Re: Disk Space Low?

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Be sure to read the other replies - it's good to get second, third,
.... opinions in these areas. *Especially* when my opinion was the
first one!

If you right-click on 'My Computer' and select Properties, you
should get a window labelled "System Properties" with seven tabs.
This gives you a few ways to mess things up :-) Big thing to be
aware of: all the screens I'm talking about have Cancel buttons!!

1. Advanced tab. Press the Settings button in the Performance box.
Choose Advanced, and there's a button to change Virtual Memory. It
can go on any drive, looks like, and a frequently mentioned size is
1.5 times your RAM. (This doesn't make sense to me; I think less RAM
needs more swap.) Mine is set that way, but I don't remember doing
that. Usually I let Windows manage it. And I don't really think you
need to mess with it :-)

Maybe I did set that. I have heard that a fixed swap file size is
more efficient - less overhead, and it won't fragment. In that case,
the size I chose was the one Windows had chosen before I got there.

2.System Restore tab. Highlight a drive and press the settings tab
and be sorry... I have discovered that if you turn off, say the D:
drive, you also lose all prior restore points on the C: drive. This
can be bad if you do it when you were about to need one of those
restore points :-( Remember the Cancel button!!

The Recycle Bin has its own settings. Just right click on its icon
and there are tabs for global settings and for each drive's
settings. If you set "Use one setting..." you can't change the
individual drive settings.

Whew. That's probably more than enough for now.

Gino

Larry Jordan <LarryJordan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:877883E8-4A2A-4DC6-B4D5-D6BF66C0BCF4@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Thank you very much Gene,

How do I find and change that swap file and what is re reccomended
size? As for the second suggestion: I constantly empty the
recycle ben. I will look into re-partitioning the drives. I've
never tried to do anything like that before. I've used
application mover to clear some space, but is is quickly reclaimed
by something.

Thanks again,

Larry

"Gene E. Bloch" wrote:

Larry Jordan <LarryJordan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:C97EEA52-5640-4457-8DC6-5735862C399D@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:

I have a VAIO MCE with 200G. 13 on C and the rest on D Drive.
Problem is that C drive constantly fills up. I do not record
TV, I constantly have to move something to do so I don't get
the message. I will get do the 400m range. Most all of the
prgrams I ;use are on D drive. If I manage to free it up to a
gig by moving a program it fills back up in less than a day.

Does any one know what causes this? What can I do to stop the
space usage? Any help will be appreciated.

Probably 13 GB isn't really enough for what you're doing.

Other possibilities exist.

1. Your swap file (virtual memory file) allocation is too big.

2. You are deleting files to the Recycle Bin and not emptying it
often enough, so you don't really free up any storage. Or you
have allocated too much space to the Recycle Bin.

3. Your System Restore disk space allocation is too big.

I would not recommend reducing the third one (System Restore) too
much - I have been burned by not having a good Restore Point
because of that.

However, there is one idea for a solution that I think is good.
Resize your partitions so that C: is around 20 or 25 GB (mine is
50 GB with 18 used!).

Don't use Windows XP's tools - they will wipe out your
partitions. There are third party products available that can
non-destructively change partition sizes.

I have used Partition Magic with good success in times past;
there are others. Read current reviews to be sure you get a safe
one.

Note: the process is NOT fast! And there are no free products,
AFAIK.

HTH,
Gino

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