away or something?

i know i could consider starting again from zero but i really don't have the time for that right now
i'm studying and i need my computer every day.