I just had a computer built w/ Vista Home Premium. After loading my music,
pictures and other files from my other computer it says that I am using 80 GB
of memory. I only loaded just over 30 GB of files. What happened to the other
50 or so GB? I looked through all the files to make sure there were not
double copies, etc. and looked at program files and all users files. Nowhere
do I see files adding up to nearly 80 GB. Any idea what happened to my memory?

Hi,

To be clear, it's drive space and not memory. Memory is the amount of
physical and virtual ram used/installed on a system. C:\ is your hard drive
volume used for storage of data.

There are many things that can take up space. Among them are the virtual
memory (paging file), hibernating file (hiberfil.sys), and system restore
and shadow copies (and this is a HUGE one).

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"jereko73" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:C43CAFFF-744A-41DD-8F36-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I just had a computer built w/ Vista Home Premium. After loading my music,
> pictures and other files from my other computer it says that I am using 80
> GB
> of memory. I only loaded just over 30 GB of files. What happened to the
> other
> 50 or so GB? I looked through all the files to make sure there were not
> double copies, etc. and looked at program files and all users files.
> Nowhere
> do I see files adding up to nearly 80 GB. Any idea what happened to my
> memory?

Hi -

Thanks for the reply. Is there a way for me to see my drive space allocation
without having to go through all of the files on my computer? C:\ drive
properties shows me how much drive space is used but not file types and how
much space they are consuming.

Eric

"Rick Rogers" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> To be clear, it's drive space and not memory. Memory is the amount of
> physical and virtual ram used/installed on a system. C:\ is your hard drive
> volume used for storage of data.
>
> There are many things that can take up space. Among them are the virtual
> memory (paging file), hibernating file (hiberfil.sys), and system restore
> and shadow copies (and this is a HUGE one).
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "jereko73" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:C43CAFFF-744A-41DD-8F36-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I just had a computer built w/ Vista Home Premium. After loading my music,
> > pictures and other files from my other computer it says that I am using 80
> > GB
> > of memory. I only loaded just over 30 GB of files. What happened to the
> > other
> > 50 or so GB? I looked through all the files to make sure there were not
> > double copies, etc. and looked at program files and all users files.
> > Nowhere
> > do I see files adding up to nearly 80 GB. Any idea what happened to my
> > memory?
>
>

Hi,

Not easily, as there are thousands and thousands of files/folders to look
at.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"jereko73" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:C8755A55-3AE0-4EC0-BCBB-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi -
>
> Thanks for the reply. Is there a way for me to see my drive space
> allocation
> without having to go through all of the files on my computer? C:\ drive
> properties shows me how much drive space is used but not file types and
> how
> much space they are consuming.
>
> Eric
>
> "Rick Rogers" wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> To be clear, it's drive space and not memory. Memory is the amount of
>> physical and virtual ram used/installed on a system. C:\ is your hard
>> drive
>> volume used for storage of data.
>>
>> There are many things that can take up space. Among them are the virtual
>> memory (paging file), hibernating file (hiberfil.sys), and system restore
>> and shadow copies (and this is a HUGE one).
>>
>> --
>> Best of Luck,
>>
>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>>
>> "jereko73" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:C43CAFFF-744A-41DD-8F36-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> >I just had a computer built w/ Vista Home Premium. After loading my
>> >music,
>> > pictures and other files from my other computer it says that I am using
>> > 80
>> > GB
>> > of memory. I only loaded just over 30 GB of files. What happened to the
>> > other
>> > 50 or so GB? I looked through all the files to make sure there were not
>> > double copies, etc. and looked at program files and all users files.
>> > Nowhere
>> > do I see files adding up to nearly 80 GB. Any idea what happened to my
>> > memory?
>>
>>

Yeah, it seems like I've been through most of them, haha. Thanks anyway.

Eric

"Rick Rogers" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Not easily, as there are thousands and thousands of files/folders to look
> at.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "jereko73" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:C8755A55-3AE0-4EC0-BCBB-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hi -
> >
> > Thanks for the reply. Is there a way for me to see my drive space
> > allocation
> > without having to go through all of the files on my computer? C:\ drive
> > properties shows me how much drive space is used but not file types and
> > how
> > much space they are consuming.
> >
> > Eric
> >
> > "Rick Rogers" wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> To be clear, it's drive space and not memory. Memory is the amount of
> >> physical and virtual ram used/installed on a system. C:\ is your hard
> >> drive
> >> volume used for storage of data.
> >>
> >> There are many things that can take up space. Among them are the virtual
> >> memory (paging file), hibernating file (hiberfil.sys), and system restore
> >> and shadow copies (and this is a HUGE one).
> >>
> >> --
> >> Best of Luck,
> >>
> >> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> >> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> >> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> >> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
> >>
> >> "jereko73" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> >> news:C43CAFFF-744A-41DD-8F36-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> >I just had a computer built w/ Vista Home Premium. After loading my
> >> >music,
> >> > pictures and other files from my other computer it says that I am using
> >> > 80
> >> > GB
> >> > of memory. I only loaded just over 30 GB of files. What happened to the
> >> > other
> >> > 50 or so GB? I looked through all the files to make sure there were not
> >> > double copies, etc. and looked at program files and all users files.
> >> > Nowhere
> >> > do I see files adding up to nearly 80 GB. Any idea what happened to my
> >> > memory?
> >>
> >>
>
>