Strange Question..

Why does everything have to turn into Linux against Windows argument? I run
Vista on 1 machine, XP on another, and Linux on a third and they are all
hooked up to my Server. I like them all for different reasons.. I come on
here to post a message asking for help and I get some good suggestions, but
then it turns into a use Linux or use Windows discussion, it's amazing
anyone can get any help in these forums. What ever happened to the days when
you could go to a forum and ask for help and actually get it?

"ray" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:14:01 -0800, Tonyo UK wrote:
>
>> Since you have already tried System Restore without much success, I
>> suggest you make sure all your data is (are?) backed up to an external
>> drive, and then wipe the hard drive and reinstall everything. I do this
>> once or twice a year and it usually gets rid of all the little bugs and
>> glitches that have mounted up. Takes some time, but it's good for the
>> soul.
>
> Pretty amazing what folks will put up with. My main computer has been
> running Gentoo Linux for about three years now - I've not reinstalled,
> just keep doing the rolling updates. It's as fast now as when originally
> installed and disk space is accounted for by data I've added.
>
>
>
>>
>> Good luck
>>
>> "Al D" wrote:
>>
>>> Here's a strange one.. I have on average 80-100 gigs of free space
>>> normally on my hard drive. Last night I noticed I was at 45 gigs free.
>>> I cleaned up some files etc and ended at 55 gigs free.. Still 30-40
>>> gigs off what is normally free. This morning I wake up and I have 14
>>> gigs free, the computer was on all night. I have checked everything I
>>> can think of to find the missing space. 70 gigs does not disapear in 2
>>> nights. The only changes made to the system was a Windows update on Nov
>>> 20th, for Windows update, that is around when this started. The only
>>> software that runs in the background is Diskeeper 2008 which has been
>>> running since Day 1 of installation of Vista, (last June). and Windows
>>> Home Server Connector software. Nothing else out of the norm is
>>> running.. Any ideas on what could be eating hard drive space? Thanks in
>>> advance..
>>>
>

Well here is a strange answer to my own question.. When I got down to 1 GB
free hard drive space, (Yes in 2 days I lost over 80 gigs of hard drive
space) I went to check my backups on my Windows Home Server and noticed my
wednesday night backup said 3 GB of shadow volume implementation folders.
Last nights said 81 Gigs.. I turned off System Restore, and bam got back 116
gigs of HD space.. Something must have gotten flugged (nice word) with the
restore, possibly creating a restore point non stop? Who knows.. I turned it
back on and created a manual restore point and it created a 3GB restore
point which was just about right.. So so far it is fine.. Never would have
expected that, but now that I look back, a restore point was created on
Thursday just before a windows update ran and since then I have been losing
hard drive space.. Thanks all for the help and suggestions..


"Bob Campbell" <> wrote in message
news:-...
> "Al D" <> wrote in message
> news:261A7BCE-63A0-4D77-8947-...
>> Why does everything have to turn into Linux against Windows argument?
>
> Because there are Loony Linux crybabies here who can't stand the fact that
> after 2 years, Vista has 20 times the users that Linux has after 20 years
> of being given away "for free".
>
> That is why. Ignore them.

Non Sequitur! wrote:
>> No, shadow copy is very excellent.
>
> its ****ed up!
>
>No, you're fukked up! And you have proly fukked up your install of Vista
by your advanced [sic] "tweaking"!...LOL!
Face it asshole, you are one stupid piece of ignorant **** and an
incompetent loser.

Al D wrote:
> Well here is a strange answer to my own question.. When I got down to 1
> GB free hard drive space, (Yes in 2 days I lost over 80 gigs of hard
> drive space) I went to check my backups on my Windows Home Server and
> noticed my wednesday night backup said 3 GB of shadow volume
> implementation folders. Last nights said 81 Gigs.. I turned off System
> Restore, and bam got back 116 gigs of HD space.. Something must have
> gotten flugged (nice word) with the restore, possibly creating a restore
> point non stop? Who knows.. I turned it back on and created a manual
> restore point and it created a 3GB restore point which was just about
> right.. So so far it is fine.. Never would have expected that, but now
> that I look back, a restore point was created on Thursday just before a
> windows update ran and since then I have been losing hard drive space..
> Thanks all for the help and suggestions..
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Why are you using System Restore if you're running WHS?

FBron, that is a good question... Guess I was lazy and never turned it off.
It's going off now and not going back on, especially since I went from 118
gigs last night before bed to 93 this morning.. Jeez..


