HD Space

gpc1 · Mar 29, 2010

Hi

I have a acer laptop running vista home premium.
I have 40 gb hd on c and 40 gb on D.
The C drive is full.....why? I dont have many programmes installed.
I Ran file tree and there is 11 gb in winsxs and 3gb in system32.#Thats Half the hard drive allocated to D!!!!

Anyway to reduce this.

Have had a look at the forums re stopping backups etc but still lost.

any further ideas how i can free up the space?

Thanks all

Greg

brummyfan · Mar 29, 2010

Hi,
Welcome to the forums, I hope this link will help you:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76227-system-restore-disk-space.html

Bare Foot Kid · Mar 29, 2010

gpc1 said:
Hi

I have a acer laptop running vista home premium.
I have 40 gb hd on c and 40 gb on D.
The C drive is full.....why? I dont have many programmes installed.
I Ran file tree and there is 11 gb in winsxs and 3gb in system32.#Thats Half the hard drive allocated to D!!!!

Anyway to reduce this.

Have had a look at the forums re stopping backups etc but still lost.

any further ideas how i can free up the space?

Thanks all

Greg

Hello gpc1, welcome to Vista Forums!

It would not be a good idea to delete anything (if it will even let you) from either of those locations, you may well disable the PC if you do so; unfortunately 40GB is not enough for Vista and many installed progs/apps.

Have a look at the tutorial at the link below (especially #39) in addition to the one that brummyfan listed above to see what you can clean up.

JM2C, I would not set the "System Restore" space used to less than 4GB as that may be a decision that comes back to haunt you later.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/81176-speed-up-performance-vista.html?ltr=S

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