something hogging disk space

I run a VMware setup with Vista (64-bit) Home Premium as the Host system,
and Vista (32-bit) Home Premium as the guest system. Although I have only
16 GB devoted to the guest system, at one point recently I was only using
not quite half of that space. Now, when I click on Computer, I am finding
that there is literally no free space. If I delete some software, this
freed up space gets consumed also.

How do I go about finding what it is that is clogging this allocated space?
The only changes that I have made to the guest system is the addition of
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware software.

Gordon Biggar
Houston, Texas

Have you tried using Disk Cleanup?

"Gordon Biggar" <> wrote in message
news:3D6B799A-844A-4A5E-8040-...
> I run a VMware setup with Vista (64-bit) Home Premium as the Host system,
> and Vista (32-bit) Home Premium as the guest system. Although I have only
> 16 GB devoted to the guest system, at one point recently I was only using
> not quite half of that space. Now, when I click on Computer, I am finding
> that there is literally no free space. If I delete some software, this
> freed up space gets consumed also.
>
> How do I go about finding what it is that is clogging this allocated
> space? The only changes that I have made to the guest system is the
> addition of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware software.
>
> Gordon Biggar
> Houston, Texas

"Gordon Biggar" <> wrote in message
news:3D6B799A-844A-4A5E-8040-...
> I run a VMware setup with Vista (64-bit) Home Premium as the Host system,
> and Vista (32-bit) Home Premium as the guest system. Although I have only
> 16 GB devoted to the guest system, at one point recently I was only using
> not quite half of that space. Now, when I click on Computer, I am finding
> that there is literally no free space. If I delete some software, this
> freed up space gets consumed also.
>
> How do I go about finding what it is that is clogging this allocated
> space? The only changes that I have made to the guest system is the
> addition of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware software.
>
> Gordon Biggar
> Houston, Texas

Sounds like System Restore is eating up space.
--


"Don't pick a fight with an old man.
If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you."

Yes, I have gone that route to free up space, but it almost immediately
disappears. I have even deleted software, but that space disappears also.
Very frustrating.

I ran msconfig, and there are only five programs running at startup; and
under Services, all of the programs that are running are from Microsoft.

GB


"Badger" <> wrote in message
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> Have you tried using Disk Cleanup?
>
> "Gordon Biggar" <> wrote in message
> news:3D6B799A-844A-4A5E-8040-...
>> I run a VMware setup with Vista (64-bit) Home Premium as the Host system,
>> and Vista (32-bit) Home Premium as the guest system. Although I have
>> only 16 GB devoted to the guest system, at one point recently I was only
>> using not quite half of that space. Now, when I click on Computer, I am
>> finding that there is literally no free space. If I delete some
>> software, this freed up space gets consumed also.
>>
>> How do I go about finding what it is that is clogging this allocated
>> space? The only changes that I have made to the guest system is the
>> addition of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware software.
>>
>> Gordon Biggar
>> Houston, Texas
>

Disk Cleaner gives one the ability to delete all but the last Restore Point,
but this has not seemed to make any difference.

GB


"Michael" <> wrote in message
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>
> "Gordon Biggar" <> wrote in message
> news:3D6B799A-844A-4A5E-8040-...
>> I run a VMware setup with Vista (64-bit) Home Premium as the Host system,
>> and Vista (32-bit) Home Premium as the guest system. Although I have
>> only 16 GB devoted to the guest system, at one point recently I was only
>> using not quite half of that space. Now, when I click on Computer, I am
>> finding that there is literally no free space. If I delete some
>> software, this freed up space gets consumed also.
>>
>> How do I go about finding what it is that is clogging this allocated
>> space? The only changes that I have made to the guest system is the
>> addition of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware software.
>>
>> Gordon Biggar
>> Houston, Texas
>
> Sounds like System Restore is eating up space.
> --
>
>
> "Don't pick a fight with an old man.
> If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you."
>
>

Gordon Biggar wrote:
> I run a VMware setup with Vista (64-bit) Home Premium as the Host
> system, and Vista (32-bit) Home Premium as the guest system. Although I
> have only 16 GB devoted to the guest system, at one
> point recently I was only using not quite half of that space. Now,
> when I click on Computer, I am finding that there is literally no
> free space. If I delete some software, this freed up space gets
> consumed also.
> How do I go about finding what it is that is clogging this
> allocated space? The only changes that I have made to the guest
> system is the addition of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware software.

SequoiaView and/or JDiskReport can show you where the space is being used.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

You might try the following:

Right click CMD.EXE and select Run as Administrator,
Type - VSSADMIN LIST SHADOWSTORAGE,
This will tell you how much space is being used by System Restore,
It can take up to 15% of all the free space.
You can reduce the size by the following:
Type - VSSADMIN RESIZE SHADOWSTORAGE /FOR=C: /ON=C: /MAXSIZE=2GB
You will get a message saying it was approved.
Then Reboot.
This will give you about a weeks worth of restore points.
You can do a MAXSIZE up to 10GB if you need more restore points.

"Gordon Biggar" <> wrote in message
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> Yes, I have gone that route to free up space, but it almost immediately
> disappears. I have even deleted software, but that space disappears also.
> Very frustrating.
>
> I ran msconfig, and there are only five programs running at startup; and
> under Services, all of the programs that are running are from Microsoft.
>
> GB