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• System Restore fills hard drive

  I used Windows XP Home Edition for years, with no problems.  However, in recent weeks, I noticed my hard drive filling up at a rate of almost 1 G new data per day.  I didn't add all the new programs, so I suspected a Virus or a Trojan.  I use Avast Anti-virus and keep SpyBot and SpywareBlaster running and updated.  I ran full scans with these programs and found no problem.  I even downloaded a copy of AVG anti-virus and done a scan with it problems... No..  Then, I came across a program called 'TreeSize' who did a real good job to tell me what's really on the hard drive.  BIINGO!  It seems that my system restore file increases by nearly 1 G per day.  I had about 2 months, control in the system restore points, so I changed the settings about 25 g and lost most of my restore points... AND, my hard disk capacity has increased almost 20 g.

  Windows has changed something in the month last about restoring the operating system?  I've never seen this phenomenon until just last month.  Now that I know what is eating my hard disk space, I can recover easily, but I think something has changed recently to cause this.  The ONLY thing I added to my files in the month were updates of Windows.

  Even after many years, I have only about 20 G on my hard drive, so it was unusual when I started to see the volume of data up to 40 G.  This just started about 3 or 4 weeks... and I did not install new programs.

  Now that I put the restore settings to 25G, I saw no repetition of this 'growth' in the past 2 or 3 days... so time will tell if this fixed my "whim".

  As I said, you must set SR to 1 GB... No 25 GB.

  I guess the sentence I have in bold above means that you have a separate partition for your data.  You don't need restore the system monitor this partition (disc) at all.  Retrieves a few pieces of Bert K site linked in my previous post (emphasis added):

  • System Restore monitors changes to the system and saves the State of the system as a restore point.
  • System Restore does not restore user data or documents, so it will not cause users to lose their files, email, browsing history or Favorites.
  • System Restore monitors and restores a set of file system and application, the States of these files before the change of the archiving system. System Restore also records a snapshot of the registry (Note: some current registry values will persist) and some dynamic system files.
  • Files that are monitored or excluded from the monitoring are specified in the file % windir%\system32\restore\Filelist.xml.
  • To restore a system, System Restore undoes file changes made to the files monitored, taking over the State of the file at a time of the restore point selected. It replaces the current registry with one registered for the selected restore point.

  If indeed you watched a "data disc" and it was the system restore on this drive that increased, it seems that if one of the applications, which stores the data on this disk does not respect the following recommendations:

  • To make sure that your application has the behavior desired after a restore, follow these steps:
    • Be sure to use the extensions compatible with those used in the Filelist.xml file binary application key to protect. For more information, see Monitoring of file Extensions.
    • Do not use controlled types of extensions for files modified by the user. For example, if you name the file of personal data of a user using the .ini extension, the user may lose work because of a system restore.

• I am currently using Lightroom 4. I bought the IMac with the largest memory, but he has quickly filled. To conserve space on my computer, I bought a hard drive and I tried to get my lightroom back up there. (I don't know if I did it correctly or not

  I am currently using Lightroom 4. I bought the IMac with the largest memory, but he has quickly filled. To conserve space on my computer, I bought a hard drive and I tried to get my lightroom back up there. (I don't know if I did it correctly or not) Now, all my photos in Lightroom are "offline or missing", and I have no idea what to do next. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  I guess you mean not memory and disk space, you want to clear space on the internal drive. Is this correct?

  If you have moved your photos somehow (this is not a backup), please follow these instructions to reconnect photos in Lightroom. Adobe Lightroom - find folders and files moved or missing

  In addition, you must (it is obligatory) make real backups of your database catalog and photos, that means accurate identical copies, made by a method automated and placed on a different physical disk than the originals. Lightroom allows you to make backups of your files of catalog on a regular basis, it is an option under the catalog settings. To make backups of your photos, you need some third party software to do.

