calius 0 Posted March 14, 2006 Share Posted March 14, 2006 I have a PC with a very low amount of space for the system windows install drive, so I set XP to allocate cache space on other drives other than c: All is cool but while fiddling I managed to set c: to be used by XP for this purpose by accident. Low and behold it went down alot and cutting a long story show I had 2.7 gig free before but now only 1.4 gig showing free. So I killed the setting for that drive not to be used for cache (as it was before I accidently turned it on again)and then deleted temp files etc etc. Even though I rebooted and c: isnt being used for cache now .. its still reads 1.4gig and I know for a fact that 2.7gig is actualy free/available (I went through a mass clean up of crap installs on XP and temp files etc to actualy free upto 2.7 gig just before I made my mistake of caching to c:) . I did have this before once and managed to get the space back (or at least get windows to realise 2.7 gig actualy IS free on the drive). My question is ... I cant seem to make that missing space re-register as avaialible .. can anyone fire at me some tweaks, things to edit in XP .. tools ... well anything to force it to see the missing space. PS - the harddisk isnt faulty as this happened before but I cant reproduce a fix. All feedback welcomed Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rocky 1,224 Posted March 14, 2006 Share Posted March 14, 2006 I would use treesize to identify where exactly that space is being used up. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
calius 0 Posted March 14, 2006 Author Share Posted March 14, 2006 OK mate ... im not PC iliterate but "treesize" isnt something that hits me to know where to go or look or what to go and run to get that information (I probably removed that info from memory to instert pin number for credit card! LOL) ... Could you exand on that .. just treat it like I realy am PC shy for now! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Specter 0 Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 Go to Start, and right click My Computer. Choose Properties. Go to Advanced. Click the Performance Button, choose the Advanced Tab, go down to the bottom and click the Virtual Memory and click the Change button. Once there, highlight the C drive, read down, and choose the radio button that says No Paging File. Click Set. If you forget to click set, it won't take. Move back up and highlight the area where you want the paging file. Another Physical Drive would be best, but another partition will work well also. Choose the Radio Button that says Custom Size, and set the number in each box to 3032. This is the best performance option for XP, no matter how much RAM you have. Click Set again. Then click OK. Just make sure the drive you choose has 3032MB of space on it for the file. Click Apply. Shut your PC all the way down for 15 seconds, and reboot. That should have you fixed up. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rocky 1,224 Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 OK mate ... im not PC iliterate but "treesize" isnt something that hits me to know where to go or look ← Google dude, Google Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NurFACE 0 Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 Go to Start, and right click My Computer. Choose Properties. Go to Advanced. Click the Performance Button, choose the Advanced Tab, go down to the bottom and click the Virtual Memory and click the Change button. Once there, highlight the C drive, read down, and choose the radio button that says No Paging File. Click Set. If you forget to click set, it won't take. Move back up and highlight the area where you want the paging file. Another Physical Drive would be best, but another partition will work well also. Choose the Radio Button that says Custom Size, and set the number in each box to 3032. This is the best performance option for XP, no matter how much RAM you have. Click Set again. Then click OK. Just make sure the drive you choose has 3032MB of space on it for the file. Click Apply. Shut your PC all the way down for 15 seconds, and reboot. That should have you fixed up. ← Isn't it 3072 the best performance set number since it's a factor of 8,64,128,256....etc. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CR6 0 Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 Other ways to make space on C: are to 1) Adjust your recycle bin space (1% is usually fine for big drives these days) 2) empty out your temp folder in your Windows folder. 3) Move your temp internet files folder out of C: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
calius 0 Posted March 15, 2006 Author Share Posted March 15, 2006 @Spectre - Cheers mate, I do know that part .. that was already done and sorted I meant that I did re-set C: to be used by accident thus losing the space I want to get back now ive set cache to another drive and not using c: again. @CR6 - cheers again, yep thats all been done but still space missing (this is my riddle im stuck in). @Rocky - Ok mate thats perfect now I can see what the hells going on better I can sort it. PS - "Google Dude" ... I think thats "Use a search engine you lazy git" .. Cheers fellaz. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CrowmanUK 0 Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 Have a look for any hidden files on the root of the drive mate, I moved my virtual memory to another hard drive but windows left the a huge pagefile on the C drive, about 1.5 gig I think it was. Could be worth checking for that Quote Link to post Share on other sites
calius 0 Posted March 16, 2006 Author Share Posted March 16, 2006 Have a look for any hidden files on the root of the drive mate, I moved my virtual memory to another hard drive but windows left the a huge pagefile on the C drive, about 1.5 gig I think it was. Could be worth checking for that ← Crowman .. that was the little fella causing all the trouble (he says like a plumber under a sink) .... Under folder options I had "show hidden files or folders" selected thinking I was seeing everything .. I missed un-ticking "hide protected system files" DOH! ... there it was .. one big fat pointless page file finaly being thrown into view looking at me like - ..... bosh - killed. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CrowmanUK 0 Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 Just put the cheque in the post mate Quote Link to post Share on other sites
calius 0 Posted March 17, 2006 Author Share Posted March 17, 2006 I thought we had it pretty bad with human traficking already to be fair. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CrowmanUK 0 Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 TISH BOOM! I thank you Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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