No and No. If you are just doing emails and surfing the net then the temp
files involved would not show a noticeable change in free space on your
drive. If you are doing a lot of content creation then you might use that
much space in a couple of hours. In any case, you would not be creating
system restore points. Those are created when you install new software.
The system will create one new one after a day or so, but that has nothing
to do with ordinary usage. You system will not be OK simply as the result
of deleting restore points. In fact you will lose the ability to solve some
kinds of problems by being able to go back to a time before the problem
occurred.
"scottyjamison" <scottyjamison@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:C3AE5724-947F-4E6E-9617-482C5B4A543B@xxxxxx
Quote:
> Thanks you the help but i have just one more question. Is it common to
> lose
> about 7GB of disk storage in little over 2 hours, and if i deleted
> previous
> restore points to clear up disk space would my computer be OK?
>
> Thanks
>
> "Steve Thackery" wrote:
> Quote:
>> I'm inclined to think this is a coincidence. I don't think there is any
>> way
>> defragging your disk can result in a loss of disk space (not permanent,
>> anyway).
>>
>> As the other contributors have said, Vista runs other activities which
>> consume disk space. I would take their advice re backups, Disk Cleanup,
>> etc.
>>
>> Two last things to say about defragging. Firstly, manually defragging is
>> not a sensible response to seeing your disk space go down. Defragging is
>> not intended to release disk space, nor consume it. It simply
>> reorganises
>> the data on the disk to make it faster to access. (In reality defragging
>> can release some space, but only a bit, and that isn't its real purpose).
>>
>> Secondly, you should never need to defrag manually anyway. Vista kicks
>> off
>> a defrag once a week automatically, and all the informed opinion is that
>> it
>> works fine if you leave it to its own devices).
>>
>> I would look elsewhere for what is using up your disk space. It is
>> almost
>> certainly Vista doing its normal business, though, and I honestly think
>> you
>> could safely ignore it.
>>
>> SteveT
>>
>>