Is Vista Eating Up Your Hard Drive Space?
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Virus Dude
Joined: Mon Jul 07, 2008 8:05 pm Posts: 884 Location: C:\WINDOWS\system32 (Wales) |
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After playing around with Vista for a few months, I noticed that it is slowly eating up my hard drive space - and I couldn’t figure out where it is all going. A quick Google search made me realize that it uses a lot of gigabytes for ‘System Restore’. I rarely ever use this so it is really unnecessary for Vista to take 15+ GB for it - in my case. Here is what you can do to check how much space Vista is using for System Restore and to decrease it.
To check how much space is being used, go to command prompt with administrator privileges: Click Start - All Programs - Accessories. Right click on ‘Command Prompt’ and click ‘Run as Administrator’. Type the following in the command prompt:vssadmin list shadowstorage The results shown will be similar to this: example Used Shadow Copy Storage space: 2.702 GB Allocated Shadow Copy Storage space: 2.933 GB Maximum Shadow Copy Storage space: 5 GB If you feel like Vista is taking up too much space, then use this command to lower it:vssadmin resize shadowstorage /On=[Drive Letter]: /For=[Drive Letter]: /Maxsize=[space]For example, I executed this command to lower it to 2GB: vssadmin resize shadowstorage /On=C: /For=C: /Maxsize=2GB This saved me more than 15 gigabytes, which I can use to store more essential files on the hard drive. So hope this helps you   clawdius. _________________  PSN - mike0491   1.2 Zetec
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Joined: Mon Apr 14, 2008 5:55 am Posts: 90 Location: Scotland |
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clawdius wrote: After playing around with Vista for a few months, I noticed that it is slowly eating up my hard drive space - and I couldn’t figure out where it is all going. A quick Google search made me realize that it uses a lot of gigabytes for ‘System Restore’. I rarely ever use this so it is really unnecessary for Vista to take 15+ GB for it - in my case. Here is what you can do to check how much space Vista is using for System Restore and to decrease it. To check how much space is being used, go to command prompt with administrator privileges: Click Start - All Programs - Accessories. Right click on ‘Command Prompt’ and click ‘Run as Administrator’. Type the following in the command prompt:vssadmin list shadowstorage The results shown will be similar to this: example Used Shadow Copy Storage space: 2.702 GB Allocated Shadow Copy Storage space: 2.933 GB Maximum Shadow Copy Storage space: 5 GB If you feel like Vista is taking up too much space, then use this command to lower it:vssadmin resize shadowstorage /On=[Drive Letter]: /For=[Drive Letter]: /Maxsize=[space]For example, I executed this command to lower it to 2GB: vssadmin resize shadowstorage /On=C: /For=C: /Maxsize=2GB This saved me more than 15 gigabytes, which I can use to store more essential files on the hard drive. So hope this helps you clawdius. yeh m8 that happened to me i have u huge hard drive but it sed it was nearly full when i had hardly and programs, the next day, it sed i had lots of space, it was going up and down like a yo-yo and i had no idea what was going on thanks m8 nice post _________________ Wez's Designs™ http://wez-htid.bebo.com   
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Virus Dude
Joined: Mon Jul 07, 2008 8:05 pm Posts: 884 Location: C:\WINDOWS\system32 (Wales) |
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Tis no problem mate
mine was always changing every time i booted my system so did that and i dont have the same issues now with the space varying (: also you may not have even done system restore before, however when you install software and or hardware it creates restore points which take up the memory so clear them out if you don't need them using that command prompt! _________________ PSN - mike04911.2 Zetec
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Cl4nd35t1n3
Joined: Thu Sep 06, 2007 12:26 am Posts: 2597 Location: USA |
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clawdius wrote: Tis no problem mate mine was always changing every time i booted my system so did that and i dont have the same issues now with the space varying (: also you may not have even done system restore before, however when you install software and or hardware it creates restore points which take up the memory so clear them out if you don't need them using that command prompt! Thankx, I Will Do This As Soon As My Visa Gets Here. Rep+ To You _________________ How Get Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 Forever How To Add A Signature With A Grafik Song/Lyric Request - Report Spam So That We Can Delete It And Keep The Forums Tidy - - Need Help? Pm Me! - My Myspace: http://www.Myspace.com/R_3_3_C_3 MSN: Ask For It |
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Virus Dude
Joined: Mon Jul 07, 2008 8:05 pm Posts: 884 Location: C:\WINDOWS\system32 (Wales) |
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haha t.y
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Cl4nd35t1n3
Joined: Thu Sep 06, 2007 12:26 am Posts: 2597 Location: USA |
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Thank you soo much for this. My max shadow size was 30gb!
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Virus Dude
Joined: Mon Jul 07, 2008 8:05 pm Posts: 884 Location: C:\WINDOWS\system32 (Wales) |
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Flip thats a lot as when i did it i had 16GB
 but now ive wiped my sys a reinstalled everything and got 8gb to remove lol glad it helped you reece as it defo did 4 me _________________ PSN - mike04911.2 Zetec
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Michael
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