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• How can you recover disk space occupied by the updates of Windows XP, leading up to the installation of Windows XP SP3? __

  How can you recover disk space occupied by the updates of Windows XP, leading up to the installation of Windows XP SP3?

  SP3 after Installation Cleanup - http://www.aumha.net/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=33827 MS - MVP - Elephant Boy computers - Don ' t Panic!

• How to recover disk space?

  Delete the files in the Windows\winsxs folder? Seems to be filling with a large number of records and take too much disk space?

  The short answer is no.

  http://blogs.technet.com/b/joscon/archive/2010/08/06/should-you-delete-files-in-the-WinSxS-directory-and-what-s-the-deal-with-VSS.aspx

  The ways to recover from space are mentioned here

  http://blogs.technet.com/b/joscon/archive/2010/06/12/General-guidance-on-disk-provisioning-for-WinSxS-growth.aspx

  For the Vista SP2, compcln program is located in Windows\System32. Right click and run as administrator. The equivalent program if you're still on SP1 is vsp1cln.

• compaction of disk space is removing the last 6 months of emails and put them in the trash. He has never done this before.

  When I compact my disk space, it deletes all previous 6 months emails in the trash. He's never done this before and has since a few months I do not more. all compact space solutions without losing everything?

  Compaction doesn't send your mail in the trash. Those are backup files in case something like this happens.

  Two reasons the most common for what you describe is disruption of the compacting process, (never touch anything until it's finished), or bloated folders. More about that below.

  Why OE insists on compacting folders when I close it? :
  http://www.insideoe.com/FAQs/why.htm#compact
   
  Why mail disappears:
  http://www.insideoe.com/problems/bugs.htm#mailgone
   
  About file Corruption:
  http://www.Microsoft.com/Windows/IE/community/columns/filecorruption.mspx

  Recovery methods:

  If you use XP/SP2 or SP3, and are fully patched, then you should have a backup of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin (or possibly the message store), copied as bak files.

  To restore a folder bak on the message store folder, first find the location of the message store.

  Tools | Options | Maintenance | Store folder will reveal the location of your Outlook Express files. Note the location and navigate on it in Explorer Windows or, copy and paste in start | Run.

  In Windows XP, the .dbx files are by default marked as hidden. To view these files in the Solution Explorer, you must enable Show hidden files and folders under start | Control Panel | Folder options | View.

  Close OE and in Windows Explorer, click on the dbx to the file missing or empty file, then drag it to the desktop. It can be deleted later once you have successfully restored the bak file. Minimize the message store.

  Open OE and, if the folder is missing, create a folder with the * exact * same name as the bak file you want to restore but without the .bak. For example: If the file is Saved.bak, the new folder should be named saved. Open the new folder, and then close OE. If the folder is there, but just empty, continue to the next step.

  First of all, check if there is a bak file already in the message. If there is, and you have removed the dbx file, go ahead and rename it in dbx.

  If it is not already in the message, open the trash and do a right-click on the file bak for the folder in question and click on restore. Open the message store up and replace the .bak by .dbx file extension. Close the message store and open OE. Messages must be in the folder.

  If messages are restored successfully, you can go ahead and delete the old dbx file that you moved to the desktop.
   
  If you have not then bak copies of your dbx files in the Recycle Bin:

  DBXpress run in extract disc Mode is the best chance to recover messages:
  http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/default.aspx

  And see:
  http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#4

  A general warning to help avoid this in the future:

  Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They finally are damaged. Create your own folders defined by the user for mail storage and move your mail to them. Empty the deleted items folder regularly. Keep user created folders under 300 MB, and also empty as is possible to default folders.

  Disable analysis in your e-mail anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer of protection that devours the CPUs, slows down sending and receiving and causes a multitude of problems such as time-outs, account setting changes and has even been responsible for the loss of messages. Your up-to-date A / V program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more information, see:
  http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

  And backup often.

  Outlook Express Quick Backup (OEQB Freeware)
  http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/default.aspx

  Bruce Hagen
  MS - MVP October 1, 2004 ~ September 30, 2010
  Imperial Beach, CA

• Remove the 2 GB windows ISO file after I burned the dvd of windows 8 pro?

  Downloaded Windows Pro 8, all right.

  Downloaded to make the ISO file, since I just clicked on install the first time.  Recorded the 'Windows' disk image file in my documents.

  Created the DVD using the Update Wizard very easily.

  It is, now that I am running windows 8 pro and my DVD is done, I try to delete the image disk 2GB 'Windows' file in my documents and get the error message 'The action cannot be completed because the file is opened in the system', so I can remove it and if so, how?

  Downloaded Windows Pro 8, all right.

  Downloaded to make the ISO file, since I just clicked on install the first time. Recorded the 'Windows' disk image file in my documents.

