Alan
Perform a disk cleanup. It's likely that most of this space is being used by
system restore and other temp files.
Go to Start and type: disk cleanup in the Search Box. In the Results,
click Disk Cleanup.
Select "Files from all users on this computer". Select the drive where Vista
is installed and click OK. The utility will calculate the space used.
In the results all of the temp files that are safe to delete will be
checked. Click the More Options Tab, in the System Restore section, click
the Cleanup Button. You will get a prompt asking "are you sure you want to
delete all but the latest restore point", click the Delete Button. Click OK.
Another prompt will again ask are you sure, click Delete Files.
This will delete all temp files and all but the latest system restore
points.
Check the used space on the drive again.
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Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User
"Alan" <Alan@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:13B09D5A-B55B-47F7-BBD9-59E450DC061B@xxxxxx
Quote:
>I have two 50gb drives on my laptop one is empty and one has 47gb showing.
>My
> documents has about 24gb there are a couple of gb on all the other files
> but
> there is over 20gb i cant find. Any ideas anyone
> Regards
> Alan