Ok, i would like to remove my previous restore points to free up disk space
but how do you find out how many restore points you currently have? i would
like to find this out before i decided to delete them or not just in case.
thanks
"solon fox" wrote:
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> On Jun 17, 9:50 pm, scottyjamison
> <scottyjami...@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote:
> > I am a relatively unexperienced windows vista user using windows home premium
> > at 32 bit on an acer aspire 6920 notebook. I noticed that occassionaly my
> > disk space would drop dramatically without me doing anything. 100s of mbs
> > would just disappear for no reason, so probably being stupid i decided to run
> > the disk fragmenter to try and fix the problem. BUT to my horror i was
> > shocked to find that the disk fragmenter began to eat up my hard disk space
> > big style. I went from 79.7GB to 72.5GB in just over an hour.
> >
> > What the hell happened and can it be fixed? can i get my disk space back? i
> > thought the disk fragmenter was supposed to help your computer not rob it..
> >
> > does anyone else have this problem and can someone please help me? im kinda
> > desparate, i cant believe it.
> >
> > P.S if someone is kind enough to give me advice and you keep it simple so i
> > can understand and follow it.
>
> How big is your hard drive? Maybe defrag didn't have enough space to
> work in?
>
> Vista has several recovery features that eat disk space; shadow
> copies, system recovery check points, updates and even indexing use up
> space. Many people have commented on Vista growing and consuming hard
> drive space. All of these features are designed to help you in a
> recovery situation and basically protect you from losing data. I think
> it is beneficial, even though it is alarming when you don't know what
> is going on.
>
> You can use 'Disk Cleanup' on your hard drive properties to help free
> up space. If you are satisfied with the latest changes to your system
> and comfortable with your system stability, then you can use the 'More
> Options' tab in Disk Cleanup to remove all but the most recent system
> restore point and shadow copies. This would free up quite a bit of
> space.
>
> Nonetheless, I think that a long term answer requires some
> consideration of offline backups, a plan for archiving the unused but
> important data you wish to keep, and as always, a larger primary hard
> drive.
>
> -solon fox
>