Hard drive capacity keeps dropping

i have a new laptop with 250GB HD, after built all all programs were
installed it left me with 192GB. i havent installed any new programs or music
but have noticed it has dropped down now to 174GB, this is very strange, any
suggestions please.

I FLY;509494 Wrote:
> i have a new laptop with 250GB HD, after built all all programs were
> installed it left me with 192GB. i havent installed any new programs or
> music
> but have noticed it has dropped down now to 174GB, this is very
> strange, any
> suggestions please.

Hi I FLY,

Here are some common things that can eat up your hard drive space to
check.

1. "System Restore" Points Maximum Disk Space Usage.
See:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76...isk-space.html

or you can disable System Restore.
See: http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66...m-restore.html


2. If you have a HP computer, then there will be a "HP Recovery
Manager" program that came with it that acts like System Restore. You
can uninstall it or adjust it's settings.

See: 'HP Notebook PCs*-* Uninstalling the Recovery Manager*'
(http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/f...name=c00810298)


3. The "Vista Temp files" may be building up and need to be cleaned.
You can use Disk Cleanup to delete these files.
See: http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76...k-cleanup.html


Hope this helps,
Shawn


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I FLY wrote:
> i have a new laptop with 250GB HD, after built all all programs were
> installed it left me with 192GB. i havent installed any new programs or music
> but have noticed it has dropped down now to 174GB, this is very strange, any
> suggestions please.

System Restore uses many of GBs of the drives space.

<http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/9f6d755a-74bb-4a7d-a625-d762dd8e79e51033.mspx>

I have System Restore switched off and use Acronis TrueImage (System
State backup) to backup to my second HDD. This allows me to take full
control over my system as I can save the System State when I want to and
to were I store the backup.

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So, what is the problem, exactly? Is the system sluggish or otherwise
misbehaving? Or is it simply that the HD shows less space available?

From your information, it would seem that there is plenty of available
space on the HD. You do not report anything unusual.

The system will use drive space for various things like e-mail storage,
temporary file space for the internet browser, disk caching, temporary
file space for file downloads and copy/paste operations. So, keep a eye
on it for a while to get a feel for normal operations. However, unless
other symptoms such as sluggishness or system freezes develop, I would
not get concerned.

Tom
MSMVP 1998-2007


"I FLY" <> wrote in message
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>i have a new laptop with 250GB HD, after built all all programs were
> installed it left me with 192GB. i havent installed any new programs or
> music
> but have noticed it has dropped down now to 174GB, this is very
> strange, any
> suggestions please.

I FLY wrote:

> i have a new laptop with 250GB HD, after built all all programs were
> installed it left me with 192GB. i havent installed any new programs or
> music but have noticed it has dropped down now to 174GB, this is very
> strange, any suggestions please.

Sure. Dump Vista and move to a real operating system, like Ubuntu.

Cheers.

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NoStop wrote:
> I FLY wrote:
>
>
>>i have a new laptop with 250GB HD, after built all all programs were
>>installed it left me with 192GB. i havent installed any new programs or
>>music but have noticed it has dropped down now to 174GB, this is very
>>strange, any suggestions please.
>
>
> Sure. Dump Vista and move to a real operating system, like Ubuntu.
>
> Cheers.
>
Give it up doris...you're not wanted nor needed in this Vista ng.
Nor is your toy os, linux/ubuntu worth a sh*t.
Frank

thanks Shawn, i never noticed the more options tab in disk clean up, i did a
clean up on restore points and left the most recent and HD went back up to
206GB. how often does it make restore points? should i leave it turned on or
do u recommend off.
thanks for the help
marco

"brink" wrote:

>
> I FLY;509494 Wrote:
> > i have a new laptop with 250GB HD, after built all all programs were
> > installed it left me with 192GB. i havent installed any new programs or
> > music
> > but have noticed it has dropped down now to 174GB, this is very
> > strange, any
> > suggestions please.
>
> Hi I FLY,
>
> Here are some common things that can eat up your hard drive space to
> check.
>
> 1. "System Restore" Points Maximum Disk Space Usage.
> See:
> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76...isk-space.html
>
> or you can disable System Restore.
> See: http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66...m-restore.html
>
>
> 2. If you have a HP computer, then there will be a "HP Recovery
> Manager" program that came with it that acts like System Restore. You
> can uninstall it or adjust it's settings.
>
> See: 'HP Notebook PCs - Uninstalling the Recovery Manager '
> (http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/f...name=c00810298)
>
>
> 3. The "Vista Temp files" may be building up and need to be cleaned.
> You can use Disk Cleanup to delete these files.
> See: http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76...k-cleanup.html
>
>
> Hope this helps,
> Shawn
>
>
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> brink
>
> *There are no dumb questions, just the people that do not ask them.*
> OM\")
> *Please post feedback to help others.*
>

I FLY;510052 Wrote:
> thanks Shawn, i never noticed the more options tab in disk clean up, i
> did a
> clean up on restore points and left the most recent and HD went back up
> to
> 206GB. how often does it make restore points? should i leave it turned
> on or
> do u recommend off.
> thanks for the help
> marco
> -----------------------
> "brink" wrote:
> Hi I FLY,
> >
> > Here are some common things that can eat up your hard drive space to
> > check.
> >
> > 1. "System Restore" Points Maximum Disk Space Usage.
> > See:
> > 'System Restore - disk space'
> (http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76...isk-space.html)
> >
> > or you can disable System Restore.
> > See: 'System Restore'
> (http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/66...m-restore.html)
> >
> >
> > 2. If you have a HP computer, then there will be a "HP Recovery
> > Manager" program that came with it that acts like System Restore. You
> > can uninstall it or adjust it's settings.
> >
> > See: 'HP Notebook PCs - Uninstalling the Recovery Manager '
> > ('http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/f...name=c00810298'
> (http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/f...name=c00810298))
> >
> >
> > 3. The "Vista Temp files" may be building up and need to be cleaned.
> > You can use Disk Cleanup to delete these files.
> > See: 'Disk Cleanup'
> (http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76...k-cleanup.html)
> >
> >
> > Hope this helps
>

Marco,

It really depends on if you keep good backups or not. System Restore
can be helpful in fixing some problems by restoring the computer back to
like it was on one of the restore points. If you have good backups,
then you can disable System Restore to save a junk of hard drive space.
You should have good backups anyway since System Restore point files
will most likely not be up to date with your current computer files. I
would say which is more important to you.

Hope this helps,
Shawn


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