"FBonServer2008X64" <> wrote in message
news:ggavfa$ls2$...
> Al D wrote:
>> Well here is a strange answer to my own question.. When I got down to 1
>> GB free hard drive space, (Yes in 2 days I lost over 80 gigs of hard
>> drive space) I went to check my backups on my Windows Home Server and
>> noticed my wednesday night backup said 3 GB of shadow volume
>> implementation folders. Last nights said 81 Gigs.. I turned off System
>> Restore, and bam got back 116 gigs of HD space.. Something must have
>> gotten flugged (nice word) with the restore, possibly creating a restore
>> point non stop? Who knows.. I turned it back on and created a manual
>> restore point and it created a 3GB restore point which was just about
>> right.. So so far it is fine.. Never would have expected that, but now
>> that I look back, a restore point was created on Thursday just before a
>> windows update ran and since then I have been losing hard drive space..
>> Thanks all for the help and suggestions..
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Why are you using System Restore if you're running WHS?

On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:51:51 -0500, Bob Campbell wrote:

> "ray" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Pretty amazing what folks will put up with. My main computer has been
>> running Gentoo Linux
>
> I'm sure the irony of these 2 statements escapes you.

Absolutely.

On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:00:03 -0500, Al D wrote:

> Why does everything have to turn into Linux against Windows argument? I
> run Vista on 1 machine, XP on another, and Linux on a third and they are
> all hooked up to my Server. I like them all for different reasons.. I
> come on here to post a message asking for help and I get some good
> suggestions, but then it turns into a use Linux or use Windows
> discussion, it's amazing anyone can get any help in these forums. What
> ever happened to the days when you could go to a forum and ask for help
> and actually get it?

I did not intend it thus. I apologize for taking up the bandwidth. It's
just that every time I leave this NG, I'm shaking my head in disbelief
that folks will actually, willingly, put up with such nonsense. The
suggestion that the solution is to reinstall every six months was more
than I could bear.


>
> "ray" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:14:01 -0800, Tonyo UK wrote:
>>
>>> Since you have already tried System Restore without much success, I
>>> suggest you make sure all your data is (are?) backed up to an external
>>> drive, and then wipe the hard drive and reinstall everything. I do
>>> this once or twice a year and it usually gets rid of all the little
>>> bugs and glitches that have mounted up. Takes some time, but it's good
>>> for the soul.
>>
>> Pretty amazing what folks will put up with. My main computer has been
>> running Gentoo Linux for about three years now - I've not reinstalled,
>> just keep doing the rolling updates. It's as fast now as when
>> originally installed and disk space is accounted for by data I've
>> added.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Good luck
>>>
>>> "Al D" wrote:
>>>
>>>> Here's a strange one.. I have on average 80-100 gigs of free space
>>>> normally on my hard drive. Last night I noticed I was at 45 gigs
>>>> free. I cleaned up some files etc and ended at 55 gigs free.. Still
>>>> 30-40 gigs off what is normally free. This morning I wake up and I
>>>> have 14 gigs free, the computer was on all night. I have checked
>>>> everything I can think of to find the missing space. 70 gigs does not
>>>> disapear in 2 nights. The only changes made to the system was a
>>>> Windows update on Nov 20th, for Windows update, that is around when
>>>> this started. The only software that runs in the background is
>>>> Diskeeper 2008 which has been running since Day 1 of installation of
>>>> Vista, (last June). and Windows Home Server Connector software.
>>>> Nothing else out of the norm is running.. Any ideas on what could be
>>>> eating hard drive space? Thanks in advance..
>>>>
>>>>

Thanks Ray for the reply.. Your response here has made me feel that there
are people out there that are not so set in their ways that they must push
their way of life on everyone.. Consider your response to me a non factor..



