Vista's using HDD like crazy!!!! what do I do???

ok long story as short as possible I have Vista home premiun on my Desktop, and it's using way way way to much memory on my hard disk.

I started with a 400gb hdd, after the recovery partion and other formatting that works out to 363gb.

every day or so Vista eats up between 0-6gb's of space. I have not put anything at all on the hdd in that time, it's just my avalible disk space keeps going down... I am now at 291gb, 1 hour ago I was a 297gb... that hdd is constantly in use it seems. it still reports the maximum at 363gb. this is all I have on the hdd...

Vista home premium, with HP stuff... ???gb
supreme commander 10gb's
music and videos 8gb's maybe a little bit more, not much.
and a few small programs totalling 1 gb at the most...
AVG anti virus

so why is Vista taken so much memory? any thoughts? any way to reclaim that disk space? I tried disk clean up, and it frees up some but not that much...


PS: I don't actually need more space than I am using but I am worried that It won't stop... its now been 3 weeks...

 

I noticed something similar to this and I think its Vista creating like more system restore points than you need. Search up shadow storage on this forum for your answer. Its a simple fix but I am not entirely sure of how I went about it. I also received advice from members of this forum.

 

thanks I'll check it out

 

One of Vista's many improvements.

 

Ok that explains a lot.

are these results normal?

Used Shadow copy space = 43 gb
allocated shadow copy space = 45 gb
maximum shadow copy space = 54 gb

I rounded but those are the values I got from cmd...

vssadmin list shadowstorage was the command I entered...

thank you so much for all your help!!!

 

Actually yuio now that you mention it i notice the same problem. I think i'll have a look into this shadow copy myself.

 

While disk space and memory are two separate and distinctly different resources, it does read as if you have restore points turned on. The Vista Help will lead on you the correct path.

 

sorry I knew that, here it is rephrased

'I have Vista home premiun on my Desktop, and it's using way way way to much space on my hard disk'

 

No worries. I updated my post with more info.

 

awsome, thanks for all your help !!!

 

For the vssadmin shadow storage, the figures you have are enormous. Mine were also rather enormous, at about 30GB. I believe anywhere between 6-10GB is sufficient.

 

Yea, the space reserved on my laptop said it was about 68 GB. Insane.

 

I know the feeling. I started with a 160 gb hd I now have 95GB the only thing I've installed is Oblivion which I can barley play!