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Originally Posted by Aragorn
Interesting. I guess it's down to more housekeeping 
A useful tool for identifing large directories is treesize free.
Also, you could try the Vista SP2 cleanup tool ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l...36(WS.10).aspx) - it freed up a fair amount of space on my laptop.
Finally, you could see whether Shadow Copy is enabled. VSSAdmin can show you how much is allocated (wasted) to it - not needed unless you are sharing your laptop disk on the network. (see here) |
I've got Treesize, (very helpful, thanks). I've done disk cleanup (or is your version different?). I guess I could reduce the amount of space available for system restore (that's what shadowcopy is isn't it?), but I'd rather not.
I'm thinking I could really do with moving some stuff from the C to the D drive, e.g. system restore points, or the users directory, but I'm not sure if that's going to work. The other thing to bear in mind is that the laptop is shared with my wife, and I really don't want to lumber her sticking stuff in awkward locations. However, as it is, there's about 10 Gig in the users directory (I've already got the iTunes directory and other media) on D, and I'm already running out of space on the C drive. Right now, I've got 20 Gig free, but system restore is likely to eat away at that, which means I will soon have less than 10 Gig which will slow Vista down.
Basically, a 65 Gig drive isn't sufficient to run Vista comfortably.
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Hmm. Will
this work?
Basically, I want to move all users data/profiles etc. to the second drive, thus clearing 10 Gig on the Vista drive, and making sure all user data gets stored on the second drive which has plenty of space for user data. Hopefully without any knock-on effects, so wifey can just keep saving her stuff on a desktop folder without noticing any difference.