something hogging disk space

[Gordon Biggar]

I run a VMware setup with Vista (64-bit) Home Premium as the Host system,
and Vista (32-bit) Home Premium as the guest system. Although I have only
16 GB devoted to the guest system, at one point recently I was only using
not quite half of that space. Now, when I click on Computer, I am finding
that there is literally no free space. If I delete some software, this
freed up space gets consumed also.

How do I go about finding what it is that is clogging this allocated space?
The only changes that I have made to the guest system is the addition of
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware software.

Gordon Biggar
Houston, Texas

 

[Badger]

Have you tried using Disk Cleanup?

 

[Michael]

I run a VMware setup with Vista (64-bit) Home Premium as the Host system,
and Vista (32-bit) Home Premium as the guest system. Although I have only
16 GB devoted to the guest system, at one point recently I was only using
not quite half of that space. Now, when I click on Computer, I am finding
that there is literally no free space. If I delete some software, this
freed up space gets consumed also.

How do I go about finding what it is that is clogging this allocated
space? The only changes that I have made to the guest system is the
addition of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware software.

Gordon Biggar
Houston, Texas

Sounds like System Restore is eating up space.

 

[Gordon Biggar]

Yes, I have gone that route to free up space, but it almost immediately
disappears. I have even deleted software, but that space disappears also.
Very frustrating.

I ran msconfig, and there are only five programs running at startup; and
under Services, all of the programs that are running are from Microsoft.

GB

 

[Gordon Biggar]

Disk Cleaner gives one the ability to delete all but the last Restore Point,
but this has not seemed to make any difference.

GB

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I run a VMware setup with Vista (64-bit) Home Premium as the Host
system, and Vista (32-bit) Home Premium as the guest system. Although I
have only 16 GB devoted to the guest system, at one
point recently I was only using not quite half of that space. Now,
when I click on Computer, I am finding that there is literally no
free space. If I delete some software, this freed up space gets
consumed also.
How do I go about finding what it is that is clogging this
allocated space? The only changes that I have made to the guest
system is the addition of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware software.

SequoiaView and/or JDiskReport can show you where the space is being used.

 

[Badger]

You might try the following:

Right click CMD.EXE and select Run as Administrator,
Type - VSSADMIN LIST SHADOWSTORAGE,
This will tell you how much space is being used by System Restore,
It can take up to 15% of all the free space.
You can reduce the size by the following:
Type - VSSADMIN RESIZE SHADOWSTORAGE /FOR=C: /ON=C: /MAXSIZE=2GB
You will get a message saying it was approved.
Then Reboot.
This will give you about a weeks worth of restore points.
You can do a MAXSIZE up to 10GB if you need more restore points.