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Old 05-21-2008   #4 (permalink)
PaulB


 
 

Re: hard drive shows full but select all files and properties don'

Did you uncheck "Hide protected operating system files"?
I like a free program called Treesize Free

http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml

Install this and "run as administrator" it will show the size of all folders
and files.
however, it won't show the size of your pagefile or hybernate file. These
will show if you uncheck the above.
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Paul


"Justin" wrote:
Quote:

> Thank you, I did select to show hidden files. Any other ideas?
>
> "Richard G. Harper" wrote:
>
Quote:

> > 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
> > news:4358F954-9EC2-495F-B661-1F35FB187075@xxxxxx
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
> >
> >
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