Vista Hard Disk Space Shrinking and Reducing Anomaly
Windows Vista is running normally and properly, no blue screen, no error, no problem and it seems that everything is fine. However, the free disk space that is available kept reducing and shrinking to less and less amount. The free space can decreases by up to a few GBs a day, even if you do not download any big files, receive any big attachments or engage in file sharing or file transfer activity with your peers.
Worse still, even if you delete a lot of large files away, or run Disk Cleanup to clean and free up a lot of downloaded program files, temporary Internet files, offline webpages, hibernation file, junks in Recycle Bin, setup log files, system error memory dump or minidump files, temporary files, thumbnails and archived or queued Windows Error Reporting files, the problem won’t go away. The space is still anomaly and abnormally low, and getting lower, and it seems like it’s going to running out of space. And, if you manually add up the size of each folders taken up on the disk drive, the total free space appears far lower than the supposedly value.
This symptom is probably caused by the usage of disk space by System Restore and Previous Versions (collectively called Volume Shadow Copy). Sometime, Windows Vista mistakenly marked the maximum space limit that can be used by Shadow Copies to be Unbounded (no limit), and that’s where all the disk space program comes in.
For immediate relief from space constraint, you can reclaim and release all System Restore and Shadow Copies used disk space. For permanent solution, it’s best to set the limit for Shadow Copies space usage, or you can turn off System Restore (and Shadow Copies and hence Previous Versions) all together.
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July 4th, 2007 18:41
please check the follwoing annoiing VISTA behaviour:
even when i disable all or most services i can think of (superfetch, indexing etc. sidebar etc.) VISTA is constantly accessing the harddrive!!!!
it´s not like XP where the HD is idle when the PC is idle. NO vista touches the HD all few seconds.
that sucks big time!!
July 5th, 2007 08:42
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July 8th, 2007 01:48
I have done all this but am still loosing disc space all the time. Turned off everything (hybernation, system restore etc) uninstalled Halo 2 (giving back 4.5 Gb) re-booted and was told drive had 3.5Mb spare !
Any help greatly appreciated.
July 9th, 2007 07:01
I guess you could try my folder size utility - Dirlot to determine what takes the most of space on your disk. Then you will be able to make further assumptions as to what caused it.
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May 1st, 2008 06:28
this is just a small bandaid for 1 of the many reasons why vista is going down the toilet like win m.e. did. in fact vista is just an updated version of win m.e. obviously they did’nt think we would remember. do yourself a favor get ubuntu linux for free and make it your own.tell bill you are’nt as dumb as he thinks.
May 9th, 2008 00:49
Hi! Thanks for the tip! Solved my problem.
May 12th, 2008 15:52
This is one of the reasons I still use XP. I tried Vista for a month and had tons of problems including this one. Yes, everything can be tweaked, but what’s the point of having to work and tweak to end up with something slower than XP? As for the aero, it was nice, but after 2 days I hardly noticed it anymore. And dx10 was the biggest loss, but even that wasn’t a big deal.
May 20th, 2008 05:47
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August 27th, 2008 03:33
I was wondering why I lost free disk space after uninstalling several programs. Thanks for the insight. After turning this off, my free disk space increased about 15%.