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I have a Lenova laptop with Vista. In the my computer window it shows that
the hard drive is 6 gigs away from full on a 150 gig HD but when I select all
files and view properties it shows only 40 gigs worth of files. Is there a
glitch or patch anyone knows of because someone asked me about this with XP a
couple months back and I didn't have an answer. Now I'm curious. Thanks for
any help

Justin

Justin wrote:
> I have a Lenova laptop with Vista. In the my computer window it shows that
> the hard drive is 6 gigs away from full on a 150 gig HD but when I select all
> files and view properties it shows only 40 gigs worth of files. Is there a
> glitch or patch anyone knows of because someone asked me about this with XP a
> couple months back and I didn't have an answer. Now I'm curious. Thanks for
> any help
>


Why not just do a google search for file managers that display this kind
of info...lots of them as trialware, shareware or freebies. Compare the
results..... :-)


BTW, do you have "Show hidden, system" etc files toggled on for your
system.....if not the "select all files" process probably isn't counting
them in it's total.

If you don't have the option to show hidden files and folders selected, you
will only see files with normal attributes. That could explain a lot since
several large files (hibernation, virtual memory swapfile) are hidden and
could be several gigabytes each.

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"Justin" <> wrote in message
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>I have a Lenova laptop with Vista. In the my computer window it shows that
> the hard drive is 6 gigs away from full on a 150 gig HD but when I select
> all
> files and view properties it shows only 40 gigs worth of files. Is there a
> glitch or patch anyone knows of because someone asked me about this with
> XP a
> couple months back and I didn't have an answer. Now I'm curious. Thanks
> for
> any help
>
> Justin

Thank you, I did select to show hidden files. Any other ideas?

"Richard G. Harper" wrote:

> If you don't have the option to show hidden files and folders selected, you
> will only see files with normal attributes. That could explain a lot since
> several large files (hibernation, virtual memory swapfile) are hidden and
> could be several gigabytes each.
>
> --
> Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User]
> * NEW! Catch my blog ... http://msmvps.com/blogs/rgharper/
> * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups
> * The Website - http://rgharper.mvps.org/
>
>
> "Justin" <> wrote in message
> news:4358F954-9EC2-495F-B661-...
> >I have a Lenova laptop with Vista. In the my computer window it shows that
> > the hard drive is 6 gigs away from full on a 150 gig HD but when I select
> > all
> > files and view properties it shows only 40 gigs worth of files. Is there a
> > glitch or patch anyone knows of because someone asked me about this with
> > XP a
> > couple months back and I didn't have an answer. Now I'm curious. Thanks
> > for
> > any help
> >
> > Justin
>
>

Did you uncheck "Hide protected operating system files"?
I like a free program called Treesize Free

http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml

Install this and "run as administrator" it will show the size of all folders
and files.
however, it won't show the size of your pagefile or hybernate file. These
will show if you uncheck the above.
--
Paul


"Justin" wrote:

> Thank you, I did select to show hidden files. Any other ideas?
>
> "Richard G. Harper" wrote:
>
> > If you don't have the option to show hidden files and folders selected, you
> > will only see files with normal attributes. That could explain a lot since
> > several large files (hibernation, virtual memory swapfile) are hidden and
> > could be several gigabytes each.
> >
> > --
> > Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User]
> > * NEW! Catch my blog ... http://msmvps.com/blogs/rgharper/
> > * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups
> > * The Website - http://rgharper.mvps.org/
> >
> >
> > "Justin" <> wrote in message
> > news:4358F954-9EC2-495F-B661-...
> > >I have a Lenova laptop with Vista. In the my computer window it shows that
> > > the hard drive is 6 gigs away from full on a 150 gig HD but when I select
> > > all
> > > files and view properties it shows only 40 gigs worth of files. Is there a
> > > glitch or patch anyone knows of because someone asked me about this with
> > > XP a
> > > couple months back and I didn't have an answer. Now I'm curious. Thanks
> > > for
> > > any help
> > >
> > > Justin
> >
> >