Hi,
I am having a problem keeping my laptop's available space as high as I want it so I can install an old version of Adobe Photoshop. It was handed down to me from a family member, and I was more than happy to keep it alive even though it's an old Dell Inspiron 6400 that runs Windows Vista. The capacity is only about 66 GB, and I understand that a lot of important software for the operating system takes up a good chunk of it. I've tried uninstalling old apps that I don't use, keep running disc clean up to get all the temp junk off, and kept virtually all media (pictures, music, etc.) on a 1TB external drive, but it just doesn't seem to want to stay consistent. A few days ago, i had it up to 10% free space, and then today I noticed it went down to 0% free, and only a few hundred megabytes of space available even though I had not installed anything that was no bigger than 10-50 mb in size. I got it back to about 3GB free, and then later it went down to 2GB... so I'm suspecting there's something I can't see directly that clogging it up. I don't see any visible signs of malware, but I could be being fooled.
Any help or advice is appreciated.