Re: Hard Disk Free Space gradually shrinking

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From: Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP\) (user_at_#notme.com)
Date: 12/22/04 

Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 21:20:32 -0800

Pay no attention to the post by Carch in this thread...some folks just don't
care how much trouble their stupid pranks might cause the unsuspecting
novices who might read their posts.

Two possibilities, one, if you have Hibernation turned on, this file will
grow progressively, thus shrinking free space. If you don't use the
Hibernate feature, go to Control Panel, open Display, go to the Screen Saver
tab, click the Power button under Monitor power, go to the Hibernate tab,
remove the check from Enable hibernation, click apply and ok.

There other possibility is a hidden folder, will hidden unless you have
unhidden system folders in Explorer, System Volume Information. This folder
contains the System Restore information for that particular XP applet and
will grow the file by the amount specified for it, the default is 12% of
your disk space. You should not turn this feature off as it is a good first
line of defense. If you suddenly see a problem, you can take system
settings back to a time prior to when the issue began and see if that
resolves the issue.

Nonetheless, the above is probably the reason for what you are seeing. 

-- 
Michael Solomon MS-MVP
Windows Shell/User
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"Oniket" <Oniket@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:AC8E7C78-45DC-4BE6-9830-EC7ACEEF1686@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> I have windows XP Pro, 384MB Ram, 10GB Hard disk. I did a cleaning of my
> hard disk sometime ago and my free HD space was 6.70GB at that time.
> What I  noticed isthat the free space has been shrinking slowly each day
> and now it stands at 6.54GB, that is about 160MB less, if my math is 
> correct.
> I haven't installed any software (except for a couple that requires less 
> than
> a couple of MB), have been cleaning my disk regularly. WHere did this 
> space
> go to? I can't figure out. And it is an ongoing proces. Any help would be
> very much appreciated. Thanks in advance
>
> Oniket
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