Vista home premium drain my hard drive

[Roque]

Vista home premium drain my hard drive since upgrade from win xp media
center.\
any help to recover my hard memory. I had 140 gig and now I have 134 gig.
and keep and going, ay help will be welcome/
thanks in advance

Roque

 

[Paul Smith]

Vista home premium drain my hard drive since upgrade from win xp media
center.\
any help to recover my hard memory. I had 140 gig and now I have 134 gig.
and keep and going, ay help will be welcome/
thanks in advance

This isn't surprising. You should set aside:

1x your RAM for the hibernate file.
~1.5x your RAM for the pagefile.
15% of your total drive for System Restore and Shadow copy.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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[Roque]

Thanks: wow ! 15% is lot.
Roque.

This isn't surprising. You should set aside:

1x your RAM for the hibernate file.
~1.5x your RAM for the pagefile.
15% of your total drive for System Restore and Shadow copy.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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[Roque]

Thanks Paul. I forgot to mention that my HD is 160 gig.
Roque.