Quote Originally Posted by Jkarinen
well i just did a system restore and to my utter dissapoint ment kept all my files even though i wanted them all gone

so i deleted those but there is a hidden file somewhere on my computer and its taking up 20 of my 34 gigs and i want it gone
I'd go to Disk Cleanup>More Options> System Restore (clean up).

It sucks up a lot of space. You can't go back, of course, when you clear the system restore point.

After that, just defragment.