I've got a little machine here running winXP and with a little 6Gig hard drive in it. There's very little software in it at all - virtually only one thing, Powerword. When I go through all the directories and check their size and add up all the figures I get a total of 3gigabytes used. But checking drive C: details it reports that 5 gigabytes have been used and there's only 1gig (barely) of free space. I've got AVG on it and Comodo firewall. Where could the missing 2 gigs be? regards, ab :)

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Possibly the space is being taken up by system restore, the easiest way to see is to turn restore off and reboot then check the available space again. You could also try turning on the "show hidden files" option in folder options and seeing if any large files that were previously hidden appear.


On Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at 4:16 am, arthur brogard wrote:
>
> I've got a little machine here running winXP and with a little 6Gig hard drive in
>it. There's very little software in it at all - virtually only one thing, Powerword.
>
>When I go through all the directories and check their size and add up all the figures
>I get a total of 3gigabytes used.
>
>But checking drive C: details it reports that 5 gigabytes have been used and there's
>only 1gig (barely) of free space.
>
>I've got AVG on it and Comodo firewall.
>
>Where could the missing 2 gigs be?
>
>regards,
>
>ab :)

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Hi arthur brogard 

Space will be taken up with virtual memory and if you use Hibernation there will 
be space allocated for a memory image

There are several softwares that show hard drive space utilisations - typically Sequoia 
View -

http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/ 

David







On Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at 4:16 am, arthur brogard wrote:

>

> I've got a little machine here running winXP and with a little 6Gig hard drive 
in 

>it. There's very little software in it at all - virtually only one thing, Powerword.

>

>When I go through all the directories and check their size and add up all the figures 

>I get a total of 3gigabytes used.

>

>But checking drive C: details it reports that 5 gigabytes have been used and there's 

>only 1gig (barely) of free space.

>

>I've got AVG on it and Comodo firewall.

>

>Where could the missing 2 gigs be?

>

>regards,

>

>ab :)
 

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I'll try the restore thing. Surely hidden files/system files wouldn't make a difference to the usage figure shown when you right click on a directory (folder) and choose 'details'?


On Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at 5:16 am, Kevinh wrote:
>Possibly the space is being taken up by system restore, the easiest way to see is
>to turn restore off and reboot then check the available space again. You could also
>try turning on the "show hidden files" option in folder options and seeing if any
>large files that were previously hidden appear.
>
>

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All solved now, guys, thanks for the input. I disabled system restore and hibernation and re-enabled system restore with a limited space allocation and now there's 4gig used and 2gig available. Good little learning session for me and that sequoia thing is totally good....


On Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at 10:16 am, David wrote:
>Hi arthur brogard
>
>Space will be taken up with virtual memory and if you use Hibernation there will
>be space allocated for a memory image
>
>There are several softwares that show hard drive space utilisations - typically Sequoia
>View -
>
>http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/
>
>David
>
>
>

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You can also reduce the size of your Recycle Bin (right click on it and select Properties). This will only help if you delete a lot of files and don't empty the recycle bin.

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You should probably put in a new Hard Drive, The New ones are much faster, and You won't be fighting out of Space errors.

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Thanks for the feedback


On Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at 3:29 pm, arthur brogard wrote:
>
> All solved now, guys, thanks for the input. I disabled system restore and hibernation
>and re-enabled system restore with a limited space allocation and now there's 4gig
>used and 2gig available.
>
> Good little learning session for me and that sequoia thing is totally good....
>
>
>
>

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