virtualized files - WTF?

[Mark Swope]

I woke up this morning to find that my 50G partition's free space had shrunk
from 20G to 1G because Vista "virtualized" 18G of my stuff.
(c:/Users/me/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows) I had to use a *different OS*
to see why that folder was 20G - it's hidden and undetectable in Vista
itself.

Okay - Vista is trying to "protect" me. Again. Thanks.

Is the only way to get around this by running all my applications as
"administrator"?

mark

 

[theclyde]

I woke up this morning to find that my 50G partition's free space had shrunk
from 20G to 1G because Vista "virtualized" 18G of my stuff.
(c:/Users/me/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows) I had to use a *different OS*
to see why that folder was 20G - it's hidden and undetectable in Vista
itself.

Okay - Vista is trying to "protect" me. Again. Thanks.

Is the only way to get around this by running all my applications as
"administrator"?

mark

You could try not running applications. Guarantee no errors that way.

I have installed my apps into a non program files directory for quite
a while now, so I have not noticed this problem.