Vista eats up drive space in realtime .. that is because of "system
recovery" is default turned on, it takes snapshots of the OS itself to save
the last working version. If you don't add new risky software or drivers
regulary I would tell you to just turn it off and clean the disks saved
snapshots - you will be amazed how much space it took.
Right click the "Computer" item in the startmenu and select "properties" - a
new window will open, telling you which edition you have and the like. On
the left side in this window you go to "advanced properties" -
"protection" - there you can deselect the disk being watched.
Of course vista will warn you with that annoying AC dialog.
Another thing is "shadow copies", but I think it's not present in the Home
Editions. This feature snapshots individual files every time a file is being
changed and offers to recover previous versions of a photo or document.
Hope this helps.
Olaf
"Cass" <stephen.cassidy3@xxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:uQ3IUQziIHA.2396@xxxxxx
Quote:
> Winston,
>
> Thank you for the response - my Windows folder shows just over 10GB -
> however when I look at my 'Users' folder it shows over 130GB which from my
> knowledge of what I have on the computer does not seem right. I think in
> total across all users accounts I have just over 50GB which is
> predominantly made up of my videos, music & photos which are all stored on
> the 'Public' folder.
>
> When I then look at my own user account in 'Users' and just highlight
> with the mouse it shows 2.17GB which I think is right. However when I
> right click it and go to properties it then shows my own user account
> having 46GB. I do not store videos, photos , music in there (all kept in
> my 'Public' folder) only documents.
>
> When I repeat this exercise with the other User accounts' (wife and
> children) I get a similar response as my own for two of the accounts I.e
> less than 1GB on highlighting with mouse and then when checking properties
> a much larger amount of GB's
>
> I am now assuming now this is why my HD is showing as practically full -
> but still not sure as to how to fix it?
>
> Thank you for your help
>
> Steve
>
>
> "...winston" <winstonmvp@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:8991C33C-1AFE-4AF1-A3E8-9EB15D8F70D3@xxxxxx Quote:
>> Login with an admin account(are all accounts admin accounts)?
>> Check each user profile for size(right click on a user profile and
>> determine the size of each)
>> Windows and Office 2007, and all software on this Vista Ultimate
>> machine(fully updated via Windows Update) consume 13GB of space.
>> Music(Windows Media) and Music(Ipod) and Pictures are on separate
>> partitions and shared among 3 pc's on the network.
>>
>> Additionally, while determing the size of each user's profile, do the
>> same on the Windows folder(how large is it?)
>>
>> --
>> ...winston
>> ms-mvp windows live mail
>>
>>
>> "Cass" <stephen.cassidy3@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:uV1PdjyiIHA.4868@xxxxxx Quote:
>>> I have a 250GB hard drive , vista home premium, just the usual software
>>> plus Office 2007. I have approx 50GB of video, music and pictures. I
>>> have had computer for less than 3 months and it seems that almost every
>>> day the hard drive gets fuller although I am not adding anything to it -
>>> I am now down to 17GB. I have five separate users (the family) accounts.
>>>
>>> can anyone assist please?
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>>
>>> Steve
>> >