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    Help Im losing Disk space

    Discussion in 'HP' started by mykelala01, Oct 30, 2007.

  1. mykelala01

    mykelala01 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Help everyday I think Im losing about 1 to 2 gb of disk space without downloading and installing any program any idea? I tried disk clean up but it didn't help that much where did my disk space go?
     
    mykelala01, Oct 30, 2007
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    Fondant Notebook Enthusiast

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    System restore points
     
    Fondant, Oct 30, 2007
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    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    Windows uses a few gigs as a buffer for shadow copying and temporary space.

    Try using CCleaner to regain some space back
     
    flipfire, Oct 30, 2007
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    emedici Notebook Consultant

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    Ok. if you want to control the amount of disk space that the System Restore uses, follow these steps:

    1) Logon as Administrator or Go to Start>>All Programs>>Accesories>> and right click on Command Prompt and choose "Run as Administrator" when the User Account Control windows appear click on continue.
    2) When you're at the Command Prompt window type: vssadmin resize shadowstorage /For=C: /On=C: /MaxSize: 8GB (what I recommend). In the MaxSize option the least you can set is 300MB, if you leave it blank it will set no limit for the storages (as you have now). Don't for get to use the initials MB for Mega Bytes or GB for Giga Bytes at the end of the amount you want to set (e.g. 2GB or 500MB).

    Good luck!!!
     
    emedici, Oct 30, 2007
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    mykelala01 Notebook Enthusiast

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    How do you delete restore points?
     
    mykelala01, Oct 30, 2007
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    emedici Notebook Consultant

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    When you change the amount settings as I told you before, depending the amount you set, you're bound to lose some restore points.
     
    emedici, Oct 30, 2007
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    mykelala01 Notebook Enthusiast

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    aight Thanks
     
    mykelala01, Oct 30, 2007
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    AKAJohnDoe Mime with Tourette's

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    SEARCH and find prior answers such as this
     
    AKAJohnDoe, Oct 31, 2007
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    orev Notebook Virtuoso

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    Or better you'll find the guide in my signature.
     
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  10. bojangles

    bojangles Newbie

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    Side question: can you tell me how you managed to get a a DV 2600 CTO?? Can't seem to locate any? I thought the release was delayed??
     
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  11. mykelala01

    mykelala01 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I got it thru my case manager. Anyway I just look under my laptop where my serial no# and product no# located at and it says DV2600 Im not sure if someone mess up thru HP and put a DV2600 tag on it. Or it was delay on the store only, but not thru HP factory.

    If you're still not sure I believe that HP release a couple of DV2600 model
    http://search.hp.com/query.html?lang=en&submit.x=6&submit.y=1&qt=dv2600&la=en&cc=us
     
    mykelala01, Oct 31, 2007
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    bojangles Newbie

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    Which store does it come from? Is this in the US?

    Thanks!
     
    bojangles, Nov 1, 2007
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    mykelala01 Notebook Enthusiast

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    No! from my case manager. I used to have a DV1680us I had a problem with it. Sent it to HP they can't fix it. I was transfer to a case manager. Case manager replace my old laptop with brand new one. Tada! instant DV2600 straight from china
     
    mykelala01, Nov 1, 2007
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