• Hi, I want to migrate Aperture library 3.6 to Lightroom and when I double click on Aperture App it won't open. I'm on OSX Yosemite 10.10.5 and I keep the nearly 200 gigabytes of photos on a hard drive that is separate so I can get to o

  Hi, I want to migrate thousands of images of Aperture library 3.6 to Lightroom and when I double click on Aperture App it won't open. I'm on OSX Yosemite 10.10.5 and I keep the nearly 200 gigabytes of photos on a separate hard drive so I can get more old photos looking at the content of the package and by copying and pasting in a recovery file, but it will be painful and very long. What do you suggest me? I thought that Aperture 3.6 was supposed to open at Yosemite or El Capitan? Thank you bripoppamac44

  and when I double click on the App opening, it does not open.

  What happens, when you try that? You get an error message? If so, what error?

  Opening 3.6 works well with Yosemite 10.10.5.

  d I keep the nearly 200 gigabytes of photos on a disc hard separated so I can get more old photos looking for the content of the package and by copying and pasting in a recovery file

  What is the file system on this disk? And how the player is connected?

• How can I remove old updates from windows to prevent their fill my hard drive?

  How can I remove old updates from windows to prevent their fill my hard drive?

  You don't want to. Otherwise, why would have installed their in the first place? They are updated for security. Thema alone.

• Hard drive fills up fast

  Original title: Decreases the memory:

  I have xt pro on my cmp - very little, other than IE8, Word, Excel. Nothing great. Be "topped up" several times with disc 'restore' since the performance was slowing down. Gradually, the HARD drive fills up: after the last reading memory 30 GB charging used; 10 GB free. I think that xp is only about 1 GB - what am I doing wrong?

  Ken

  Thanks for all the suggestions. Tried and thought about them, but made no difference. However, I found the answer:

  When you use the disc to 'restore' every time I was simply stack several operating systems on top of those already here. I have about a dozen versions or more I suspect No. 1 partition. This time, where do my last (I hope) restore today I paid more attention to writing when the options are available on the "formatting" the drive. Now, I completely formatted the Partition No. 1 (where I suspect that all versions of xp are kept) and pressed. Of course, the restoration has worked well and I now only ONE version of XP on my system. The display of 'properties' on the drive C: tells me now that I have less than 2 GB used and 28 GB FREE!

  Result?

  Thanks again for the suggestions - that made me think a little more deeply...

  Ken R

• My hard drive is filling up all the available space on my hard drive

  Original title: my drive is 'eat' himself!

  Something happens in my system which occupies all the available space on my hard drive.

  I deleted everything that I possible can, but as soon as I create a space that it disappears.

  There is apparently a function involving my e-mail archives or my installation "restore."

  Recreate the data but do not delete the file/data who is who replaces it.  What has

  happened in the past, but at that time, it was the result of my control one inadvertently

  email replication function... this time I got nothing done to cause this duplication of work.

  When it started to affect my system this time I looked for things to remove and found

  many of my emails in the "sent" folder had been duplicated.  I immediately removed all

  These duplicates and has acquired an important place but in a short period of time the

  disc had been filled again.

  I ran anti-virus (McAfee) and combating malicious programs (Malwarebytes) without finding

  anything that can be causing my problem.

  Thanks in advance for any help.

  Hello

  Try the methods provided following and check if that helps:

  Method 1:

  Try to run the disk cleanup tool and check if it helps:

  Description of the tool in Windows XP disk cleanup

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/310312

  Method 2:

  Read the following article and see if it helps

  Computer viruses: description, prevention, and recovery

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/129972

  Also check out the link and check if it helps:

  http://www.Microsoft.com/atwork/maintenance/speed.aspx

• Urgent please help: How can I find on what fills my hard drive?

  My drive C guard fills, and I don't know why.  Yesterday, I removed more than 40 GB of files and delete a lot more (I emptied the Recycle Bin).  In the last 4 hours, filled an another 30 GB and I'm now in the red zone (5 GB in the last twenty minutes!).  I only kept a very small Word document on the hard drive.

  It only started past recently, in the last two weeks or more.  I am on Windows Vista and I have McAfee.  I recently completed a full scan and nothing significant has come.

  I have only 5 GB on my C drive on the left, and there is nothing more that I can remove it.  How can I find out what does this and how do I that to solve this problem?

  Any emergency assistance will be greatly appreciated!

  Thank you.

