Problem with Programs, Deleting and Space

[FallenMemory]

Ok, I've noticed over the past couple months, that everytime I uninstall a program I never regain the space from the program I deleted, and sometimes I even lose space.

For instance yesterday I uninstalled maple (had to cause of that stupid avast thingy). Before uninstalling I had 15.2GB's free on my C Drive(where maple is located) and after uninstallation I had 15.1.

Can someone explain how I LOST space for UNINSTALLING a program?

[Bacon]

That seems odd. Sometimes when you uninstall programs it'll leave some files on your computer, but I've never heard of a case where you have less memory.

Run CCleaner (http://www.ccleaner.com/) and see if get a lot of space back.

[Katie]

How often can the CCleaner be ran?

[Bacon]

As often as you want.

[kleptophobia]

Very strange... Are you running Vista? As it keeps very large dump files sometimes. I'd recommend just trying Disk Clean-up on your "hard-drives".

Another possibility is someone (you or otherwise) is installing/downloading more files than you're deleting.