re: Harddrive Space constantly disappearing
Friday, October 9, 2009 at 5:23 am
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Charlie Hadden
(1209 messages posted)
Bottom line is you are using way to small of a hard drive for your system.
But to you issue and causes. One of the largest absorbers of space are updates. Then
there is the page file. In days go by they used to tell people to set this at a static
size of 2.5 times the size of your memory. That no longer is a valid thing to do
nor because of the different way things operate and the way memory is utilized is
that a valid size.Hard drive space is too cheep to go that way. I have an old drive
that I threw in just for the Page file to use all by itself.
There are many things that take up space that you never see, even with view all files
turned on. Another example is the space used for the recovery. That grows rapidly.
Think about every time you make a restore point. Also this can be managed manually,
but be cautious. Don't become the guy that makes this too small or turns it off then
cry later when you don't have a restore point to go to after a crash. Small out of
date drives are every where and cheep. When you can buy a nice sized new drive for
$50 and run a second or third drive for different things, there is little excuse
for these things to happen. Vista runs nicely if you give it room to breathe.
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