  Free disk space
  Last updated 18/01/2014
   

  Content

  • To see how much space you have used and free
  • To see where the files are too much space
  • Disk Cleanup
  • System restore
  • Fix the basket
  • Fix temporary Internet files
  • Delete files in the system and the folder Temp of Service Profiles
  • Check the size of the swap file
  • Disable the hibernation
  • Compact the Windows databases use various
  • Delete the files updated by the Service Pack
  • Move your Documents
  • Remove saved files created by Photo Gallery
  • Which extends the size of the disk
  • Compress files
  • Turn off the low disk space warnings
  • Boost disk cleanup
   

  To see how much space you have used and free

  Start - All Programs - Accessories- Click with the right button on command prompt and choose run as administrator. Type (or copy and paste by clicking in the command prompt window and choose Paste).

  For the system drive

  WMIC volume where (DriveLetter = '% lecteur_systeme %') are legend, capacity, freespace List

  For all readers

  WMIC volume get/all, freespace, the ability, the legend

  If you want to store this info on your desktop

  WMIC /append:"%userprofile%\desktop\Free on disk space" volume get Caption, freespace format:htable

  To open double click on Free Disk Space on your desk or type

  Start "" "%userprofile%\desktop\Free report.HTML of disk space.

  Then come back here after cleaning and repeat these commands to see the difference.

  If for any reason, the wmic command does not work, use these two commands. Both take a lot of time.

  % Lecteur_systeme % - one defrag

  or

  dir %systemdrive%\*.*/a/s

   
  To see where the files are too much space
   
  It lists the number of files and the size of the folders on your drive. Each command is a subset, so you can run it better.
   
  Start - All Programs - Accessories - right on command prompt and choose run as administrator. Type (or copy and paste by clicking in the command prompt window and choose Paste).
   
   
  Then configure the command prompt. Right-click on the tab of the titlebar - Properties - Layout command prompt - and enter 1000 screen buffer size height and 43 (or 50) to Window Dimensions height. Change the color (color tab) and the police (police tab), if you want.
   
  To see the size of the folders in Documents, excluding images, video, or music files.
   

  for /f "Skip = 2 tokens = 3 ' set doc = A %%A in ('Reg query"HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders"/v"Personal"")

   

  for /f "usebackq tokens = 2 * delims =" %i IN ("dir"% doc"/ a/s ^ |") "." findstr/i/v "\/"^|findstr/l/v "photos video" ') @echo %j & echo. "

   
  To see the size of the folders in the music.
   

  for /f "Skip = 2 tokens = 4" %A in ('Reg query "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" /v 'My music' ") set Doc = A %

   

  for /f "usebackq tokens = 2 * delims =" %i IN ("dir"% doc"/ a/s ^ |") "." findstr/i/v "-/"') @echo %j & echo. "."

   

  To see the size of the image files.

   

  for /f "Skip = 2 tokens = 4" %A in (' Reg query "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" "My pictures" /v ") set Doc = A %

   

  for /f "usebackq tokens = 2 * delims =" %i IN ("dir"% doc"/ a/s ^ |") "." findstr/i/v "-/"') @echo %j & echo. "."

   

  To see the size of the files in the video.

   

  for /f "Skip = 2 tokens = 4" %A in ('Reg query "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" /v 'My videos' ") set Doc = A %

   

  for /f "usebackq tokens = 2 * delims =" %i IN ("dir"% doc"/ a/s ^ |") "." findstr/i/v "-/"') @echo %j & echo. "."

   

  To see the size of the files on the desktop.

   

  for /f "Skip = 2 tokens = 3 ' set doc = A %%A in ('Reg query"HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders"/v"Desktop"")

   

  for /f "usebackq tokens = 2 * delims =" %i IN ("dir"% doc"/ a/s ^ |") "." findstr/i/v "-/"') @echo %j & echo. "."

  To see the size of the files in the Windows folder.

   

  for /f "usebackq tokens = 2 * delims =" %i IN ("'%windir%' dir /a /s ^ |") "." findstr/i/v "-/"') @echo %j & echo. "."

   
  To see the size of the files in the Program Files folder.

   

  for /f "usebackq tokens = 2 * delims =" %i IN ("'%ProgramFiles%' dir /a /s ^ |") "." findstr/i/v "-/"') @echo %j & echo. "."

