I am fairly new to computers and have Windows Vista Home Premium. Out of curiosity, I check my C Drive under COMPUTER each day and have noticed that it keeps getting less and less free space each day and I haven't added any new programs since I have been checking it. I use CCleaner, Disc Cleanup, and delete Restore Points. I have noticed that 2 weeks ago I had 533,332,680,704 bytes of free space, and today it is down to 524,612,947,968 bytes of free space. I know this isnt that much, but I am curious why it is getting less and less each day. Am I missing a program I should be running or something I should be doing besides the above mentioned things I do to try to free up space? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you
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Why is my C Drive free space lessening ?
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And you will lose a lot more. At least 1GB per day up to nearly 80GB (with your size of disk). This is the shadowstorage that Vista uses to store the restore points (shadows). Vista allocates up to 15% of total storage of your OS disk for that.
Do the following: Go to All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt > right click on Command Prompt > Run as Administrator => into the little black window type: VSSADMIN LIST SHADOWSTORAGE > look for C:/ and tell me what the USED, ALLOCATED and MAXIMUM numbers are. Then I can tell you how you will be doing on disk space.
Here is some easy reading for an easier understanding: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=243
OK, You have another 11GB to go. No sweat with the amount of space you have. Your system must have been running for about 2 months now. This gives you a good amount of restore points for the day your system is in trouble. I would in absolutely no case reduce the shadowstorage (as some people propose). The more restore points you have, the safer you are. Once you get to the 87.75GB, the space will be reused by replacing the oldest by the newest. Then you will no more "lose" space. But you will anyhow never fill your disk. One day it will crash or you will buy a new PC before it ever gets full.
whs, check the definition of "lose" versus "loose" -- you have used it wrong a few times now. I know you like to use the best English possible.
When your hard drive has less space over time, you are losing free space. That disk space is lost.
If the hard drive is no longer held in place, it has become loose.
I agree with WHS about how valuable Shadow Copy can be. Also, here is a little post on how to lower the maximum storage space that Shadow Copy is allowed to use: http://forum.notebookreview.co.....p?t=235118
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