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Free disk space slowly decreasing?

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StevenYoo

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I'm running XP Pro and my disk free space on my C: is slowly decreasing. I had 2 gigs free about a week ago. I installed nothing and now it's down to 1,433 megs. I cleared all disk cache and all temporary downloaded files.

Does the paging file slowly increase in size or something?

Any way to stop the growing mass that is Windows XP?
 


<< Any way to stop the growing mass that is Windows XP? >>




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Ok, so I'm a copycat. I too have noticed the gradual increase in space that XP requires. I'm sure there are multiple causes for this, tracking them all down is something that I have neither the inclination nor time to tackle. Good luck!
 
go to regedit
hkey_local_machine\system\currentcontrolset\control\session manager\memory management\

make "clearpagefileatshutdown" 1

that is, if it's there at all, I think it is but I can't really remember. I'm on 2k now so I can't check.

Edit: Oh yeah, reboot after that 😀
 


<< go to regedit
hkey_local_machine\system\currentcontrolset\control\session manager\memory management\

make "clearpagefileatshutdown" 1

that is, if it's there at all, I think it is but I can't really remember. I'm on 2k now so I can't check.

Edit: Oh yeah, reboot after that 😀 >>



ok, i did that. Thanks for the tip. Any way to recover the space that windows has already eaten?
 
Clearing the pagefile at system shutdown is a security precaution, the space will only be taken again by windows when you boot (and it will slow you down a bit as it's not likely the pagefile won't be fragmented).

As someone else posted, this is most likely system restore keeping backups. You can configure to what % of your disk you want system restore to use, you should knock that down some and should see the space free back up. I don't recommend turning it off entirely, it is a usefull feature.

Bill
 
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