   

   

  Disk Cleanup
  To run Disk Cleanup, normal is to click with the right button on the drive in my computer (Start menu - computer), then Properties - general tab - Disk Cleanup button.
   
   
  Another way is menu Start - All Programs - Accessories - System - Disk Cleanup tools.
   
  Disk Cleanup can be started from the command line.
   

  Start - All Programs - Accessories - right on command prompt and choose run as administrator. Type (or copy and paste by clicking in the command prompt window and choose Paste).

   
  To make your primary drive.
   

  cleanmgr letter

   
  Choose which lead to do.
   

  Cleanmgr

   
  See the last section of this post to see how to performance of disk cleanup.

   System restore

  With disk cleanup displays above the Other Options tab. You can delete all but the last System Restore point and see if that is too much space.

  System Restore uses 15% of the space normally. Change click Start - All Programs - Accessories - right on command prompt and choose run as administrator. Type Regedit and navigate to

  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore\cfg

  Double click on DiskPercent and click on decimal and change the value to the desired percentage,

  You can change the command prompt.

  Start - All Programs - Accessories - right on command prompt and choose run as administrator. Type (or copy and paste by clicking in the command prompt window and choose Paste).

  To see the size of the system restore folder.

  You don't normally have access to this folder. You will need to take possession, allow administrators to permission, then the size of the query.

  takeown /f "%systemdrive%\System Volume Information" / a r d y

  ICACLS "%systemdrive%\System Volume Information" / grant administrators: f, t, c, q

  dir "%systemdrive%\System Volume Information" / a/s

  To see the current percentage

  Reg query "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore\cfg" /v DiskPercent

  It is in hexadecimal. The numbers are 0-9 and a-f. So 0xf is 15. 0x5 is 5, 0 x 9 is 9, 0xa is 10, 0 x 14 is 20.

  To set a different value.

  You can use decimal values to set. This affects 10% (in bold in the example and the last item in the line).

  Tracking Add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore\cfg" /v DiskPercent /t REG_DWORD /f /d 10

   
  To repair the system restore, file delete and restart the system restore.
    

  SC stop vss

  takeown /f "%systemdrive%\System Volume Information" / a r d y

  ICACLS "%systemdrive%\System Volume Information" / grant administrators: f, t, c, q

  e "%systemdrive%\System Volume Information" / q/s

  SC start vss

  Fix the basket

  Sometimes, files get lost in the trash. Remove the storage folders. It will be automatically re-created next time you delete a file or open the Recycle Bin. It will remove the trash and the files it contains for all users.

  Empty the trash.

  Start - All Programs - Accessories - right on command prompt and choose run as administrator. Type (or copy and paste by clicking in the command prompt window and choose Paste).

  To see the size of the files in the Recycle Bin

  It must have one or no files inside if you work. There should be a directory (folder) by user.

  dir % systemdrive%\$RECYCLE. BIN\ *. * /a /s

  To reset the trash

  e % systemdrive%\$RECYCLE. BIN/s/q

  Fix temporary Internet files

  Sometimes, files get lost in the temporary internet files folder. Delete the files. It will be automatically recreated the next time download you. It will remove the current user only.

  Start - All Programs - Accessories - right on command prompt and choose run as administrator. Type (or copy and paste by clicking in the command prompt window and choose Paste).

  To see the temporary internet files size empty files folder

  RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl, ClearMyTracksByProcess 8

  dir ' %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\ *.» "*" '%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStore\*.*' / a/s

  Then delete.

  Close Internet Explorer and the Explorer first. Some files may not remove at the moment, they can be deleted later.

  "%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files" del /s /q

  also the DOM store, similar to TIF.

  "%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStore" del /s /q

  So to see the new size.

  dir ' %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\ *.» "*" '%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStore\*.*' / a/s

   
  To see the size of the cache, type the following
   

  Start - All Programs - Accessories - right on command prompt and choose run as administrator. Type (or copy and paste by clicking in the command prompt window and choose Paste).

   

  Reg query /v "Settings\5.0\Cache\Content Software" CacheLimit valid

  Use the calculator to convert hexadecimal into decimal. Start the Calculator (Start - All Programs - Accessories - calculator) and choose the menu display - scientific, then the menu display - Hex. Enter the value returned above. Menu display - decimal. To convert windows units divide by 1024 for kilobytes, divide by 1024 megabytes.
   
