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    Hard drive space on dv9500t

    Discussion in 'HP' started by rckman25, Aug 11, 2007.

  1. rckman25

    rckman25 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I just recieved my hp dv9500t laptop and I love it! I just have one question regarding hard drive(C :). I check my memory each day, and each time I check it seems my memory is decreasing, without me downloading anything. I cleaned up my hard drive, and even ran disk defragmenter and still nothing has changed. What is going on? And how do I go about fixing this problem?
     
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    suland Notebook Evangelist

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    The thing bothering you is VISTA. You have to turn off the RESTORE option in Control Panel > System > System Protection. And about 15-20 GB will be yours again.
     
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    Vista can use up to 15% of your HD space to save restore points and old copies of files. This is a backup. I do not suggest you turn this off, unless you have a very good backup plan and use it religiously.

    The article in my signature explains it in more detail, and tells you how to limit the amount of space Vista reserves for this purpose.
     
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    SideSwipe Notebook Virtuoso

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    just to point out that memory is the wrong term when talking about this, it is hard drive space. memory is a term you would use for the RAM which is a different component. I know in XP that you can perform a system cleanup and an option is there to delete old restore points so if this is available in Vista you dont have to disable system restore, all you have to do is delete the older points.
     
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    How do I delete older points?
     
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    i havent used vista much but in computer right click on your C drive go to properties and maybe theres a disk cleanup option somewhere?
     
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    orev, Aug 11, 2007
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