Is Vista Eating Up Your Hard Drive Space?

my god thank you soo much. Vista was taking up 45gb of space on my system.

Thanks alot. That saves me buying another hard drive. I saved 44GB of space.

sweet, thank you. It was using almost 50 gigs of my hard drive space… and I have never used system restore, ever.

i have a tb of storage, and for mine its max storage was 140 gb. WOW. I was wondering why i was using 290 gb’s. I wonder what other junk Vista is saving!

This freed up 14GB’s of space. i lowered it to 2GB’s. thank you.

thank you very much i freed up 21GB now im off to tell everyone i know with vista to do this. highly recomended thanks again

Thank you, i was wonder whay was happening to my harddrive space. saved me 40GB!

Dude thank you i was wondering why my harddrive was so low on space and i just got my comp

Thanks alot! I just saved over 33GB.

Tell me if you get a error, and no shadow info appears, would the shadow space be the issue?

You are my hero! I just freed 65GB on my hard drive! Every single day my hard drive was losing 2-5GB.

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thanks a lot my vista was eating 500 GB of space

LOL! LOL!

It freed up about 55gig of my hard thank you..

Hi!

Thanks a lot for the great tip man! Cleared up about 10GB in a matter of a few seconds! Am eternally greateful to you buddy!
Do update info about such vista tweaks!

It’s doesn’t work :(((( ( error ) like Joe

Thanks so much for this, was wondering where nearly 60GB of my 500GB drive disappeared to, this fixed it

(A)
1. Click Start button.
2. Type clean in the Start Search box.
3. Click Disk Cleanup from the search results list.
4. Select Files from All Users on this computer option.
5. Disk Cleanup will perform calculation to determine how much space it can free. Once done, click on More Options tab.
6. Under the section of System Restore and Shadow Copies, click on Clean up… button.
(B)

Also System restore in Vista takes huge space to store restore points. This is also Windows’ regular process. Kindly guide this customer to turn off system restore or to limit the space for system restore :-

1. Right click on Computer then select Properties.
2. In the left pane, click System Protection.
3. You will see a list of hard disk drives installed on your system, with checkboxes to the left. The check boxes with tick indicate that System Restore is on for that particular volume. So to to turn off System Protection for a hard disk, clear (untick) the check box next to the disk.

Just another way of doing it…

Thanks!

Thank you VERY, VERY much!! This is the 4th time I’ve restored my laptop back to factory because I ran out of harddrive space within weeks of doing to restore. As soon as I was done restoring there was 18.5GB used, I checked it again in about 15hours and it showed there was 88.5GB used and I hadn’t installed anything or added anything. So I followed you instructions above then checked again and I was back down to only 18.5GB used. Wow that was 70GB lost to Vista!! Again thank you so much!!

Whoa, thanks so much, that just saved me 17 GB!

Thank you SOOOO much!!! You are a life saver! I had lost over 350 GB of hard drive space and Dell support told me it was a virus.

Hi,
I bought a new thinkpad in Jan 08. Vista started eating 104 GB. I resized my shadow files to 2gb max. That bought me 13 gb. Then a patch came out around march that seemed to help and I again had 40 gb free. I’m only using roughly 50gb for all my programs & files. Slowly, the memory loss on my hard drive has begun to creep up again. What is wrong with this operating system? Please DO NOT tell me to defrag, cleanup disk, or reset shadow files. None work long-term. Plus I defrag every week. I clean up me disk almost daily now.
AAACHH!
I would appreciate some insight.
Thanks

cheers m8 i saved 40 gb ure lucky charm for coming up with this

THANK YOU VERY MUCH OHMYGOD.
THIS SAVED 22GB in My system:))

well. i’m just very very happy.:) thanks alot!

Thanks a lot i save 30 GB in my system

Thanks,
Now my laptop has 10GB free instead of 450MB

useful information

vista is using 70 odd GB for shawdow copy and system restore. I’d prefer to leave this on there considering i’ve used system restore numerous times, including when vista wouldn’t boot.

when i will, thank you