Vista Ultimate consuming a lot of space

Hello,

I am running Windows Vista Ultimate x64 for a while now and a few days ago I
started receiving this "C: running out of space" message. I then decided to
repartition my drive giving vista extra 5 GB. The repartition operation
completed successfully last nite and as soon as it booted up it only had
3.6GB of free disk space and now it has only 23 MB.

What is going on? I have noticed that c:\windows directory jumped from 23 to
27 GB since this morning and I didn't download anything in the last 2 weeks
nor did any signifcant operation whitin windows. Both user's and windows'
temp dirs are empty and I am running it as I normally do (just NOD32, 3
messengers and DUMeter). My total partition size for Vist has 36GB now and
my downloads/documents/music/pictures folder are located on another
partition. Even all the programs I have installed, I put them on an extra
partition that I call P: so the C: drive keeps only the bundled dlls and
Vista itself.

What could I do to check if it's a virus doing this or find the cause? I
just ran a virus scan using NOD32 and it didn't find anything. I have
already applied all the updates from MS site and I don't have system restore
feature turned on. My computer configuration is described below.

Please help.

Computer specs:
Intel Core2Duo 1.7 gh
Intel Motherboard 946gzis
Shared video memory 64mb
Phisical RAM memory 2gb
320 Western Digital HD SATA
Extra 40GB IDE drive together with LG cd burner.
ENLTV tv-in card
Multi-card reader installed
Extra C-Media Sound Card Value installed.
USB HP Scanner
USB HP Printer
USB Go Tec webcam

Running on startup:
PAC for the tv card
Skype, MSN, YAM, AIM, MySpace IM
NOD32
DUMeter
BlueSoleil BtTray.exe (bluetooth device)

"TMA" <> wrote in news:OgBFQudYIHA.4332
@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl:

> I have
> already applied all the updates from MS


These updates could play a role. Also, how much RAM do you have? It is
possible you have a paging file going out of control if you have limited
RAM.

"TMA" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am running Windows Vista Ultimate x64 for a while now and a few days ago I
> started receiving this "C: running out of space" message. I then decided to
> repartition my drive giving vista extra 5 GB. The repartition operation
> completed successfully last nite and as soon as it booted up it only had
> 3.6GB of free disk space and now it has only 23 MB.
>
> What is going on? I have noticed that c:\windows directory jumped from 23 to
> 27 GB since this morning and I didn't download anything in the last 2 weeks
> nor did any signifcant operation whitin windows. Both user's and windows'
> temp dirs are empty and I am running it as I normally do (just NOD32, 3
> messengers and DUMeter). My total partition size for Vist has 36GB now and
> my downloads/documents/music/pictures folder are located on another
> partition. Even all the programs I have installed, I put them on an extra
> partition that I call P: so the C: drive keeps only the bundled dlls and
> Vista itself.
>
> What could I do to check if it's a virus doing this or find the cause? I
> just ran a virus scan using NOD32 and it didn't find anything. I have
> already applied all the updates from MS site and I don't have system restore
> feature turned on. My computer configuration is described below.
>
> Please help.
>
> Computer specs:
> Intel Core2Duo 1.7 gh
> Intel Motherboard 946gzis
> Shared video memory 64mb
> Phisical RAM memory 2gb
> 320 Western Digital HD SATA
> Extra 40GB IDE drive together with LG cd burner.
> ENLTV tv-in card
> Multi-card reader installed
> Extra C-Media Sound Card Value installed.
> USB HP Scanner
> USB HP Printer
> USB Go Tec webcam
>
> Running on startup:
> PAC for the tv card
> Skype, MSN, YAM, AIM, MySpace IM
> NOD32
> DUMeter
> BlueSoleil BtTray.exe (bluetooth device)
>
>


TMA,

It's possible your previous System Restore points are taking up much of
this disk space. You can always delete all prior restore points to free up
disk space. Also, if you have low RAM and/or your paging file does not have
enough space alloted your machine could be writing everything to the
harddrive instead.

Have a nice day.

C.B.

Hello,

As described in the previous message I have 2 gb of ram (which I think is
pretty reasonable) and both my pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys files are each
2 gb. Again, I ran out of disk space last nite and repartitioned it so it
would be 5 gb bigger and TODAY it took all this extra space that I just gave
it and now I only have 17mb available.

