Winupdate consumed most of my free space

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I updated Windows, and this resulted in a reduction of some 370MB in my free
space. The update included Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (22MB update, 88MB on
disk)and some small additional update. I know that a new system restore point
took up 76MB, up from the previous restore point, which took 50MB. What
happened to some 200MB of my free space?

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Herzi

Is your hard drive partitioned or do you have more than one hard drive?

To investigate how you are using hard disk space you need to make sure
that you can see all files. Go to Start, Control Panel, Folder Options,
View, Advanced Settings and verify that the box before "Show hidden
files and folders" is checked and "Hide protected operating system files
" is unchecked. You may need to scroll down to see the second item. You
should also make certain that the box before "Hide extensions for known
file types" is not checked. Next in Windows Explorer make sure View,
Details is selected and then select View, Choose Details and check
before Name, Type, Total Size, and Free Space.

What is the capacity, used space and free space of your C drive In
Windows Explorer right click on the
and post the details? Is the drive formatted as FAT32 or NTFS?

Next right click your My Computer icon on the Desktop and select System
Restore. Which drives are shown as Monitored and which as Turned Off?
Click on each drive shown as Monitored and then Settings. Post details
of disk usage -percentage and mb.

To increase you free space select Start, All Programs, Accessories,
System Tools, Disk CleanUp, More Options, System
Restore and remove all but the latest restore points? Restore points can
be quite large Mine are currently 41 mb, although all except the latest
are compressed to 20 mb on disk. By the way System Restore Points are
hidden files which you will not see even after you have taken the
measures to show hidden files detailed above.

Whenever you have made significant changes to files stored on your hard
drive you should run Disk Defragmenter.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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[Guest]

I actually wrote another post on this subject withou seeing yous - the
problem you are having can probably be explained by the fact that the Version
2.0 install leaves a whole lot of Version 1.0 files behind!!
As an example - search for Vsa.dll and you will see your computer has both
the 7.10.3052.4 file and a 8.0.50727.42 of the same file!
I eagerly await the answer fromMicrosoft!! James Wright

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Jim

You are seeing are seeing backup copies of files which would replace the
existing system files if you chose to uninstall version 2.0.50727. This
folder named v1.1.4322 and its contents take up 39 mb.

I suspect you can see this folder but If you can't see the folder go to
Start, Control Panel, Folder Options,
View, Advanced Settings and verify that the box before "Show hidden
files and folders" is checked and "Hide protected operating system files
" is unchecked. You may need to scroll down to see the second item. You
should also make certain that the box before "Hide extensions for known
file types" is not checked. Next in Windows Explorer make sure View,
Details is selected and then select View, Choose Details and check
before Name, Type, Total Size, and Free Space.

Is your windows folder on a hard drive or partition formatted as NTFS?
If yes and not compressed you can
compress them. Right click on folder and select Properties, General,
Advanced and check the box before Compress contents to save Disk Space.
On the General Tab you can see the amount gained by deducting the size
on disk from the size. Folder compression is only an option on a NTFS
formatted drive / partition. This measure will give you back 16 mb of
disk space.

If you have compressed files and they do not appear in blue characters
in Windows Explorer select Start, Control Panel, Folder Options, View
tab and you will see the Advanced Settings List below Folder View. Then
scroll down the list to it's end and you will see "Show Encrypted and
Compressed NTFS Files in Color" on the line above. Check the box before
"Show Encrypted and Compressed NTFS Files in Color".

You can also increase your free space selecting Start, All Programs,
Accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp, More Options, System
Restore and remove all but the latest restore points? Restore points can
be quite large. By the way System Restore Points are
hidden files which you will not see even after you have taken the
measures to show hidden files detailed above.

After doing the above how large is the drive / partition containing your
Windows folder and how much free space does it contain?

Whenever you have made significant changes to files stored on your hard
drive you should run Disk Defragmenter.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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