virtualized files - WTF?

I woke up this morning to find that my 50G partition's free space had shrunk
from 20G to 1G because Vista "virtualized" 18G of my stuff.
(c:/Users/me/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows) I had to use a *different OS*
to see why that folder was 20G - it's hidden and undetectable in Vista
itself.

Okay - Vista is trying to "protect" me. Again. Thanks.

Is the only way to get around this by running all my applications as
"administrator"?

mark

On Nov 8, 12:18 pm, "Mark Swope" <msw...@nowhere.com> wrote:
> I woke up this morning to find that my 50G partition's free space had shrunk
> from 20G to 1G because Vista "virtualized" 18G of my stuff.
> (c:/Users/me/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows) I had to use a *different OS*
> to see why that folder was 20G - it's hidden and undetectable in Vista
> itself.
>
> Okay - Vista is trying to "protect" me. Again. Thanks.
>
> Is the only way to get around this by running all my applications as
> "administrator"?
>
> mark

You could try not running applications. Guarantee no errors that way.

I have installed my apps into a non program files directory for quite
a while now, so I have not noticed this problem.