Wasted Memory in Virtual Store

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JIMMY O

My 500G Hard Drive is almost full. I have 4 users in the home and each has
duplicate memory saved in User/AppData/VirtualStore/Program Files. This
duplication is eating up my memory.

I need help to:
1) stop this duplication
2) safely remove the duplication

Regards
 
JIMMY O said:
My 500G Hard Drive is almost full. I have 4 users in the home and each
has
duplicate memory saved in User/AppData/VirtualStore/Program Files. This
duplication is eating up my memory.
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First of all some terminology and location corrections. You are NOT talking
about "memory" you are talking about Hard Disk Storage space, and the
location of that folder is C:\Users\{User
Name}\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files, not where you said it is.

Secondly it would seem to me that those folders are where the User data for
each of the programs there are stored.
I need help to:
1) stop this duplication
2) safely remove the duplication
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Firstly I don't think you can stop this "duplication" except by not having
different users, and secondly, on my machine that folder is taking up TEN MB
ONLY.
I suggest that your HDD is being filled up by something else.
Try deleting all the Restore points (which will also remove the shadow copy
files which can be huge) and see how much disk space that releases.
 
Hi,

That's not duplication, that's how applications are virtualized to run in a
Vista environment. They are run under the user environment, not the system,
so each user that employs that application would have the program listed
there. I suspect one of the programs is storing a large amount of data
there, or installed itself there (did any of your applications need to be
reinstalled under each username?). You'll need to go folder by folder to
discern which one it is.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
 
JIMMY O said:
My 500G Hard Drive is almost full. I have 4 users in the home and each
has
duplicate memory saved in User/AppData/VirtualStore/Program Files. This
duplication is eating up my memory.

I need help to:
1) stop this duplication
2) safely remove the duplication

Regards
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Have you run cleanmgr.exe ?
 
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