Re: Extra-Hidden "hidden" files?

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Are any Norton products installed? If yes are you using Norton Protected
Storage

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. On your drive
5% 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%,

To investigate how you are using hard disk space you need to make sure that
you can see all files. Go to Start, Control Panel, Folder Options, View,
Advanced Settings and verify that the box before "Show hidden files and
folders" is checked and "Hide protected operating system files " is
unchecked. You may need to scroll down to see the second item. You should
also make certain that the box before "Hide extensions for known file types"
is not checked. Next in Windows Explorer make sure View, Details is selected
and then select View, Choose Details and check before Name, Type, Total
Size, and Free Space.

You still will not see the System Volume Information folder.
How to Gain Access to the System Volume Information Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;309531

FileSize -a useful tool for use with Windows Explorer when investigating how
disk space is being used.
http://markd.mvps.org/

The download link is not obvious. Click the here in the two sentences of the
web page accessed through the link above. "I can't count the number of times
someone has asked for this. So here is a module you can install that shows a
Folder Size column in Explorer."

To increase you free space on your C select Start, All Programs,
Accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp, More Options, System Restore and
remove all but the latest System Restore points? Restore points can be quite
large.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England

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<JeffHCross@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1164653999.890820.103550@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I apologize in advance if this has been asked before, I looked around
but didn't come across an answer.

Last night I was installing a program and noticed that my C:\ drive
space is suddenly very low. My C:\ drive is a 45 GB partition of an 80
GB drive. I deleted some unnecessary files, but I'm noticing some
disagreement between programs.

If I right click on C: in My Computer, it says I've used 29.9 gigs,
with 15.2 free. Partition Magic says 30.6 used with 15.6 free, but
that's fairly close to the margin of error, so I'm not too concerned.

However: I've turned on "Show System Folders" and "Show Hidden Files",
and yet when I highlight every file in my C:\ drive and go to
Properties, it says the size is 20.7 gigs.

WinDirStat actually shows both values. When I'm selecting the drive as
the one I wish to have scanned, it says that the C:\ drive has 45 GB
total, with 15.2 free. But when I actually run the filescan, it only
comes up with 20.5 GB of files.

(( Quick Note: I discovered it wasn't including my System Restore data
in the count, so that added another 3.3 gigs. I'm still only at 24.0
GB though ))

Any idea where my missing gigs could be?



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