10GB suddenly regained

[ah]

I had between 4 and 5GB free left on my hard drive those last few months.
Suddenly I have now 10GB free without having cleaned anything or without any
Windows or other major update. How could this happen?

 

[Ron Badour]

Unlike water, data does not evaporate so something or someone has apparently
deleted data.

 

[ah]

Of course, this is why I am puzzled. I carry my laptop everywhere with me
and nobody else ever uses it, all my files seem to be there, the OS seems to
be running as usual.

10GB is a lot, I am really anxious about what has happened.

 

[PowerUser]

Did you turn off system restore?

Of course, this is why I am puzzled. I carry my laptop everywhere with me
and nobody else ever uses it, all my files seem to be there, the OS seems
to be running as usual.

10GB is a lot, I am really anxious about what has happened.

 

[ah]

No, I did not. I didn't do anything else than usually.

 

[Unknown]

You didn't do a disk clean? Are you using Outlook Express?

 

[ah]

Yes I use Outlook Express for Newsgroups and Outlook 2003 for mail,
calendar etc... but still 10GB seems to me an awful lot

 

[Unknown]

Are you using outlook express?

Yes I use Outlook Express for Newsgroups and Outlook 2003 for mail,
calendar etc... but still 10GB seems to me an awful lot

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi,

Did you run Disk Clean-up with the System Restore option?

And were any applications uninstalled?

And is Zone Alarm installed on the system?

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org

 

[PowerUser]

Why would ZA have anything to do with this?

Hi,

Did you run Disk Clean-up with the System Restore option?

And were any applications uninstalled?

And is Zone Alarm installed on the system?

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org

 

[Juan I. Cahis]

I remember that I deleted Zone Alarm from my PC because it generated
huge amounts of LOGs (several Gigabytes), in a Windows subdirectory, I
don't remember the name now, and it failed to automatically delete
them after a period of days.

Why would ZA have anything to do with this?

Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi,

Zone Alarm version 6.5 has a bug that creates very large .rdb files within
the system. These .rdb files are monitored by System Restore and thus end up
in the restore points located in the System Volume Information folder, along
with other locations on the system. The best advise is to revert to an
earlier, or newer version of Zone Alarm. Then disable System Restore which
will purge all existing restore points, then turn it back on. For more
information on this subject please visit the Zone Labs User Forum.
http://forum.zonelabs.org/zonelabs/board/message?board.id=gen&message.id=34871

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org