Hard drive capacity keeps dropping

[Guest]

i have a new laptop with 250GB HD, after built all all programs were
installed it left me with 192GB. i havent installed any new programs or music
but have noticed it has dropped down now to 174GB, this is very strange, any
suggestions please.

 

[Annie R J Brion]

i have a new laptop with 250GB HD, after built all all programs were
installed it left me with 192GB. i havent installed any new programs or music
but have noticed it has dropped down now to 174GB, this is very strange, any
suggestions please.

System Restore uses many of GBs of the drives space.

<http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/9f6d755a-74bb-4a7d-a625-d762dd8e79e51033.mspx>

I have System Restore switched off and use Acronis TrueImage (System
State backup) to backup to my second HDD. This allows me to take full
control over my system as I can save the System State when I want to and
to were I store the backup.

 

[Tom Ferguson]

So, what is the problem, exactly? Is the system sluggish or otherwise
misbehaving? Or is it simply that the HD shows less space available?

From your information, it would seem that there is plenty of available
space on the HD. You do not report anything unusual.

The system will use drive space for various things like e-mail storage,
temporary file space for the internet browser, disk caching, temporary
file space for file downloads and copy/paste operations. So, keep a eye
on it for a while to get a feel for normal operations. However, unless
other symptoms such as sluggishness or system freezes develop, I would
not get concerned.

Tom
MSMVP 1998-2007

 

[NoStop]

i have a new laptop with 250GB HD, after built all all programs were
installed it left me with 192GB. i havent installed any new programs or
music but have noticed it has dropped down now to 174GB, this is very
strange, any suggestions please.

Sure. Dump Vista and move to a real operating system, like Ubuntu.

Cheers.

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[Frank]

I FLY wrote:




Sure. Dump Vista and move to a real operating system, like Ubuntu.

Cheers.

Give it up doris...you're not wanted nor needed in this Vista ng.
Nor is your toy os, linux/ubuntu worth a sh*t.
Frank

 

[Guest]

thanks Shawn, i never noticed the more options tab in disk clean up, i did a
clean up on restore points and left the most recent and HD went back up to
206GB. how often does it make restore points? should i leave it turned on or
do u recommend off.
thanks for the help
marco