  Located between 50 MB and 250 MB. You can use decimal here. The unit is expressed in kilobytes. Here it is 250 megabytes (250 000 x 1024 bytes)
   

  Add tracking 'Software Settings\5.0\Cache\Content' v CacheLimit valid /t Reg_DWord /d 250000 f
  

    

  Delete files in the system and the folder Temp of Service Profiles

  The system temp folder is only used when no one connects. It is rarely used but never cleaned. Some services have their own temporary folder which is also cleaned.

  Start - All Programs - Accessories - right on command prompt and choose run as administrator. Type (or copy and paste by clicking in the command prompt window and choose Paste).

  To the list

  dir c:\windows\temp C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Local\Temp C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\Temp/a/s

  To remove

  del C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Local\Temp\*.* C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\Temp\*.* c:\windows\temp\*.*/s/f/q

  Check the size of the swap file

  As a rule generally you want to your swap file slightly larger than the amount of memory that you have. It develops automatically but spread automatically. If you use hungery memory programs as this video editing should be bigger. If too big you can reduce and rush of space can be moved to another drive.

  Start - All Programs - Accessories - right on command prompt and choose run as administrator. Type (or copy and paste by clicking in the command prompt window and choose Paste).

  To see what was your use

  WMIC pagefile get List

  To see the size of the file on disk

  dir /a c:\pagefile.sys

  To change the size or change the road see change the size of virtual memory in Start - Help and Support.

   

  Disable the hibernation

  The file shows up is the same size of installed memory. If this is not the case, turn off the computer in hibernation and save a lot of disk space.

  Start - All Programs - Accessories - right on command prompt and choose run as administrator. Type (or copy and paste by clicking in the command prompt window and choose Paste).

  To see if it is on

  If the file will be found. If off the file won't be there.

  dir %systemdrive%\hiberfil.sys /a

  To turn off

  powercfg-h off

  Make a u-turn

  powercfg-h on

  Compact the Windows databases use various

  You can compact the various databases that Windows uses. This is the Windows Update, Windows Search, and certificates of security, Windows Mail, Windows Contacts, Windows, Windows Live and Internet Explorer ver 10 applications calendar.

  Close Windows Mail and Internet Explorer. Wait a minute for Internet Explorer release locks of sound files.

  See how much space taking up type which is below and note the total size (because it scrolls away).

  Start - All Programs - Accessories- Click with the right button on command prompt and choose Run As Administrator. Type (or copy and paste by clicking in the command prompt window and choose Paste).

  dir c:\*.edb c:\*.msmessagestore c:\WebCacheV*.dat c:\catdb/a/s

  Then at compact

  SC stop wuauserv

  stop bits SC

  SC stop wsearch

  SC stop cryptsvc

  for c:\ /r %A in (*.edb *.msmessagestore WebCacheV*.dat catdb *.) do esentutl.exe /p "%A" / o

  for c:\ /r %A in (*.edb *.msmessagestore WebCacheV*.dat catdb *.) do esentutl.exe /d "%A".

  SC start cryptsvc

  SC start wsearch

  SC start bits

  SC start wuauserv

  Then to delete some temporary files.

  del c:\*.integ.raw c:\TEMPDFRG*.edb/s

  To see the new size and compare it to the old size

  dir c:\*.edb c:\*.msmessagestore c:\WebCacheV*.dat c:\catdb/a/s

  If a program has a file open, you can use this procedure to find out which program.

  openfiles/local on

  Reset

  openfiles/query /v | findstr /i "WebCacheV [0-9] *------catdb \.edb \.msmessagestore .dat".

  Delete the files updated by the Service Pack

  See how much space taking up type which is below and note the total size (because it scrolls away). Also, note that the total is higher than it actually is.

  This will remove the ability to uninstall service packs.

  According to the service pack that Windows was provided with you can have both, one or none of these two files.

