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Hey, guys! Sunday night, I ran a Standard, Non-Destructive Recovery. After my computer came back up, I fixed my desktop shortcut configuration and the basic stuff. I'm here to ask you guys a question about disc space. Saturday night, I had 42 GB of free space (assuming that the properties were correct) on my C: drive. After the recovery, my properties read as follows: 52.8 GB used, 17.4 GB free. I've defragged, used the compress tool in the properties dialog box and so forth. My Documents & Settings subfolder is a ridiculous 28.3 GB and my Program Files is at 3.01 GB. How do I know what I can dump and what has to stay without wrecking my PC? Is there an effective way to really compress things? My computer is running a lot slower than it did a few days a go. Thanks a lot, everyone!
System Restore by default uses 12% of your drive. You set it to 4-5% and still be able to do a system restore. What percent of your hard drive do you have the Recycle Bin set to? Select properties of the Recycle Bin to check the percentage.
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Yeah, sorry. That should have read "System Recovery" not "System Restore" in the title.
Recycle Bin maximum in 10%.
Would changing System Restore percentage from 12 to 4 delete all the restore points?
What else can I do?
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Go through your Documents and settings folder, check folder and file sizes. Maybe you will stumble on something.
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Morning edisonmstie and all,
You might want to give this site a good look. I consider it a 'gold mine' when it comes to the subject of 'System Restore'.
Check it out: System Restore Information
Good luck.
Thanks and regards,
Phil
" ... Nuff Said. Keep Smiling Because I'm Smiling Too."
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One of the biggest things that I'm seeing is the similarity in huge space-chewing files between my Owner and Default User Folders. If I kicked two folders out of my Default User folder (Desktop & Owner's Documents), I could save about 13.5 GB right there. Is that incredibly unadvisable or what? Having that 27 GB between the two is what is making my Documents & Settings folder 27.9 GB, I think.
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I would say 'incredibly unadvisable' is correct.
Deleting folders without any idea of what is inside, is not a good idea. You need to narrow it down to some files that you know are garbage.
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Got to http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/
and download Sequoiaview. It gives you a very comprehensive graphical view of your HD so you can see what is consuming so much space.www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/Graphics/ScreenSHSq1a.jpg
The bigger the block the bigger the file !
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Hello.
Please click Start and then Run.
In the Open box, type in %temp% and click O.K.
Delete what is inside the folder. You should do this for all user accounts. ( This is the temporary files folder for user accounts )
Then again click Start and then Run.
In the Open box, type in temp and click O.K.
Delete what is inside the folder. ( This is the general temporary files folder )
Then please check if you gained enough space.
Regards
suatcini
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By knocking the two large aforementioned files out of my Default User & System 32/config/systemprofile folders (after three paranoid tests to make sure that it wouldn't wreck anything), I'm up to 45 GB free. Thanks a lot, guys. Dang, you're smart! :-)
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