Vista disk compression

Brendan Bubb. Another thing to look for is iTunes, especially when using it for podcasts. Have you ever gotten that little bang '! I did a WinDirStat session and recovered about 18 gigs of space from orphaned podcast downloads. This was over the span of about a year and half of podcast listening via iTunes so I keep a closer eye on it now October 21, Wow Scott - unbelievable.

Nearly was about to start paving my machine this weekend. These tips just got me back 70 GB. Absolutely crazy - Thanks! Ed Blankenship. Yeps, got back around 17GB! Who would have imagine thanks pal.. Lots to learn from you here. Take care. Net file you ever launched on your computer in up to 4 versions. A major pain for developpers, and maybe a big pain for ASP. Net servers with many web sites on it. Anyone knows HOW to move this to another partition? Great article - saved me som gig's too.

Maybe you know about this problem then, because I haven't had any luck googling it or asking about in MS's newsgroups: Due to company policy, my "Documents" folder gets relocated to a folder on our SBS server.

As far as I can tell, my only option if want to include these files in my Vista search index is to make these files offline accessible. My problem is, that my main drive is a fairly small 70Gig Regards Jesper Hauge. Oddly enough, my disk space usage went up after the Disk Cleanup phase by. But the 82 GB I got from the rest more than made up for it. October 22, Alexis Machine. Has multiple graph views including a tree map , generates all kinds of interesting reports largest, oldest, temp, and duplicate files just to start.

WinDirStat is free, and free is always nice. My ultimate tool for cleaning up my hds is sequoiaview. It creates a visual representation of all files on your harddisc. It makes it super easy to trace large files. I prefer just three power states: sleeping, on or hibernate. Why would you ever use off? October 23, Now choose 'Reliability Monitor' in the left-hand pane. Below the graph is a system stability report that lists each of the most recent events and failures for you. Event Viewer helps you identify any processes that may be failing and introducing delays into the system.

To access it, click 'Start', then right-click 'Computer' and choose 'Manage', then opt to continue. This launches the Computer Management console. Now select 'Event Viewer', followed by 'Windows Logs'. Select one of these logs to see each recorded event. These events are provided in order, with the most recent one appearing first. Any errors are flagged for your attention with an icon showing a white cross on a red background, while warnings are illustrated with a yellow icon.

Right-click an event and choose 'Event Properties'. If you turn your computer off instead of using hibernation mode, you can disable this feature to free up lots of space. When performing a Disk Cleanup, you have the option to compress your hard drive. We strongly recommend users do not compress their hard drives or compress their old files. Windows XP, Vista, and 7 users can also reduce the default space utilized by Windows System Restore, gaining several gigabytes of hard drive space.

See the steps below in customizing this feature. Window and Windows XP keep all the necessary files needed to uninstall any updates installed on your computer. But you may want to compress only those files instead of an entire drive.

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