Hi Bill,
A previous post from Alex: Checkpoints and Suggestions
Folder Options - View set to show Hidden files, and *not* Hide
Protected mode ones and try again. The hidden protected files could
easily add up to a couple of GB. If this shows the disk filling then
some things to do:
Go to Control Panel - System - Advanced - Performance Settings -
Advanced - Virtual Memory and click Settings. Highlight the other
drive and put a system managed page file on it; click Set, then
highlight C and put a custom one there, initial size only 2, Max 50,
click Set (the one on C will probably never come into existence,, but
the system tends to sulk if it is not allowed).
Decide if you want to Hibernate - if not, Control Panel - Power Options
and in Hibernate uncheck the enable; that will save a file the size of
RAM
In System - System restore highlight the drive and take settings; reduce
the space allowed, which is probably 1000 MB, to say 400
In Control Panel - Internet Options; central Temporary Internet files
area you can click Settings and move the folder to the other drive.
And you may have more than you think in My Documents - open a window on
C:\Documents and Settings\you\
to show it; open a window on your other disk, and *right* drag it over,
taking *Move* here.
More reading and information here:
http://tinyurl.com/yuw8c
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Kelly
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"Bill Rubin" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> The hibernation file is 500mb (more or less). It's there when I
> have plenty of disk space free, and it's the same size when I
> don't.
>
> Bill
>
> Kelly wrote:
>>
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>> > drive this morning when I hibernated.
>>
>> Ever thought to check this file?
>>
>> It reserves disk space equal to your RAM. If you have a hidden file on
>> the
>> root directory of your C-drive called hiberfil.sys, hibernation is
>> enabled.
>>
>> To remove that file, go to Display Properties, Screensaver, Power,
>> Hibernate
>> tab, and uncheck the Enable hibernation box.
>> --
>> All the Best,
>> Kelly
>>
>> Microsoft-MVP Windows® XP
>> 2004 Windows MVP "Winny" Award
>>
>> Troubleshooting Windows XP
>> http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com
>>
>> Taskbar Repair Tool Plus!
>> http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/taskbarplus!.htm
>>
>> "Bill Rubin" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> >
>> >
>> > Malke wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Bill Rubin wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > I've got a situation where I have my C: drive getting full
>> >> > (little of no free space) and I cannot figure out what file(s)
>> >> > are taking it. I left my machine with 100mb+ free space on this
>> >> > drive this morning when I hibernated. When I got home tonight,
>> >> > with my son using the system, the C: drive was totally full. I
>> >> > did a search by date for files modified in the last day, and I
>> >> > do not see any large files out there. I've tried running the
>> >> > File Monitor program from www.sysinternals.com and I can see
>> >> > some strange files being written to like SNDCON.log in the
>> >> > Symantec Shared folder, by ccEvtMgr) but when I look at that
>> >> > file it's fairly small (67,780 bytes). I also see files
>> >> > WANCommonInterfaceConfig[1].xml and WANIPConnection[1].xml being
>> >> > written to in C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\systemprofile\Local
>> >> > Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\ZL7D82L4 -- which
>> >> > I might add is NOT my normal directory for IE cache files -- but
>> >> > those are also fairly small. I'd certainly love to know what
>> >> > those are, too.
>> >> >
>> >> > Is there anything I can do to figure out what is running and
>> >> > eating up my disk space? I have not tried rebooting to see if
>> >> > open files get closed and maybe figure something out that way.
>> >> > I also ran the handles program from the aforementioned folks and
>> >> > can see a bunch of open files but nothing looks obvious. Oh and
>> >> > my swap space, is not on this drive, so it's not that the swap
>> >> > file is growing.
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks..
>> >> > Bill
>> >>
>> >> First order of business: What does a scan with a current antivirus
>> >> program (meaning a version not earlier than 2002 and using updated
>> >> virus definitions) show?
>> >>
>> >> Malke
>> >> --
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>> >
>> > Sorry, I should have included this info, virus scan runs clean
>> > as does Spysweeper for spyware.
>> >
>> > When I look in Task Manager. svchost.exe (121 million) and
>> > services.exe (11 million) have the most I/O writes, followed by
>> > lsass.exe (almost 5 million).
>> >
>> > I would expect to have the File Monitor program show me what's
>> > being written.. although the disk space did not seem to be going
>> > down when I was running it. I cleared some space a little while
>> > ago, and it's eaten up again now. Naturally, I wasn't logging
>> > anything during that time. Is there some other program that
>> > would be good for logging file writes?
>> >
>> > Bill
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