Chris;1185665 Wrote:
Yesterday something strange happened: even though I have about 10 gigs
of
free space on my hard disk, I suddenly got a message saying that the
free
space was critically low. True enough: it was down to 200MB.. I
restarted the
system, and I was back to 10.1 gigs of free space. Then it started to
go
down.. I ran several checks for viruses and other malware, but the
computer
is apparently clean. I defragmented the disk, which took the free space
down
to 2,4 gig, then restarted the PC twice and I got back my 10.1 gig (it
should
be higher because I also unstalled three or four programs to free
space).
Today, however, the system has already lost 500MB from just being
switched
on. I am a bit nervous for the future prospects...

I would really like to know what is going on, what are the processes
that
eat my gigs? Two days ago, I received a major update from Vista. Could
that
be it? Can anybody help - for instance by suggesting how I can diagnose
the
problem?
I had the same problem. It turned out my max storage for my restore
points was set to 69GB. All my space was disappearing to restore points.
I cleared my restore points, created a new restore point, then went to
the command prompt and re-sized my system restore allocation. Here is
the command:
c:\vssadmin Resize ShadowStorage /For=C: /On=C: /MaxSize=40GB
Choose what ever size you want...I went with 1GB. I figured how many
restore points do I really need. Good Luck...this works!


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