  Start - All Programs - Accessories - right on command prompt and choose run as administrator. Type (or copy and paste by clicking in the command prompt window and choose Paste).

  dir /a /s c:\Windows\WinSxS

  Then type

  Vsp1cln.exe

  COMPCLN.exe

  To see the new size and compare it to the old size

   

  c:\windows\WinSxS dir /a /s

  Move your Documents

  If you have another disk, you can move the documents folder to it.

  Click with the right button on your Documents (or pictures, etc.) Office, videos, Contacts,) the tab file - Properties - location - move.

   

  Delete the thumbnail and icon Caches

  These files can contain thumbnails or icons of files deleted a long time ago. The files will be recreated if necessary.

  Start - All Programs - Accessories - right on command prompt and choose run as administrator. Type (or copy and paste by clicking in the command prompt window and choose Paste). The desktop and the start menu will disappear briefly.

  To see the size

  dir "% userprofile%\AppData\Local\*.db" "% userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\*.db" /a

  then remove

  Taskkill /im explorer.exe/f
  attrib - r s h '% userprofile%\AppData\Local\*.db '.
  attrib - r s h '% userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\*.db '.
  del "% userprofile%\AppData\Local\*.db".
  del "% userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\*.db".
  Explorer

  to check the new size

  dir "% userprofile%\AppData\Local\*.db" "% userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\*.db" /a

   

  Remove saved files created by Photo Gallery

   

  Photo Gallery Windows makes a copy of any file that you are editing. Click Start - All Programs - Accessories - (or press the Windows key + R). Type

  Images of the hull: original

  Delete the ones you don't want.

  Which extends the size of the disk

  If all the space on the disk has not all been used it is possible to extend your drive.

  Start - All Programs - Accessories - right on command prompt and choose run as administrator. Type (or copy and paste by clicking in the command prompt window and choose Paste).

  DiskPart

  then type

  Select the c volume:

  Then type to see in size

  the list volume

  then (it will work if possible or not as appropriate)

  extend

  type to display the new size

  the list volume

  then type exit

  output

  If you want advice on the extension of the partition type the following and paste the result back

  DiskPart

  list disk

  the list volume

  Select disk 0

  partition from the list

  Select disk 1

  partition from the list

  output

  To copy the final text right click in the window - Mark , then select the text and press enter.
   

  Compress files

  There are two ways to compress files in windows. Zip files and built-in file compression. It's built-in file compression. For more information on compression type zip in Start - Help and Support .

  Photos, music and video are already compressed. They can get larger if Windows tries to compress it any further. Also usually a bad idea to compress system files.

  If you have files of worksheet they can very well be compressed. If you have files, installation files, they can also be good candidates. Web pages are also good candidates.

  In Windows Explorer, blue file names means Tablet (it is the file system compression not aka zip files compressed files). Green filename means Encrypted.

  To disable file names colored, in Explorer - Tools menu (Alt + T)- display tab and then clear the check box for Show encrypted or compressed NTFS in color .

  Windows compression, encryption and security to work for the most part by applying attributes to a folder and the files in the folder inherit the folder.

  If you have all the files appropriate for compression, find them in solution, made Explorer right click - Properties - general -Advanced button tab - Compress contents to save disk space. Choose to apply to all files and folders when asked.

  To use a command line to compress the files in the Favorites folder.

  Start - All Programs - Accessories - right on command prompt and choose run as administrator. Type (or copy and paste by clicking in the command prompt window and choose Paste).

  compact/c /s:"%userprofile%\Favorites." *

  Put in Favorites to compress files added

  compact/c /s:"%userprofile%\Favorites.

  To view the details of the compression of the Favorites folder

  Compact '% userprofile%\Favorites\*.* '.

   

   

  Turn off the low disk space warnings

  To disable the function to display the disk low space warnings.

  Start - All Programs - Accessories - right on command prompt and choose run as administrator. Type (or copy and paste by clicking in the command prompt window and choose Paste).

  Tracking Add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer" v "NoLowDiskSpaceChecks" /t REG_DWORD /d 1 f

  gpupdate/force

   

  Boost disk cleanup

  • Operation of disk cleanup
  • Schedule disk cleanup
  • Creating custom cleaners

  To see a list of products of cleaning disk cleanup.

  Start - All Programs - Accessories - right on command prompt and choose run as administrator. Type (or copy and paste by clicking in the command prompt window and choose Paste).

