Olaf , thank you for your response. I have done what you have suggested and
freed up 29GB! Thank you. I still think however there appears to be some
form of 'double counting' going on across my user accounts as described in
my earlier message.
Thank you
Steve
"Olaf" <bubu@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OT3%23Id3iIHA.3400@xxxxxx
Quote:
> 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
>>>> 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
>>>
>>