Update size on Hard-drive

[Charles L.]

After doing a clean install of WindowsXP Pro, I checked
the HD useage on drive C: using Windows Explorer. I have
set "folder options" to show hidden and system files. The
result was 2.512 Gig of space was used.

I then ran Windows Update and installed 23 of the critical
updates. I again checked drive C: and found that 3.509 Gig
of space was used. This was after making sure that the
recycle bin was empty and the Internet Cache was also
empty.

This is an increase of almost 1 Gig of space or 40% of the
original installation. This appears to be very, very high.
No programs etc have been installed, only WindowsXP.

I cannot account for all of the disk space used. Using
Windows Explorer and clicking on properties for the 6
folders that appear in the root of C:, I get the following:
C:\ 3.509 Gig
C:\Documents & Settings 0.019 Gig
C:\Recycler 0.0 Gig
C:\System Volume 0.0 Gig
C:\Program Files 0.091 Gig
C:\Windows 1.100 Gig

Thanks for your help

 

[Ted Zieglar aka \Rocky\]

Have you thought about using XP's Search function (Start > Search)? For
example, you can ask Search to display all files 1 MB and larger and then
sort the results in descending order.

 

[HillBillyBuddhist]

| After doing a clean install of WindowsXP Pro, I checked
| the HD useage on drive C: using Windows Explorer. I have
| set "folder options" to show hidden and system files. The
| result was 2.512 Gig of space was used.
|
| I then ran Windows Update and installed 23 of the critical
| updates. I again checked drive C: and found that 3.509 Gig
| of space was used. This was after making sure that the
| recycle bin was empty and the Internet Cache was also
| empty.
|
| This is an increase of almost 1 Gig of space or 40% of the
| original installation. This appears to be very, very high.
| No programs etc have been installed, only WindowsXP.
|
| I cannot account for all of the disk space used.

|
| Thanks for your help
|
|

SequoiaView is an excellent free (and clean) utility to track down
mysterious missing drive space.

It provides a one window graphical representation of which files are taking
up how much space where on a drive, often tracking down files that Windows
is reluctant to reveal.

http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/

It'll let you know what's going on at a glance.


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