Mar 11 2009
Where my harddisk space goes?
May be sometime any one of you must have noticed that when you have first installed Windows XP or Vista you have plenty of Good Space reserved at your primary drive or where you have installed the Windows but as time passes, the space you have slowly eaten up but you don’t know why?
This is because of system restore and the temp files store in your system if you don’t know about system restore you can visit the link given
Now look haw it works…. Suppose you have installed any new hardware or software and system restore creates a new restore point, and again every time you install a new device it creates another restore point keeping the previous record in the history. This process is repeated with every change of hardware or software consuming your harddisk space. Here one thing you should remember that with first installation Windows reserve about 15% of Your Harddisk space. But if you want you can custmize this space to have minimum restore points thus gaining more space to do so You can use a command line tool to reduce the amount of drive space that system restore takes
Go to Start>All Programs>Accessories>Command Prompt and right-click command prompt.
Choose Run As Administrator, click Continue to accept the UAC prompt, and then type this command:
vssadmin Resize ShadowStorage /For=C: /On=C: /MaxSize=1GB
Press Enter to execute the command and then type Exit (then press Enter again) to close the command prompt window.
Maxsize is the amount of space you want to reserve for use with system restore.
Now to delete temp file Go to Start>run and press enter
in the run window write “%temp%” without the quotes and you will be popup with the temporary files location folder delete all the files there and you will free up the space used by temp files.
