If you don't have the option to show hidden files and folders selected, you
will only see files with normal attributes. That could explain a lot since
several large files (hibernation, virtual memory swapfile) are hidden and
could be several gigabytes each.
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"Justin" <Justin@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:
>I have a Lenova laptop with Vista. In the my computer window it shows that
> the hard drive is 6 gigs away from full on a 150 gig HD but when I select
> all
> files and view properties it shows only 40 gigs worth of files. Is there a
> glitch or patch anyone knows of because someone asked me about this with
> XP a
> couple months back and I didn't have an answer. Now I'm curious. Thanks
> for
> any help
>
> Justin