  Created the DVD using the Update Wizard very easily.

  It is, now that I am running windows 8 pro and my DVD is done, I try to delete the image disk 2GB 'Windows' file in my documents and get the error message 'The action cannot be completed because the file is opened in the system', so I can remove it and if so, how?

  Yes, you can remove it. Close all programs, restart the computer and try to delete it again.

  If the problem persists, try to start safe mode and delete it.

  How to start Windows 7 in Safe Mode : Notebooks.com

• Can I free up hard disk space by removing old updates?

  I run windows XP and have updated my system regularly with updates of service pack (Service Pack 3 now). All the old update files downloaded from Microsoft are still in my C:\Windows directory. Delete all files of thos now that they are installed on my computer? It's about 4 GB of space.

  Thank you

  See this discussion: http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=33827 ~ Robear Dyer (PA Bear) ~ MS MVP (that is to say, mail, security, Windows & Update Services) since 2002 ~ WARNING: MS MVPs represent or work for Microsoft

• Recently, I deleted my partition bootcamp about 65 GB space. However, after that I restarted my MAC, the 65GB is lost! The total space in my HD is currently 434GB although it should be 500 GB! Anyone know how to recover my space 65GB?

  Recently, I deleted my partition bootcamp about 65 GB space. However, after that I restarted my MAC, the 65GB is lost!

  The total space in my HD is currently 434GB although it should be 500 GB! Anyone know how to recover my space 65GB?

  See below for my disk utility:

  

  

  Hello waynetay,

  Thank you for being part of the community of Apple!

  Looks like you want to recover the hard disk space that has been used by Bootcamp.  I know how critical disk hard space is, as I understand it want to access it.

  The Boot Camp Assistant should have added space on the side of Mac OS X from the hard drive when it has been used to remove Windows.  Since that didn't happen, you need to back up the system, and then erase the hard drive, then restore the backup.

  First, back up the computer.  Your computer has software called Time Machine.  It is a fantastic software for backing up your computer.  Information on how to use Time Machine is available here:

  Use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac.

  Once you have the backup, you must erase the drive and then restore the backup Time Machine.

  You can use these measures to erase files on your startup drive and install a fresh copy of OS X:

  1. Before you begin, make sure that your Mac is connected to the Internet.
  2. Restart your Mac. Immediately hold down the command (⌘) keys and R after having heard the startup sound to boot into OS X Recovery.
  3. When the recovery window, select disk utility, then click on continue.
  4. Select the volume name back from your startup disk in the left side of the disk utility window, then click Delete.
  5. If you want to erase the disc safely, click Security Options. Select an erasing method, and then click OK.
  6. On the Format menu, choose Mac OS extended (journaled). Type a name for your drive, and then click clear.
  7. After that the drive is deleted, close the disk utility window.
  8. If you are not connected to the Internet, select a network in the Wi-Fi menu.
  9. Select the option to reinstall OS X.
  10. Click on continue and follow the instructions on the screen to reinstall OS X.

  Once OS X installation is complete, you should have the option to restore from a backup Time Machine in the first installation of OS X.  Choose this option, and the computer will restore everything that was on it before it has been removed.  More information can be found here:

  How to reinstall OS X on your Mac

  Have a great day!

• Firefox thinks that I don't have enough disk space and cancels the download when it is almost finished.

  So, recently, I was downloading a pretty huge file for a game (4.5 gigabytes), and it was almost over, when an error emerged, saying there wasn't enough disk space for Firefox to download the file. At the time, I had just enough disk space to download the file (Yes, I checked and made sure). Download became unresumable, and I was incredibly annoyed to find that I had to download it again, because my download speed is not very good at all. I put in the night and noted where he stopped, and in the morning, when I checked it, he stopped at the EXACT SAME place, which is at about 4.1/4.5 GB. I did a lot more room since then and I am downloading for the third time now. If this happens again, how can I solve this problem? Thank you.
  In addition, it is a .dat file. I don't know if this has an impact any on what can cause this, but if anyone knows anything, please let me know.

  Hello, please make sure, that you do not save the file on a volume formatted with the FAT32 file system, because it cannot store files larger than 4 GB...

• Not enough disk space to convert the iPhoto photo library

  My wife iPhoto library has about 9 500 photos. She has a MacBook Air, which has limited hard disk space, so we put his iPhoto library on a SD card (which is still in its SD slot). We decided to convert the iPhone photo library. When the process is started, it happens about 4% on the progress bar when a popup said that there is not enough disk space to perform the task (said to 72GO). How can I complete this process? She wants to ensure its iPhone and iPad Air can all share all the photos via iCloud. Can I put the library of Photos on the SD card too? Once the synchronization of library of Photos with iCloud, not all large digital images disappear from MacBook Air and only a miniature remain (like on the iPhone and the iPad)?

