ONE MORE vista question.

MrsE_2

SECOND QUESTION:D

New vista PC

When you click on My computer the recovery (D) hard drive is RED & when you switch on, it warns of running out of space.

And there is an icon in the task bar that says low disc space.

Now I was fiddling about with this at the weekend & I thinik I may have backed up everything on the PC to that HD instead of to the external HD (which was my plan)

The task bar at the botton has a load of icons on the bottom right hand side that load up, upon turning the PC on.
This is moving, hiding & revealing itself if you go near it.
On my last PC I had it static.
How can I make this one static?
I tried the command lock the task bar, but its ticked & its not locked:o
Thank you

sfry

Right click on task bar.

Left click on properties.

Make sure that auto hide the task bar is unticked.

danmanchester

If you mean the system tray where the clock/volume icon are, then you need to right click the taskbar/properties - this opens the Taskbar and Start Menu properties window. On the Notification Area tab, untick "hide inactive icons".

MrsE_2

danmanchester wrote: »

If you mean the system tray where the clock/volume icon are, then you need to right click the taskbar/properties - this opens the Taskbar and Start Menu properties window. On the Notification Area tab, untick "hide inactive icons".

Thank you

Thats done it:beer:

It says 20.3 MB free of 9.99 GB & is RED.

MrsE_2

New vista PC

When you click on My computer the recovery (D) hard drive is RED & when you switch on, it warns of running out of space.

Now I was fiddling about with this at the weekend & I thinik I may have backed up everything on the PC to that HD instead of to the external HD (which was my plan)

MrsE_2

Bump..............

MrsE_2

loaner wrote: »

what is the question. if you have backed up to the wrong drive, backup to the right one, then delete the backup from d.

Thats the one:D

How:o

How will I identfiy what shouldn't be on D?
What IS susposed to be on D?

Thank you

MrsE_2

My computer
Right click on D
Selected Properties
Selected Tool tab
Buttom button "back up"

You see as I couldn't back it up to my external drive (sorted - I can now & have) I decided to back up to my D drive.]

Dates no good only had it a week!

MrsE_2

loaner wrote: »

look for files created in the last week

I'm not trying to be difficult but I've been fiddling around with everything so much in the past week.

Is there anywhere I can find out what should be there?

MrsE_2

loaner wrote: »

Try it.,,,,,,

Some stuff has really old dates on it

But isn't it a back up drive?

So surely some old stuff should be there?

MrsE_2

I'm formatting it!!!

That should get it back to basics?