This is crazy I got a 250 gig hardrive and that screwy builder makes my C drive on 9.76 gig ,( I have three partitions ) after uninstalling about seven programs I just now tried to defrag , its telling me I only have 3 % unused space 200 mb's and defrag needs 15 % of unused space , , I was told the UPS power chute files were only about 5 mb's I did not install anything else I can't figure out how I lost so much gig from 2.17 gig free to now a few mbs unused space on C
I am going to uninstall those ups files I guess but it says in add/remove its only just under 5 mbs ,
My only ace in the hole now I am thinking to to un install my scanner program files thats 154 mbs
As long as I have the cd I guess I should be ok with reinstalling it once I enlarge my C drive .
Is it safe to uninstall and later reinstall the scanner program files ?
Do you think the computer speed will slow down if the page files are away from the operating system drive and far down the hardrive on a different partion ? I was also thinking of moving those page files but kinda nervous about that.
I went thru everything with a fine tooth comb the temp file in windows hardly anything to write home about well cookies 10 kb, history 64 kb, t.i.f. I emptyed those out the other day , 10 kb , two folders both empty 0 kbs and 16 text docs ms16 df all 1 kb each so those are all more or less just about empty and recycle bin is empty as well
maybe the system restore might have gone nuts and ate 2 gig in one fell swoop ?
If I disabled it and then after partition my C drive
enabled it .. would the system restore go back to normal ?
I am not sure if I can disable the hibernation files perminently because the UPS -APC files need to go in that folder but maybe not I guess If I diabled it temporaraly its ok , but I wonder if and how I would get it back enabled ??
The system restore configurations was set on max which is the default this was the setting on each drive and its using 28 gig total , the C drive cuz its so small is using 1.20 gig and the E partition is using 16.199 gig
I think I know what ate all my space on the C drive , it was those darn hibernation files , its 2 gig as of now I have no idea what it was before I installed those power chute APC UPS files but those files were only 5 mb my page files if it is the amount of ram I have then in Megabytes mb's multiplied by 1.5 % I think thats the default calculation ?? ( which comes to 3 gig ) (2 x 1.5 = 3) so I probably got 3 gig on my page files in the C drive I guess I could put the swap files on the far end of the drive in the F partition where I plan to store an image copy of ghost files backup of C later on ..the F partition is the furthest away from C , is it better to have it on D close to C along with my data folders ? I wonder if I changed my mind if the computer ran slower could I put it back on C from F partition after I enlarge my C drive ? and my music and photos are seperate from C on a dedicated partition..
On C is nero and roxio stuff and all the microsoft apps word, works, money,picture it , my printer software files , my scanner software files and adobe acrobat reader program thats all I can think of right now . the only thing I can work with is page files , hibernation files, and system restore and uninstall my scanner program files .
