After my last post about missing disk space, I thought everything had been fixed… only to watch it quickly creep back up to nearly full.One solution I discovered today was to restrict the amount of space reserved for system restore - open up a DOS (command) prompt with administrator privileges (normally you’d right-click on the shortcut and choose “Run as administrator”) - and then type the following command:

vssadmin Resize ShadowStorage /On=C: /For=C: /Maxsize=5GB

where /On=C: and /For=C: represent the drive where the files are stored, and for which drive - if you have only one hard disk, both will be C: - but if you have more than one drive, change /On to one of the other drives for better performance and security. /Maxsize=5GB is the amount of space you want to allocate - in this case 5 gigabytes. Read the rest of this entry »

For some time now, I’ve noticed that my notebook always seems to be quite full - I regularly move data onto an external hard drive, uninstall programs that I don’t use, and yet I always seem to have less than 5% disk space left.

What was most unusual was that every time I went through my cleaning routine, I would go to check my disk space - and the amount available didn’t increase, it decreased! Read the rest of this entry »