  I decided to try the procedure on my original post on my MacBook Pro.

  I copied the Library.photoslibrary Photos of my MBP to an external hard drive connected to my MBP.

  I did an "Option" + then click on 'Photos' selected the "Library.photoslibrary Photos" on my external hard drive. This produces the following pop-up message:

  "This library contains items to download from iCloud photo library".

  "To download the complete library, delete the incomplete elements, then set this library as the library of the system preferences and activate iCloud photo library. This will disable iCloud photo library on other libraries. »

  "Delete the incomplete items" or "quit".

  I clicked on "Quit" and posted above.

• In time real PXI-1031 does more work with labview. "Not enough disk space to perform the backup.

  The labview real-time project was working until a few weeks ago and the only error that is displayed on the PXI is this error message.

  "NEITHER Configuration Manager: not enough disk space for the backup" everything before that looks like it starts very well. Recently, I removed the hard drive and remove the 4 GB network log file because it seemed to me that a file of 4 GB on a fat32 file system was probably the cause of the problem. After that it the project worked when I tested it, but others in my lab said it was broken again the next day.

  Any help would be greatly appreciated because I don't know all that equipment.

  I found that I had "reset IP" set to "yes" in the bios that seemed to be causing my problem because I changed it to no and it seems to work perfectly now. Sorry that it took so much time to understand and I feel like a fool.

• Error message, not enough of disk space to run the defragmentation

  Cleaning disc already used and removed unused programs.  Still get popups that say "disc not enough disk space for number of updates available" "not enough disk space to run defrag" "not enough disk space to run the system restore" I'm positive, I have more than 200 MB of free space on c:, (if updates are somewhere on my computer and using all the space?)  This xp computer is not much used, and certainly didn't have the amount of used space?

  Anyone know where is the problem?

  None of this has worked.  What has worked is that I discovered that Norton Antivirus used up to 57% of my c drive.  Entered their downloads of programs and the program downloaded 2012, which automatically deleated the old Norton application.  Apparently, whenever the old application done an update to download, it would wipe out not at the same time old files is no longer needed.

  in any case, I now 57% free space.

  Thank you

• How to allocate disk space for vCenter server logs

  Hello

  I plan to level 4.1 to 5.5 U2d vCenter on the customer site. One of the conditions set out in the vSphere upgrade guide is:

  "In vCenter Server 5.x, the default size for vCenter Server connects is larger than in vCenter Server 4.x. make sure that the disk space allocated for the log folder is sufficient for this increase 450MB."

  My question is how to allocate disk space for the log file and where can I find the disk space allotted to file papers to vCenter 4.1 existing?

  Just see the free space on the partition where the vCenter server logs are stored. If it is insufficient, increase the size of the virtual disk and then increase the file system to the guest OS.

• How to recover free space on Thin provisioned VM

  Hello

  We are trying to recover the thin provisioned VMDK using below UNMAP commands on esxi5.5 update1 host but get error backup volume not supported for UNMAP and we can see that delete also not taken in charge and all status by checking the ATAS list his indicates that the plugin is not loaded we use IBM SVC (VMW_SATP_SVC VMW_PSP_FIXED placeholder (not loaded plugin)

  Let know us how to load the VMW_SATP_SVC plugin to the ESXi 5.5 update1 host and also suggest how to recover free space on thin provisioned VMs

  Here's the output of command, we checked and we suggest to conduct thorough on this

  **************************************************************************************************

  ~ # esxcli storage vmfs unmap-l NONPROD-DS01

  Backup volume 5390312 a-1f3a16fd-b578-5ef3fc1eb0bb devices do not support undo the MAPPING

  *************************************************************************************************

  *******************************************************************************************************

  ~ # esxcli central storage peripheral vaai situation get naa.60050768018105ced80000000 d

  CF 00010

  1. NAA.60050768018105ced8000000000010fc

  VAAI Plugin name:

  ATS status: supported

  Clone status: supported

  Zero status: supported

  Delete status: unsupported

  ********************************************************************************************************

  ********************************************************************************************************

  ~ # esxcli storage nmp ATAS list

  Description of default name PSP

  -------------------  -------------  --------------------------------------------                                                -----------

  Tables VMW_SATP_ALUA VMW_PSP_MRU nonspecific media that use the Protocol AL AU

  VMW_SATP_MSA VMW_PSP_MRU placeholder (not loaded plugin)

  VMW_SATP_DEFAULT_AP VMW_PSP_MRU placeholder (not loaded plugin)

  VMW_SATP_SVC VMW_PSP_FIXED placeholder (not loaded plugin)

  VMW_SATP_EQL VMW_PSP_FIXED placeholder (not loaded plugin)

