Garbage laptop Update:

Got home, plugged it in. Screen flipped on like it had been fine the whole time. Battery says 100%.

Unplug it - stays on. No problems at all.

A+ troll, laptop.

The winsxs folder is often the culprit and gets excluded from disk cleanups by default in Win7. There's a setting you can change (and a patch if you dont have the setting) to include it.

For background: The winsxs folder is used to hold updates for uninstall and system tracking. Deleting files manually can (and will!) wreck your day. Trouble is that it grows over time. Without the patch there was no way to safely reclaim that space (which I've seen exceed 40gb in some cases).

I'd also recommend using TreeSize to scope out disk usage and find out where the space is going.

Nice! Congrats!

Option A. If that doesnt work then...

Option C
Get distracted on the internet

Works every time.

Obv the only way to read that last sentence is in the Batman voice.

Alas. You should have told it that it can only have a nibble.

Of course not - never tell him the odds!