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I have a 140 gb h/d and after re-installing Vista and nothing else i'm down to 93 gb , i re-installed it because it dropped down to 80 gb not that long ago and was running super slow . Anybody have or had the same issues and have a solution ? Thanks in advance for any help
Lower your pagefile setting and your system restore settings. Right click my computer, properties, advanced system settings, then look for the System Restore settings. Lower the % so that less disk space is allocated for system restore. You could also lower your pagefile memory settings, though that won't really free up too much.
Vista doesn't take up that much. Even though you have a 140 GB hdd, that's not the true size. I have a 320 GB hdd, and in windows it shows up as 297 GB. I can't really explain this part, but you can google it as there are many sites that explain how 1 GB doesn't equate to a true 1 GB.
Did the computer come with some sort of recovery partition? For my computer, that's another 7 gigs right there.
Djxpress was getting at the fact that manufacturers use a factor of 1 GB = 1 billion bytes for computer specs, while your computer uses 1 GB = 1.074 billion bytes.
That means for whatever size your computer manufacturer claims, you're really only getting 93% of that.
Does Vista create an "old Windows install" directory that still has everything from the prior install? I know Windows 7 does that. I believe Disk Cleanup can be used to get rid of it.
Lower your pagefile setting and your system restore settings. Right click my computer, properties, advanced system settings, then look for the System Restore settings. Lower the % so that less disk space is allocated for system restore. You could also lower your pagefile memory settings, though that won't really free up too much.
Vista doesn't take up that much. Even though you have a 140 GB hdd, that's not the true size. I have a 320 GB hdd, and in windows it shows up as 297 GB. I can't really explain this part, but you can google it as there are many sites that explain how 1 GB doesn't equate to a true 1 GB.
Thanks will look into this
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Did the computer come with some sort of recovery partition? For my computer, that's another 7 gigs right there.
Djxpress was getting at the fact that manufacturers use a factor of 1 GB = 1 billion bytes for computer specs, while your computer uses 1 GB = 1.074 billion bytes.
That means for whatever size your computer manufacturer claims, you're really only getting 93% of that.
Yes it does but after i re-install Vista it shows 124 gb then from there on it starts absorbing gb's
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Does Vista create an "old Windows install" directory that still has everything from the prior install? I know Windows 7 does that. I believe Disk Cleanup can be used to get rid of it.
Yes, it keeps the old Windows data if you reinstall. To get rid of it:
Go to Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Cleanup.
In "Which files to clean up" dialog > Click on "Files from all users on this computer".
Select the Drive where your Windows.old is.
In Disk Cleanup dialog, select Previous Windows installation(s) in the "Files to delete" list. Click on OK.
If you still think your disk is still too full and you don't have a recovery partition try using WinDirStat. It will show you what files are taking up space. WinDirStat - Windows Directory Statistics
Yes, it keeps the old Windows data if you reinstall. To get rid of it:
Go to Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Cleanup.
In "Which files to clean up" dialog > Click on "Files from all users on this computer".
Select the Drive where your Windows.old is.
In Disk Cleanup dialog, select Previous Windows installation(s) in the "Files to delete" list. Click on OK.
If you still think your disk is still too full and you don't have a recovery partition try using WinDirStat. It will show you what files are taking up space. WinDirStat - Windows Directory Statistics
Thank you will work on it once the kids are a sleep
Ran 3 disk clean-up's and rose it up to 108 gb wtf is going on which is close to what is should be being that i have about 5 gb's of family pics , is this something i have to do all of the time to keep it from running sluggish ?
just download ccleaner and run it once or twice a month
I've been using that for years and it didn't do what disk clean-up did today
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