  VMW_SATP_INV VMW_PSP_FIXED placeholder (not loaded plugin)

  VMW_SATP_EVA VMW_PSP_FIXED placeholder (not loaded plugin)

  VMW_SATP_ALUA_CX VMW_PSP_RR placeholder (not loaded plugin)

  VMW_SATP_SYMM VMW_PSP_RR placeholder (not loaded plugin)

  VMW_SATP_CX VMW_PSP_MRU placeholder (not loaded plugin)

  VMW_SATP_LSI VMW_PSP_MRU placeholder (not loaded plugin)

  Non-specific bays of VMW_SATP_DEFAULT_AA VMW_PSP_FIXED Supports active/active

  VMW_SATP_LOCAL VMW_PSP_FIXED direct support of connected devices

  ************************************************************************************************************************

  Hi friend

  I checked with the storage provider and they confirmed that the storage system (currently no products support midsize or SVC SCSI unmap commands used by space VAAI claim.)

• How to increase disk space without guest operating system reinstallation

  Hello

  I take advantage of VMWARE with linux host and vista 64 comments, but I encountered a problem, running out of disk space.

  During the installation of VISTA, I chose 25 GB of disk space, as recommneded by IG of installation).

  Now I need more space.

  According to the virtual disk manager, I did

  VMware-vdiskmanager mydisk.vmdk 40 GB - x

  increase to 40 GB. It seemed to work, as I received a message,

  "Disk expansion completed successfully."

  Now "The VM setting" windows says HD 40 GB. But internally under VISTA, disk space is always 25 GB. In fact, the size of disk file (view on the side of linux) is only 22 GB. No idea how to increase disk space. He must start from the installation, but it's a little painful.

  Thank you.

  dw104

  If the guest is Vista or Windows 2008, then you should be able to extend the partition while the system is running.

  Take a look at this article: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial133.html

  Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 won't let you do that, while the disk is online.  Vista and Windows 2008 changed things.

  For versions of Windows Vista/2008, look for the Dell ExtPart.exe utility, as it will do the job for you.

  See you soon,.

  Jase McCarty

  http://www.jasemccarty.com

  Co-author of VMware ESX Essentials in the virtual data center

  (ISBN:1420070274) Auerbach

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• MS Explorer began to install the two updates when I was closing. Install the other ran all night. How to remove the update or complete? __

  Ideasms you have any problems with

  • Error messages
  • Recent changes to your computer
  • What you have already tried to solve the problem

  Remember - this is a public forum so never post private information such as numbers of mail or telephone!

  Hello

  He's still trying to install? If so use the below, if not you can HIDE it from Windows Updates - right-click on LEATHER.

  Then, you can download it from the Download Center and try to install it. Of course, be sure that you really need the
  Update.

  MS Download Center
  http://www.Microsoft.com/downloads/en/default.aspx

  I guess that part of the question could be a driver which is really old or similar should not be loaded.

  This exit Windows updates on (after you have access) and stop the updates of the driver to load.

  How to disable automatic driver Installation in Windows Vista - drivers
  http://www.AddictiveTips.com/Windows-Tips/how-to-disable-automatic-driver-installation-in-Windows-Vista/
  http://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc730606 (WS.10) .aspx

  ---------------------------------------------------

  You can use the solutions in this KB - 3 methods and I listed a little help for them below

  The update is not installed successfully, you receive a message, and the computer restarts when you try to
  install an update in Windows Vista
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/949358

  Method 1: Start Windows Vista with the Windows installation media and use the repair feature

  How to do a startup repair in Vista
  http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/91467-startup-repair.html

  You can also do a safe mode startup repair to access the Recovery Options If you have them available
  or use the DVD as described above.

  This tells you how to access the System Recovery Options
  http://windowshelp.Microsoft.com/Windows/en-us/help/326b756b-1601-435e-99D0-1585439470351033.mspx

  Try recovery options Startup Repair

  How to do a startup repair
  http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/91467-startup-repair.html

  Method 2: Start the system in safe mode and then use the system restore feature

  How to make a Vista system restore
  http://www.Vistax64.com/tutorials/76905-System-Restore-how.html

  You can also do a restore of the system of starting with a Vista disk.

  Method 3: Rename the Pending.xml file, and then change the registry (this method is part of the advanced troubleshooting)

  See article below for that.

  You can use this method on the updates that have this problem.
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/949358

  Hide the update (click right - HIDE in the updates of Windows) and go to the Microsoft Download Center to download
  and install it.

  Microsoft Download Center
  http://www.Microsoft.com/downloads/en/default.aspx

  ------------------------------------------------------

  Once you are in Windows I was running once again reset here as a precaution.

  How to reset the Windows Update components?
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/971058

  Hope this helps sort it out for you.
  Rob - bicycle - Mark Twain said it is good.