"CB" <> wrote in message
news:21133579-CFC6-40AC-960E-...
>
>
> "TMA" wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am running Windows Vista Ultimate x64 for a while now and a few days
>> ago I
>> started receiving this "C: running out of space" message. I then decided
>> to
>> repartition my drive giving vista extra 5 GB. The repartition operation
>> completed successfully last nite and as soon as it booted up it only had
>> 3.6GB of free disk space and now it has only 23 MB.
>>
>> What is going on? I have noticed that c:\windows directory jumped from 23
>> to
>> 27 GB since this morning and I didn't download anything in the last 2
>> weeks
>> nor did any signifcant operation whitin windows. Both user's and windows'
>> temp dirs are empty and I am running it as I normally do (just NOD32, 3
>> messengers and DUMeter). My total partition size for Vist has 36GB now
>> and
>> my downloads/documents/music/pictures folder are located on another
>> partition. Even all the programs I have installed, I put them on an extra
>> partition that I call P: so the C: drive keeps only the bundled dlls and
>> Vista itself.
>>
>> What could I do to check if it's a virus doing this or find the cause? I
>> just ran a virus scan using NOD32 and it didn't find anything. I have
>> already applied all the updates from MS site and I don't have system
>> restore
>> feature turned on. My computer configuration is described below.
>>
>> Please help.
>>
>> Computer specs:
>> Intel Core2Duo 1.7 gh
>> Intel Motherboard 946gzis
>> Shared video memory 64mb
>> Phisical RAM memory 2gb
>> 320 Western Digital HD SATA
>> Extra 40GB IDE drive together with LG cd burner.
>> ENLTV tv-in card
>> Multi-card reader installed
>> Extra C-Media Sound Card Value installed.
>> USB HP Scanner
>> USB HP Printer
>> USB Go Tec webcam
>>
>> Running on startup:
>> PAC for the tv card
>> Skype, MSN, YAM, AIM, MySpace IM
>> NOD32
>> DUMeter
>> BlueSoleil BtTray.exe (bluetooth device)
>>
>>
>
>
> TMA,
>
> It's possible your previous System Restore points are taking up much
> of
> this disk space. You can always delete all prior restore points to free up
> disk space. Also, if you have low RAM and/or your paging file does not
> have
> enough space alloted your machine could be writing everything to the
> harddrive instead.
>
> Have a nice day.
>
> C.B.

Hello,

As described in the previous message I have 2 gb of ram (which I think is
pretty reasonable) and both my pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys files are each
2 gb. Again, I ran out of disk space last nite and repartitioned it so it
would be 5 gb bigger and TODAY it took all this extra space that I just gave
it and now I only have 17mb available.

"Red Swingline Stapler" <> wrote in message
news:Xns9A338AD46877Dnowaycom@207.46.248.16...
> "TMA" <> wrote in news:OgBFQudYIHA.4332
> @TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl:
>
>> I have
>> already applied all the updates from MS
>
>
> These updates could play a role. Also, how much RAM do you have? It is
> possible you have a paging file going out of control if you have limited
> RAM.

I have run into this same issue recently, and the culprit is the fact
that large numbers of System Restores are being written, as I am adding
software after yet another reinstall of Vista 64 Ultimate. On my system
the restores were consuming more than 15GB of space (estimated, as Vista
hides the size of the folder in which the restores are kept) on a 120GB
drive (which loses more than 15GB with an HP factory recovery partition,
a hidden QuickPlay partition, NTFS formatting, etc.).

The slider for the the Restores size that existed in XP isn't found in
Vista, for whatever reason I don't know, other than MS being bound and
determined to get as much control away from users as possible. As
usual. And the "fix" is to go into Disk Cleanup and blow away all the
Restores but the last one. Which is stupid. But that seems to be Vista
x64, the "ultimate" OS.

I find it amazing that in using Vista the need for command line inputs
seems to be 10x that of XP. Why, oh why?

So...to change the size of the system restore space allocation, and
free that space back up for the drive, you have to do the following:

From a command prompt:

vssadmin resize shadowstorage /on=c: /for=c: /maxsize=4GB

(I used 10GB, which on my system saved the last 13 restores)

There are a number of how-to-pages on the Web about this, this is the
one I used:

'Change the System Restore Size in Windows Vista'
(http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/25/cha...-windows-vista)

I hope this helps...maybe. Good luck.




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TMA;589478 Wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As described in the previous message I have 2 gb of ram (which I think
> is
> pretty reasonable) and both my pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys files are
> each
> 2 gb. Again, I ran out of disk space last nite and repartitioned it so
> it
> would be 5 gb bigger and TODAY it took all this extra space that I just
> gave
> it and now I only have 17mb available.
>
> "CB" <CB@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:21133579-CFC6-40AC-960E-DB1D4334A598@xxxxxx> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "TMA" wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > TMA,
> > >
> > > It's possible your previous System Restore points are taking up much
> > > of
> > > this disk space. You can always delete all prior restore points to
> > free up
> > > disk space. Also, if you have low RAM and/or your paging file does
> > not
> > > have
> > > enough space alloted your machine could be writing everything to the
> > > harddrive instead.
> > >
> > > Have a nice day.
> > >
> > > C.B. > >

Hi TMA,

Check your System Restore Point size to see how large it is. This will
show you how to check it and change the maximum size allowed for them.
If you want to just delete all but the most recent one, then see the
NOTE at the top for Disk Cleanup.

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/76...isk-space.html

Shawn


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