something hogging disk space

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Gordon Biggar

I run a VMware setup with Vista (64-bit) Home Premium as the Host system,
and Vista (32-bit) Home Premium as the guest system. Although I have only
16 GB devoted to the guest system, at one point recently I was only using
not quite half of that space. Now, when I click on Computer, I am finding
that there is literally no free space. If I delete some software, this
freed up space gets consumed also.

How do I go about finding what it is that is clogging this allocated space?
The only changes that I have made to the guest system is the addition of
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware software.

Gordon Biggar
Houston, Texas
 
Gordon Biggar said:
I run a VMware setup with Vista (64-bit) Home Premium as the Host system,
and Vista (32-bit) Home Premium as the guest system. Although I have only
16 GB devoted to the guest system, at one point recently I was only using
not quite half of that space. Now, when I click on Computer, I am finding
that there is literally no free space. If I delete some software, this
freed up space gets consumed also.

How do I go about finding what it is that is clogging this allocated
space? The only changes that I have made to the guest system is the
addition of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware software.

Gordon Biggar
Houston, Texas
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Sounds like System Restore is eating up space.
 
Yes, I have gone that route to free up space, but it almost immediately
disappears. I have even deleted software, but that space disappears also.
Very frustrating.

I ran msconfig, and there are only five programs running at startup; and
under Services, all of the programs that are running are from Microsoft.

GB
 
Disk Cleaner gives one the ability to delete all but the last Restore Point,
but this has not seemed to make any difference.

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Gordon said:
I run a VMware setup with Vista (64-bit) Home Premium as the Host
system, and Vista (32-bit) Home Premium as the guest system. Although I
have only 16 GB devoted to the guest system, at one
point recently I was only using not quite half of that space. Now,
when I click on Computer, I am finding that there is literally no
free space. If I delete some software, this freed up space gets
consumed also.
How do I go about finding what it is that is clogging this
allocated space? The only changes that I have made to the guest
system is the addition of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware software.
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SequoiaView and/or JDiskReport can show you where the space is being used.
 
You might try the following:

Right click CMD.EXE and select Run as Administrator,
Type - VSSADMIN LIST SHADOWSTORAGE,
This will tell you how much space is being used by System Restore,
It can take up to 15% of all the free space.
You can reduce the size by the following:
Type - VSSADMIN RESIZE SHADOWSTORAGE /FOR=C: /ON=C: /MAXSIZE=2GB
You will get a message saying it was approved.
Then Reboot.
This will give you about a weeks worth of restore points.
You can do a MAXSIZE up to 10GB if you need more restore points.
 
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