Windows Vista shows 1.84 GB of free space on a 37.2 GB HARD drive, but it is false.

A friend has Vista Home Premium 32 bit, service Pack2 installed. Vista reports that there is only 1.84 GB of free space on 37.7 Go, but through all the folders and adding up their total use, there's only 14.8 GB of data (documents, downloads, photos, programs, and Windows Vista, etc.) on the disc and even if Restore Points using a full 5% of disk space, which is only 1.86 GB extra. I ran disk cleaners (disc CCleaner and Windows clean), all temporary files at once I.e. and Windows Explorer have been removed, all registry errors have been fixed, and there are only two restore points. When I first checked the disk usage after receiving a warning that the C: drive was almost full, there is a red bar on the C: drive, instead of the usual blue (I dunno what that means), but after race Defragmenter Windows bar was new blue, but the use of the disc was reported more than twice what is actually there. Everything which can be removed, cookies, namely history, recent documents from Windows Explorer, etc., etc. have been removed. I can't understand where are the other ±18.7 GB.

A friend has Vista Home Premium 32 bit, service Pack2 installed. Vista reports that there is only 1.84 GB of free space on 37.7 Go, but through all the folders and adding up their total use, there's only 14.8 GB of data (documents, downloads, photos, programs, and Windows Vista, etc.) on the disc and even if Restore Points using a full 5% of disk space, which is only 1.86 GB extra. I ran disk cleaners (disc CCleaner and Windows clean), all temporary files at once I.e. and Windows Explorer have been removed, all registry errors have been fixed, and there are only two restore points. When I first checked the disk usage after receiving a warning that the C: drive was almost full, there is a red bar on the C: drive, instead of the usual blue (I dunno what that means), but after race Defragmenter Windows bar was new blue, but the use of the disc was reported more than twice what is actually there. Everything which can be removed, cookies, namely history, recent documents from Windows Explorer, etc., etc. have been removed. I can't understand where are the other ±18.7 GB.

You can check the amount of space allocated for system restore points.  The system restore point brought the file size can be larger than necessary and could keep the restore points created when Windows updates come through and devours your file space.  It is interesting to watch in any case just to be safe.  I had this problem and changed by reducing the allotted file space in the system restore folder/file.

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