windows folder is huge

bill bashed at the keyboard and said:

> My 40GB hard drive started reporting low disc space. On
> investigation I find the Windows folder is almost 31GB.
> I then looked for a "fat" folder inside the Windows
> folder, but I can't find it. Somehow the Windows folder
> is chewing up the whole drive. I have run disk cleanup.
> Any ideas?

I think this is to do with system restore,

You can calm it down by right clicking my computer on the desktop, selecting
system restore, select your C drive and then select settings. From there you
can set the aount of HD space to be used.

I am not sure what happens to the files if you move the slider back down,
i.e does it remove them.

For more information put "system restore" in to "Help & Support"

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Bill, obviously you got something huge in your Windows directory if it is
coming up at 31GB of space. I guess start with something easy. Go to
www.iolo.com and get yourself a copy of System Mechanic. Install it, run the
"Find and remove junk and obsolete files". This finds all kinds of junk that
Disk Cleanup misses. Also check and see how much space is being consumed by
Temporary Internet files in what ever browser(s) you may use. Also use the
file Search function in Windows and look for files above say, 20MBs, and
weed through those for logs or backups that are mo longer relevant and
Finally, stop downloading movies with Kazaa *heh*.

If you check "Properties" on the Windows folder what does it say? My system
is a little bloated. 2.13 GB 15,689 Files and 742 Folders. Not that your
numbers should be exactly like these, but being more than a magnitude away
from this suggests that something is wrong.

Regards...

"bill" <bill@paulrussell.com> wrote in message
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> My 40GB hard drive started reporting low disc space. On
> investigation I find the Windows folder is almost 31GB.
> I then looked for a "fat" folder inside the Windows
> folder, but I can't find it. Somehow the Windows folder
> is chewing up the whole drive. I have run disk cleanup.
> Any ideas?