  @echo. & @echo list of cleaners&@echo = & FOR /F "usebackq tokens = 8 delims =-' %i IN ('reg query 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches'") @echo %i

  
   List of cleaners
   ================
   Active Setup Temp Folders
   Content Indexer Cleaner
   Downloaded Program Files
   Hibernation File
   Internet Cache Files
   Memory Dump Files
   Microsoft_Event_Reporting_2.0_Temp_Files
   Offline Pages Files
   Old ChkDsk Files
   Previous Installations
   Recycle Bin
   Setup Log Files
   System error memory dump files
   System error minidump files
   Temporary Files
   Temporary Setup Files
   Temporary Sync Files
   Thumbnail Cache
   Upgrade Discarded Files
   Windows Error Reporting Archive Files
   Windows Error Reporting Queue Files
   Windows Error Reporting System Archive Files
   Windows Error Reporting System Queue Files
   WLX Thumbnail Cache
  

   

• hard drive fill by itself

  I just bought a hp a6750f with 750 GB HDD 8 GB memory, quad processor works great, but it fills slowly with stuff 2 or 3 concerts a day, I think it's to get it online, CV Tech took control and just delete the temporary files, that is not the problem... I restored to factory settings and now 3 weeks later there are 120 exhausted concerts... I have nothing except a printer on this computer whence all this?  Help, please...

  Probably that Vista in system restore, is set to use a very high % of hard drive space. Most users to be able to limit it manually.

   

   

  Guide HERE 

   

  And HERE

• My hard drive filled

  My hard drive is full but not because I downloaded large files, and I can't identify it as waste is that fills the disk. How can I clear the space?

  You will see in my previous two answers that everything seems fine, except that I have no idea how the issues have been brought to rights.

  I had run Defragmenter a few days ago, but it made no difference. I was about to follow your advice about system restore etc when I discovered that it was apparently useless.

  My only concern is now that, as I have no idea why the problem arose, I also have no idea how to do to stop this happening again!

  Nevertheless, thank you very much for the advice very detailed.

• I get the message of low disk space. I bought a 1 TB external hard drive and I want to know how to see what fills my c drive.

  I have a laptop.  I need the computer for class of models. I have the elite external hard drive WD book.  I just want to know how to find out what fills my disk c. I have a lot of pictures.

  Hello

  To see what fills your disk space on C:, try this free program:

  http://www.Jam-software.com/treesize_free/

  See you soon.

  p.s. Check to you sure it is C: and D: not that you get the message on.

  D: drives are normally the recovery Partitions, are 5-15GBs and should not be bothered with except to make recovery disks of.

• PC DM files: my hard drive is currently filled by PC DM files in my folder/Public user folder. How can I safely remove the right files in this folder?

  My hard drive is currently filled by PC DM files in my folder/Public user folder.  How can I safely remove the right files in this folder?  Vista Home Premium 64 bit is my os.

  Hi templar_39,

  DM (Message Delivery) file types are not Windows files, they can be generated by a third-party program.

  This particular file type is often associated with audio data and can be hosted on some cell phones to be used as ringtones or multimedia clips. To my knowledge, these files can be generated by your mobile phone.

  Note: you can go ahead and remove these files only if you notice that the files do not contain any important information.

  If this happens without connect you all devices (like mobile PHONES), this may be a virus or malware activity. You can run a virus scan to get rid of them

  Step 1: A scanner online for any threat and try to correct

  http://OneCare.live.com/site/en-us/Center/cleanup.htm

  Thank you, and in what concerns:

  Ajay K

  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer

  Visit our Microsoft answers feedback Forum and let us know what you think.

• WindowsWcpOtherFailure3: and error reports created fills my hard drive...

  Hello

  Hard drive of my computer began to fill about two days for an unknown reason. Thinking that some unnecessary files were on my computer, I went to the cleaning disk and made an analysis of my disk. I found that my 'system of windows error reporting files awaiting' occupied a few GB of HARD drive space, so I deleted them, as well as other files than found disk cleanup. Just when I thought it was the end of the problem, my HARD disk begins to fill even more, with the same culprit: 'system queued windows error reporting files'. Error reports have filled so fast in 2 hours, I had about 8 GB of HARD drive space on my C: / drive left and still decreasing. When I looked at my error under 'reports on problems and solutions' reports, all reports was the same.

