40gb hd but now less than 300mb left.....hmmmm.......

Marty_J

Yep. 010101101

JemJam

loaner wrote: »

how big is windows, and each of the root directories

any other partitions, unpartitioned space?

Nope no other partitions, windows is 13gb and root dir is 30.4gb (assuming i'm looking at the right places!)

Marty_J

That log looks fine now.

Did you try adjusting the size of the recycle bin?

JemJam

Marty_J wrote: »

That log looks fine now.

Did you try adjusting the size of the recycle bin?

Am trying that at the mo, but the pic on the link you sent me is nothing like the pic i have up on here now which is confusing cos I do have admin privilages, and am the only user on the computer??? God i hate vista.

ahhhhhhh it's cos its a shortcut and not the actual bin i think, which doesn't help my brain much.

JemJam

Right sorry for my genius brain(!) but have fixed the recycle bin size now.

Loaner, i'll check on your info and get back to you, will be away from the laptop in question until tomorrow now so will plough on then

Thanks all again!!

JemJam

Just an add on to changing the recycle bin size, it says on the space available that there 31.8gb on the C: drive?? Now I am even more confused:rolleyes:
Anyhoo i changed the custom size for it to 150mb, it was on 940mb before.

Jem

asininity

It might be worth checking this process out:

C:\Windows\adiras.exe

Its a valid program for usb modems but not sure if it should be running from this location. Obviously if you haven't got a usb modem then it may be a nastie.

bookduck

JemJam wrote: »

Have just used Treesize but it didnt tell me much, Free space: 2gb (of 32gb). It had 8gb on the C drive all of it in the following files:
*Program files
*N360_BACKUP
*MSOCache
*Boot
*and in 3 random long numbered files totalling 9mb

Think this may have been the reason the above is so little maybe, it says "access is denied" on the System Volume Information folder

Treesize should tell you quite a bit! The main thing it should tell you is (1) which folder/ files take up the most space (2) which extensions has the most number of occurrences on your pc and where they are located (3) the top 100 biggest files (4) the chart can be quite handy too.

SemperFi

Vista does lots of shadow copies in SysVol.

A quick google should show you how to turn it off!

"To turn off volume shadow copy, first bring up the System Properties window by going to your start menu, and opening up the Control Panel. In Control Panel, click "System and Maintenance". in the window that opens, click "System". On the left panel, look for a line that says "System protection" and click it. The Windows User Account Control, or UAC, will pop up. Click the "Continue" button. In the dialog box that appears, you should be able to see a list box with all the available drives on your computer. Next to each drive is a check box. If there is a check in the box next to the drive, it means volume shadow copy, along with System Restore, is enabled for that drive. To disable volume shadow copy, simply uncheck the box. A dialog box will appear asking if you are sure you want to turn off System Restore. Click the "Turn System Restore off" button. Finally, click the OK button."

or http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/07/01/disable-and-turn-off-system-restore-shadow-copy-in-windows-vista/

This will disable system restore, but should free up space. Think you can reenable after the space is freed, but I didn't.

aliEnRIK

you dont need to turn shadow service off ~ just limit its maximum size