Windows Vista Forum Home    Search    Members    Calendar    Who's On Welcome Guest ( Login | Register )       Recent Posts    Popular Topics Home » Vista Newsgroups » Hardware Performance » Losing Hard drive Space in Vista Losing Hard drive Space in Vista Rate Topic Display Mode Topic Options Author Message RH710 Posted 3/26/2008 6:50:06 PM Ok I disabled system restore and that gave me alot more space.For now anyway.Everytime I install or uninstall a program does that create a new restore point in vista?Maybe thats part of the problem? Thanks RH710 Post #71134 Gary J. Dikkema Posted 3/31/2008 8:21:04 PM Post in reply to: RH710 I can't account for some 20 GB on my hard drive. Surely a near pristine Vista HP install shouldn't consume 50+ GB of my 80 GB drive? I'm not alone in this situation. Sure would like the answer... TIA. Post #76889 helper :P Posted 4/21/2008 5:35:08 PM ok i have had this problem with my vista computer too. my dad kept saying i downloaded stuff but all i found was like 12 gb worth of stuff. i delete my restore points. did everything everyone was saying. it always decreased. I showed all files and folders. went into my c drive. i highlightted everything and when it was showing my stuff it suddenlu jumped to 112 so i high light each folder at a time one was like 101 gb big. i went into it. it was actually my users file. i went to my name. then app data then roaming. apparantly there was this .dat file going bad. it was in my real player folder. it was 96.1 gb big. i delete it and real player and everything works fine. i now have 114 gb. of free space. i had to do this by mytself and it took forever. there was no right answer. so post it everywhere it should help. system restore doesnt do that bad of space. Post #94917 « Prev Topic | Next Topic » Reading This Topic Active Users: 0 (0 guests, 0 members, 0 anonymous members) No members currently viewing this topic. Permissions You cannot post new topics. You cannot post topic replies. You cannot post new polls. You cannot post replies to polls. You cannot edit your own topics. You cannot delete your own topics. You cannot edit other topics. You cannot delete other topics. You cannot edit your own posts. You cannot edit other posts. You cannot delete your own posts. You cannot delete other posts. You cannot post events. You cannot edit your own events. You cannot edit other events. You cannot delete your own events. You cannot delete other events. You cannot send private messages. You cannot send emails. You may read topics. You cannot rate topics. You cannot vote within polls. You cannot upload attachments. You cannot download attachments. You cannot post HTML code. You cannot edit HTML code. You cannot post IFCode. You cannot post JavaScript. You cannot post EmotIcons. You cannot post or upload images. Forum Jump...----------------Forum HomeSearchMembers ListCalendarWho's Online---------------- Members  |-- Vista News  |-- Register Now! (Redirect Forum)  |-- Vista Downloads Off-Topic General Discussion  |-- Main Lounge  |-- Introductions  |-- Site News & Announcements Vista Technical  |-- General Technical  |-- Installation & Compatibility  |-- Networking & Internet  |-- Drivers  |-- Performance & Tweaks  |-- Security  |-- Recovery & Backup Vista Multimedia  |-- Audio & Video  |-- Gaming Support  |-- Sidebar & GUI Customization Vista Newsgroups  |-- General Technical  |-- Installation, Setup & Upgrading  |-- Internet, Networking & Sharing  |-- System Peformance & Maintenance  |-- Hardware Troubleshooting  |-- Hardware Performance  |-- General Security  |-- Games and Gameplay Support  |-- Documents and Files  |-- Windows Mail  |-- Printers/Fax/Scan Support  |-- Multimedia (Music/Pictures/Video)  |-- UAC & User Accounts All times are GMT -6:00, Time now is 11:24pm Powered By InstantForum.NET v4.1.4 © 2008 Execution: 0.156. 8 queries. Compression Enabled.