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October 21st 07, 05:35 AM
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C Drive Memory
I just had a computer built w/ Vista Home Premium. After loading my music,
pictures and other files from my other computer it says that I am using 80 GB of memory. I only loaded just over 30 GB of files. What happened to the other 50 or so GB? I looked through all the files to make sure there were not double copies, etc. and looked at program files and all users files. Nowhere do I see files adding up to nearly 80 GB. Any idea what happened to my memory? 
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October 21st 07, 12:19 PM
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C Drive Memory
Hi,
To be clear, it's drive space and not memory. Memory is the amount of physical and virtual ram used/installed on a system. C:\ is your hard drive volume used for storage of data. There are many things that can take up space. Among them are the virtual memory (paging file), hibernating file (hiberfil.sys), and system restore and shadow copies (and this is a HUGE one). -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "jereko73" wrote in message ... I just had a computer built w/ Vista Home Premium. After loading my music, pictures and other files from my other computer it says that I am using 80 GB of memory. I only loaded just over 30 GB of files. What happened to the other 50 or so GB? I looked through all the files to make sure there were not double copies, etc. and looked at program files and all users files. Nowhere do I see files adding up to nearly 80 GB. Any idea what happened to my memory?
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October 21st 07, 11:03 PM
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C Drive Memory
Hi -
Thanks for the reply. Is there a way for me to see my drive space allocation without having to go through all of the files on my computer? C:\ drive properties shows me how much drive space is used but not file types and how much space they are consuming. Eric "Rick Rogers" wrote: Hi, To be clear, it's drive space and not memory. Memory is the amount of physical and virtual ram used/installed on a system. C:\ is your hard drive volume used for storage of data. There are many things that can take up space. Among them are the virtual memory (paging file), hibernating file (hiberfil.sys), and system restore and shadow copies (and this is a HUGE one). -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "jereko73" wrote in message ... I just had a computer built w/ Vista Home Premium. After loading my music, pictures and other files from my other computer it says that I am using 80 GB of memory. I only loaded just over 30 GB of files. What happened to the other 50 or so GB? I looked through all the files to make sure there were not double copies, etc. and looked at program files and all users files. Nowhere do I see files adding up to nearly 80 GB. Any idea what happened to my memory?
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October 21st 07, 11:21 PM
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Hi,
Not easily, as there are thousands and thousands of files/folders to look at. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "jereko73" wrote in message ... Hi - Thanks for the reply. Is there a way for me to see my drive space allocation without having to go through all of the files on my computer? C:\ drive properties shows me how much drive space is used but not file types and how much space they are consuming. Eric "Rick Rogers" wrote: Hi, To be clear, it's drive space and not memory. Memory is the amount of physical and virtual ram used/installed on a system. C:\ is your hard drive volume used for storage of data. There are many things that can take up space. Among them are the virtual memory (paging file), hibernating file (hiberfil.sys), and system restore and shadow copies (and this is a HUGE one). -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "jereko73" wrote in message ... I just had a computer built w/ Vista Home Premium. After loading my music, pictures and other files from my other computer it says that I am using 80 GB of memory. I only loaded just over 30 GB of files. What happened to the other 50 or so GB? I looked through all the files to make sure there were not double copies, etc. and looked at program files and all users files. Nowhere do I see files adding up to nearly 80 GB. Any idea what happened to my memory?
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October 22nd 07, 12:20 AM
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C Drive Memory
Yeah, it seems like I've been through most of them, haha. Thanks anyway.
Eric "Rick Rogers" wrote: Hi, Not easily, as there are thousands and thousands of files/folders to look at. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "jereko73" wrote in message ... Hi - Thanks for the reply. Is there a way for me to see my drive space allocation without having to go through all of the files on my computer? C:\ drive properties shows me how much drive space is used but not file types and how much space they are consuming. Eric "Rick Rogers" wrote: Hi, To be clear, it's drive space and not memory. Memory is the amount of physical and virtual ram used/installed on a system. C:\ is your hard drive volume used for storage of data. There are many things that can take up space. Among them are the virtual memory (paging file), hibernating file (hiberfil.sys), and system restore and shadow copies (and this is a HUGE one). -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "jereko73" wrote in message ... I just had a computer built w/ Vista Home Premium. After loading my music, pictures and other files from my other computer it says that I am using 80 GB of memory. I only loaded just over 30 GB of files. What happened to the other 50 or so GB? I looked through all the files to make sure there were not double copies, etc. and looked at program files and all users files. Nowhere do I see files adding up to nearly 80 GB. Any idea what happened to my memory?
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