My disc free space is diminishing itself, me

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The user is experiencing a significant and unexplained decrease in free space on their local disk C, losing approximately 1GB daily without saving new files. Attempts to free up space by deleting documents and using an external USB hard drive have had inconsistent results. Defragmentation and disk cleanup tools have not resolved the issue. The user is concerned that this could be a virus, despite regularly scanning their drive with updated antivirus software. Recommendations include checking the drive for errors and performing a thorough virus scan to identify potential issues. The operating system in use is Windows Vista Premium.
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Hi! please help me!
I am having a real problem this days about my free space on my local disc C. Sometimes when i turn on my computer i find that the free space on my local disc has diminished itself without that i have saved anything on it before . This is very serious because there is at least 1GB that is decreased everyday. where is gone that space? does anyone know?

To solve it, i try to erase some of my documents. There also is another trick that i use but it doesn't work always: i connect another USB external harddisk and the lost space is sometimes restored itself.
I have tried to defragment it but it doesn't cure it at all. I thought about the disk cleanup but it doesn't work neither.
So is this a virus or what...?
In case you need to know, my OS is windows vista premium.
Thank you in advence
 
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