Rollback RX Pro??
http://www.rollbacksoftware.com/
It is likely that an allocation of 12% has been made to System Restore
on your C partition which is over generous. I would reduce it to 700
mb. Right click your My Computer icon on the Desktop and select System
Restore. Place the cursor on your C drive select Settings but this
time find the slider and drag it to the left until it reads 700 mb and
exit. When you get to the Settings screen click on Apply and OK and
exit.
Another default setting on a large drive which could be wasteful is
that for temporary internet files especially if you do not store
offline copies on disk. The default allocation is 3% of drive.
Depending on your attitude to offline copies you could reduce this to
1% or 2%. In Internet Explorer select Tools, Internet Options,
General, Temporary Internet Files, Settings to make the change. At the
same time look at the number of days history is held.
The default allocation for the Recycle Bin is 10 % of drive. Change to
5%, which should be sufficient. In Windows Explorer place the cursor
on your Recycle Bin, right click and select Properties, Global and
move the slider from 10% to 5%. However, try to avoid letting it get
too full as if it is full and you delete a file by mistake it will
bypass the Recycle Bin and be gone for ever.
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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Stourport, England
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<melvin.soh@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1184298215.925349.31910@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
> On Jul 11, 7:54 pm, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I....@fly.com> wrote:
>> <melvin....@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:1184147941.523649.229470@o11g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>
>>
>> > Windows XP
>> > Norton XP Antivirus 2006
>> > 70 GB hard drive
>>
>> > Problem:
>> > My Computer shows: Total Hard Drive Size = 70 GB; Free Space =
>> > 21.6GB
>> > Clicking on Properties of ALL files on C: (include hidden, system
>> > files etc.) yields = 15.9GB
>>
>> > Remedies tried:
>> > I have tried running:
>> > Chkdsk
>> > Defrag
>> > Antivirus
>> > Ad-Aware
>> > moved the system restore file size down to 700MB
>> > Emptied Trash Can
>> > Reading up on various posts on Google Groups
>>
>> > All to no avail. I keep a very simple computer with no partitions
>> > whatsoever. This problem is a little unlike others that have been
>> > posted, i'm losing more than HALF my hard drive. Please help.
>>
>> Is your disk fully partitioned or do you have unpartitioned space?
>> The command diskmgmt.msc, when typed into the Start / Run box,
>> will tell you.
>>
>> Do you really know what you're storing where? Either of these
>> tools will tell you:
>> DriveUse:http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/freezip/freeware/index.html
>> Bullet Proof Folder sizes:http://www.foldersizes.com/
>
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>
>
> Hi Pegasus,
>
>
> Diskmgmt.msc indicates the following:
> Layout: Partition
> Type: Basic
> File System: NTFS
> Status: Healthy
> Capacity: 70.09GB
> Free Space: 21.66 GB
> % Free: 30%
> Fault Tolerance: 0%
> Overhead: 0%
>
> Drive Use indicates the following:
> C: 16326MB
> C:\RRbackups - Access is denied
> C:\ System Volume Information - Access is denied
>
> Drive Use shows hard drive usage similar to that when i just right
> click on properties on ALL files in C:
>
> Any idea on the discrepency?
>
> Gerry,
>
> Yes trust me i've done all you suggested already and i'm only using
> Norton Antivirus and not any of the other Norton programs.
>
>
> Thank you both for your time and help.
>
>
>
> Regards,
> M. Soh
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