Looks and feels good - but - Question 1

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N2O2

I am trying out Vista Beta 5384 on a borrowed PC for a few days. Looks
colorful and performs fast!

One initial oddity: the system size keeps increasing every time the PC is
used, especially online even though all temporary files, cookies and TIF
included, are cleared. The Page File is on a physically separate drive.

The system grows by about 50 - 100 MB every time online! I am not able to
check which folder is growing. I believe (though I'm not too sure) that
System Restore and hibernation are. I noticed the changes because I heard
about this from the associate earlier.

Any insight would be illuminative.

Regards and thanks in anticipation.

N2O2
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May also be System Restore if the user is modifying many files, as SR keeps
some sort of backup of each file. But more than likely indexing.
 
Good catch.

Mark D. VandenBeg said:
May also be System Restore if the user is modifying many files, as SR
keeps some sort of backup of each file. But more than likely indexing.
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There is a known issue in the beta2 builds where *ntfy.gthr files sometimes
don’t get cleaned up and can fill your hard drive. You can manually delete
them, the ones that are needed will be in-use.

1. Go to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications (you may have to
go into folder options to set it to show hidden files and folders)
2. Open Windows folder (click continue)
3. Open Projects folder
4. Open SystemIndex folder (click continue)
5. Delete all the .gthr files (ex. SystemIndex.Ntfy7.gthr)
6. Any files that say they are in use, just skip those (they’re the ones
actively being used by the system, so you don’t want to delete those anyway).
The ones that aren’t in use which you will delete are the one’s taking up
all the HD space.

Hope this helps
 
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