Computer Problems? Computing.Net has over 1,000,000 posts about all things technology related! Over 90% answered within 24 hours! Click here to start participating now! Also, be sure to check out the New User Guide.
How to limit HDD space per user
Name: Voodoo Date: January 22, 2009 at 08:36:19 Pacific OS: Windows XP Pro CPU/Ram: 2.8GHz/2GB Product: Dell / 3100 Subcategory: General
Comment:
Hello, I have a Windows XP box at home that my friends and I like to remote to from work. How do I limit HDD space per user? Thanks in advance for any help!
Name: kptech Date: January 22, 2009 at 09:13:35 Pacific
Reply:
Voodoo,
What you are referring to is called a disk quota. You can set default limits that apply to all users or if you need to set different limits for each user, you can do this too.
Summary: Hi There In Windows Task Manager, I wonder how to limit the percentage of the cpu occupied by running background job? it seems a background job always occupies most of the CPU when I checked the windo...
Summary: If the HD space really is "unallocated" then you have to partition this space first. I think you can do this from XP, but I'm not sure how. I've always used FDisk from a DOS prompt. You can boot up wi...
0 
