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Where my disk space went
I know that using an 80Gb hard disk for Vista was likely to lead to space problems, but what I hadn’t realised was how much space I could have saved by running the Disk Cleanup wizard.
I spent about an hour last night going through my folders trying to find the missing GB that I couldn’t account for. Not having had much luck, I gave the Disk Cleanup wizard a go.
What a discovery. 10.7Gb had been used for ‘System queued Windows Error Reporting’. I’m guessing that’s memory dumps, and with 2GB of RAM that probably doesn’t mean that many crashes. It’s still a huge amount of space and has a lot to do with the constant warning of low space in the Computer window.
I also had 6.29GB of temporary files and a thumbnails file of 1.78GB.
Leaving thumbnails aside, I’ve managed to free 19.5GB of space. A quarter of the disk.
The moral of the story: Run Disk Cleanup on a regular basis
ha ha nice moral though! so does it useful for xp as well?
posted-by caleb meyer | September 10, 2009 11:51 PM
It's saved space for me with Windows XP but never quite as much as 19.5GB!
posted-by Tim Smith | September 11, 2009 10:02 AM
I have a HP Pavilion computer, 200 gigabyte hard disk space, 512 ram. I did have 160 gigabytes free space all of the time. Now every day I lose about 5 to 10 gigabytes a day.
posted-by aleazer reilly | September 15, 2009 12:05 PM
Use CCleaner instead, it cleans everything either when you log off or manually. Most people wouldn't have 19.5 gigs to delete very often.
posted-by Mark | September 18, 2009 9:30 PM