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squishy
I have been asked to support a Vista laptop at a client's business. I'll
have to do it eventually, so I figured "what the hell...may as well start
with the most buggy version".
I am not all that peeved about the bugs. ALL first gen software is buggy.
People should understand that by now. It will get better after a service
pack or 2.
What does bug me though is that it seems tha Windows Vista Business edition
is stealing drive space. Let me explain...
If I go into explorer and look at the C: drive, it tells me that I have 139
GB free of 184 GB. That's 45 GB of space being used. No problem, right?
Wrong. If I use explorer to go to the root of C:\, select ALL files and
folders (remembering to go to View and make all files and folders visible -
"not hidden" first) and click properties - it says that the total "size on
disk" is only 22,542,475,264 bytes (~ 23 GB).
So where is the other 22 GB? Is Vista keeping a complete copy of the drive
hidden from the users?
What am I missing here (besides 22 GB of my client's hard drive)?
squishy
have to do it eventually, so I figured "what the hell...may as well start
with the most buggy version".
I am not all that peeved about the bugs. ALL first gen software is buggy.
People should understand that by now. It will get better after a service
pack or 2.
What does bug me though is that it seems tha Windows Vista Business edition
is stealing drive space. Let me explain...
If I go into explorer and look at the C: drive, it tells me that I have 139
GB free of 184 GB. That's 45 GB of space being used. No problem, right?
Wrong. If I use explorer to go to the root of C:\, select ALL files and
folders (remembering to go to View and make all files and folders visible -
"not hidden" first) and click properties - it says that the total "size on
disk" is only 22,542,475,264 bytes (~ 23 GB).
So where is the other 22 GB? Is Vista keeping a complete copy of the drive
hidden from the users?
What am I missing here (besides 22 GB of my client's hard drive)?
squishy