  Here's a sample:

   

  Product

  Windows Modules Installer

  Problem

  WindowsWcpOtherFailure3

  Date

  02-08-2010 18:10

  Status

  Not reported

  Signature of the problem

  Files helping to describe the problem

  Pending.Xml

  Pending.Xml.Bad

  poqexec.log

  CBS.log

  CBS. Persist.log

  SCM. EVM

  FilterList.log

  Memory.HDMP

  minidump.mdmp

  I ran a restoration of the system to a point before that this problem happened, and it did not work. Apparently, the problem started after I installed a NVIDIA graphics card driver for my geforce 9300 GE (version 258.96 driver updated). I am running Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) like antivirus, Spybot Search and Destroy, and Trend Micro RUBotted. Now, I can't update MSE and there is 7.5 GB on my HARD drive left. He is severely slowing down my computer.

  Any help will be appreciated, thanks.

  Problem event name: WindowsWcpOtherFailure3

  OsVersion: 6.0.6002

  File: base\wcp\sil\merged\ntu\ntsystem.cpp

  Function: Windows::Rtl:SystemImplementation:DirectFileSystemProvider:SysCreateFile

  Online: 1849

  Status: c0000034

  StackHash: 0x927d8fc5

  OS version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.768.2

  Locale ID: 18441

  I, however, have a recovery disk partition. That will help if I reinstall vista from there?

  Also, is there a less radical alternative? I would like to try something else before you do something this radical.

  This will help you, and no, there is no other way, when important files are damaged.
  "A programmer is just a tool that converts the caffeine in code" Deputy CLIP - http://www.winvistaside.de/

• disk hard drive keeps filling

  I got a new computer a few months back, and lately the hard drive has been fill up very quickly for no reason that I can see. I loaded a few games on and that's it, but it keeps fill in at a pace of about 5-10 GB per week. I tried ccleaner and that had no effect. It's a hard drive 1 TB and up to present its used 350 GB even if when I open the files on the c drive and highlight everything and go into propertys the total amount that I can see in there are about 74 GB.

  its an inspiron 3847 running windows 7 pro

  I have no idea what's going on so any help would be appreciated! Thank you

  Take a look at this. The article provides information on how to set the amount of space system restore uses.

• Windows 7 unexplained filling of hard drive

  I have windows 7 on my PC. Microsoft has tried to load Windows 10 but I did not accept the license. Now the space on my hard drive is disappearing and I find nothing to account for it. Is this something to do with uninstalled windows 10 exe? any ideas how to erase anything?

  Please provide more information for your issue to be diagnosed.

  Restart your computer and wait 20 minutes for the system to operate before you download information. When the review much, not Event Viewer log files all problems show in the period immediately after the computer has booted.

  Please provide a copy of your system information file. Type the system information in the search box above the Start button and press the ENTER key (alternative is select Start, all programs, accessories, System Tools, system information). Select file, Export and give the file a name noting where it is located. Not to place the cursor in the body of the report before exporting the file. The system creates a new information file system each time system information is available. You must allow a minute or two before the file is completely filled before exporting a copy. Please download the file to your OneDrive, to share with everyone and post a link here. If the report is in one language other than English, please indicate the language.

  Please download and share with everyone a new copy of your log System of your event viewer on your disc one and post a link here. It allows to avoid confusion if you delete all previous copies of the log files of your OneDrive.

  To access the system, log, select Start, Control Panel, administrative tools, Event Viewer, in the list on the left of the window, expand Windows logs and select System. Place the cursor on the system, select the Action in the Menu and record all events like (the evtx default file type) and give a name to the file. Do not offer not filtered files. Do not place the cursor in the list of reports before selecting the Action from the menu. Do not clear the logs so that you have a persistent problem.

  For assistance OneDrive see paragraph 9.3:

  http://www.gerryscomputertips.co.UK/MicrosoftCommunity1.htm

  General remarks on the event viewer:

  http://www.gerryscomputertips.co.UK/syserrors5.htm