Hidden files on C drive?

[Gordon]

Vista Home premium. Toshiba Satellite L40.
I have enabled hidden files and protected System files in Explorer.
There's about 5GB difference between the listed files and folders and the
space used in drive properties. Does Vista REALLY hide things like the
hibernation file? (Cos I can't see one on the C drive - pagefile is there
but no hibernation file)

 

[Alex T. MVP]

It could be the Hibernation files which do not go into effect till you
actually go into hibernate and that space is saved for that purpose. Could
be your pagefile. Could also be temp files that are not being reported or
something like that. Could have just been a glitch and you need to F5 to
refresh the view.

 

[Gordon]

It could be the Hibernation files which do not go into effect till you
actually go into hibernate and that space is saved for that purpose.

That sounds probably the reason. So Vista only creates a physical
hibernation file when the machine goes into hibernation, unlike XP which has
a physical file all the time if hibernation is turned on?

Could be your pagefile.

Pagefile is visible and I included that in the "visible" total space used.

 

[Jon]

That sounds probably the reason. So Vista only creates a physical
hibernation file when the machine goes into hibernation, unlike XP which
has a physical file all the time if hibernation is turned on?

If hibernation is active then the hibernation file should be visible too,
and it remains even when you've resumed from hibernation It's

C:\hiberfil.sys

You can remove it via Disk Cleanup if you like, by checking the 'Hibernation
File Cleaner' option

Possibly System Restore points are taking up the difference.

 

[Gordon]

"System Volume Information" folder contains System Restore points and
it takes up the difference.

Properties of System Volume Information shows 0 bytes.....