windows vista question - SV650.org

11-05-08, 07:48 PM

Ive recently got this new laptop and Ive noticed that there is alot of hard disk taken up already and theres virtually nothing on the PC? what would be using all this disk space? the HDD is partitioned 120gig split into 100/20 the 20 is a back up of the system and the 100 is saying 63gig free? so what is using 37 gig? i was looking for the system restore slider so i could turn it down abit but i cant seem to find it on vista? any ideas on how to save HDD space?

tigersaw · 11-05-08, 08:18 PM

Umm well I upgraded my vista to XP (torrent special edition) and the machine now really flies compared to grinding along as before.

11-05-08, 08:53 PM

That would be Vista's System Restore allocating disk space. By default, it's set to 20Gb minimum (by MS)... manufacturers can, and often do increase this.

Add to this the pagefile (typically 2gb), and the hibernation file (equal to RAM minimum).

You can safely adjust it, if you know where you're looking. Right click the drive, disk clean-up, "System Restore & Shadow Copies", clean up.

11-05-08, 10:18 PM

how do i lower the system restore? 20gig is huge!

11-05-08, 07:48 PM	#1
kwak zzr Guest Posts: n/a	windows vista question Ive recently got this new laptop and Ive noticed that there is alot of hard disk taken up already and theres virtually nothing on the PC? what would be using all this disk space? the HDD is partitioned 120gig split into 100/20 the 20 is a back up of the system and the 100 is saying 63gig free? so what is using 37 gig? i was looking for the system restore slider so i could turn it down abit but i cant seem to find it on vista? any ideas on how to save HDD space?

11-05-08, 08:18 PM	#2
tigersaw Member Mega Poster Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Llanwrtyd Wells Powys Posts: 1,146	Re: windows vista question Umm well I upgraded my vista to XP (torrent special edition) and the machine now really flies compared to grinding along as before.

11-05-08, 08:53 PM	#3
Baph Guest Posts: n/a	Re: windows vista question That would be Vista's System Restore allocating disk space. By default, it's set to 20Gb minimum (by MS)... manufacturers can, and often do increase this. Add to this the pagefile (typically 2gb), and the hibernation file (equal to RAM minimum). You can safely adjust it, if you know where you're looking. Right click the drive, disk clean-up, "System Restore & Shadow Copies", clean up.

11-05-08, 10:18 PM	#4
kwak zzr Guest Posts: n/a	Re: windows vista question how do i lower the system restore? 20gig is huge!

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