"ray" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:00:03 -0500, Al D wrote:
>
>> Why does everything have to turn into Linux against Windows argument? I
>> run Vista on 1 machine, XP on another, and Linux on a third and they are
>> all hooked up to my Server. I like them all for different reasons.. I
>> come on here to post a message asking for help and I get some good
>> suggestions, but then it turns into a use Linux or use Windows
>> discussion, it's amazing anyone can get any help in these forums. What
>> ever happened to the days when you could go to a forum and ask for help
>> and actually get it?
>
> I did not intend it thus. I apologize for taking up the bandwidth. It's
> just that every time I leave this NG, I'm shaking my head in disbelief
> that folks will actually, willingly, put up with such nonsense. The
> suggestion that the solution is to reinstall every six months was more
> than I could bear.
>
>
>>
>> "ray" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:14:01 -0800, Tonyo UK wrote:
>>>
>>>> Since you have already tried System Restore without much success, I
>>>> suggest you make sure all your data is (are?) backed up to an external
>>>> drive, and then wipe the hard drive and reinstall everything. I do
>>>> this once or twice a year and it usually gets rid of all the little
>>>> bugs and glitches that have mounted up. Takes some time, but it's good
>>>> for the soul.
>>>
>>> Pretty amazing what folks will put up with. My main computer has been
>>> running Gentoo Linux for about three years now - I've not reinstalled,
>>> just keep doing the rolling updates. It's as fast now as when
>>> originally installed and disk space is accounted for by data I've
>>> added.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Good luck
>>>>
>>>> "Al D" wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Here's a strange one.. I have on average 80-100 gigs of free space
>>>>> normally on my hard drive. Last night I noticed I was at 45 gigs
>>>>> free. I cleaned up some files etc and ended at 55 gigs free.. Still
>>>>> 30-40 gigs off what is normally free. This morning I wake up and I
>>>>> have 14 gigs free, the computer was on all night. I have checked
>>>>> everything I can think of to find the missing space. 70 gigs does not
>>>>> disapear in 2 nights. The only changes made to the system was a
>>>>> Windows update on Nov 20th, for Windows update, that is around when
>>>>> this started. The only software that runs in the background is
>>>>> Diskeeper 2008 which has been running since Day 1 of installation of
>>>>> Vista, (last June). and Windows Home Server Connector software.
>>>>> Nothing else out of the norm is running.. Any ideas on what could be
>>>>> eating hard drive space? Thanks in advance..
>>>>>
>>>>>
>

On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:01:25 -0500, Al D wrote:

> Thanks Ray for the reply.. Your response here has made me feel that
> there are people out there that are not so set in their ways that they
> must push their way of life on everyone.. Consider your response to me a
> non factor..

I believe the point to be made is that any OS that needs to be reinstalled
every six months has something dreadfully wrong with it. A properly
running OS should not need periodic re-installation.


>
>
> "ray" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:00:03 -0500, Al D wrote:
>>
>>> Why does everything have to turn into Linux against Windows argument?
>>> I run Vista on 1 machine, XP on another, and Linux on a third and they
>>> are all hooked up to my Server. I like them all for different
>>> reasons.. I come on here to post a message asking for help and I get
>>> some good suggestions, but then it turns into a use Linux or use
>>> Windows discussion, it's amazing anyone can get any help in these
>>> forums. What ever happened to the days when you could go to a forum
>>> and ask for help and actually get it?
>>
>> I did not intend it thus. I apologize for taking up the bandwidth. It's
>> just that every time I leave this NG, I'm shaking my head in disbelief
>> that folks will actually, willingly, put up with such nonsense. The
>> suggestion that the solution is to reinstall every six months was more
>> than I could bear.
>>
>>
>>
>>> "ray" <> wrote in message
>>> news:...
>>>> On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:14:01 -0800, Tonyo UK wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Since you have already tried System Restore without much success, I
>>>>> suggest you make sure all your data is (are?) backed up to an
>>>>> external drive, and then wipe the hard drive and reinstall
>>>>> everything. I do this once or twice a year and it usually gets rid
>>>>> of all the little bugs and glitches that have mounted up. Takes some
>>>>> time, but it's good for the soul.
>>>>
>>>> Pretty amazing what folks will put up with. My main computer has been
>>>> running Gentoo Linux for about three years now - I've not
>>>> reinstalled, just keep doing the rolling updates. It's as fast now as
>>>> when originally installed and disk space is accounted for by data
>>>> I've added.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Good luck
>>>>>
>>>>> "Al D" wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Here's a strange one.. I have on average 80-100 gigs of free space
>>>>>> normally on my hard drive. Last night I noticed I was at 45 gigs
>>>>>> free. I cleaned up some files etc and ended at 55 gigs free..
>>>>>> Still 30-40 gigs off what is normally free. This morning I wake up
>>>>>> and I have 14 gigs free, the computer was on all night. I have
>>>>>> checked everything I can think of to find the missing space. 70
>>>>>> gigs does not disapear in 2 nights. The only changes made to the
>>>>>> system was a Windows update on Nov 20th, for Windows update, that
>>>>>> is around when this started. The only software that runs in the
>>>>>> background is Diskeeper 2008 which has been running since Day 1 of
>>>>>> installation of Vista, (last June). and Windows Home Server
>>>>>> Connector software. Nothing else out of the norm is running.. Any
>>>>>> ideas on what could be eating hard drive space? Thanks in advance..
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>

Back Vista version wrote:
> the last time I kicked your arse I lost my boot, and you liked that fact!
>
> next time Ill kick your are Ill wear fishing boots that are up to the
> hip.. and secure them with rope
>
> bastard!
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You're delusional capin' crunch!...LOL!
Loser!