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I have a Lenova laptop with Vista. In the my computer window it shows that the hard drive is 6 gigs away from full on a 150 gig HD but when I select all files and view properties it shows only 40 gigs worth of files. Is there a glitch or patch anyone knows of because someone asked me about this with XP a couple months back and I didn't have an answer. Now I'm curious. Thanks for any help Justin If you don't have the option to show hidden files and folders selected, you will only see files with normal attributes. That could explain a lot since several large files (hibernation, virtual memory swapfile) are hidden and could be several gigabytes each.  SignatureRichard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] rgharper@gmail.com * NEW! Catch my blog ... http://msmvps.com/blogs/rgharper/ * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups * The Website - http://rgharper.mvps.org/ >I have a Lenova laptop with Vista. In the my computer window it shows that > the hard drive is 6 gigs away from full on a 150 gig HD but when I select [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Justin Thank you, I did select to show hidden files. Any other ideas? > If you don't have the option to show hidden files and folders selected, you > will only see files with normal attributes. That could explain a lot since [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > > > Justin Did you uncheck "Hide protected operating system files"? I like a free program called Treesize Free http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml Install this and "run as administrator" it will show the size of all folders and files. however, it won't show the size of your pagefile or hybernate file. These will show if you uncheck the above. SignaturePaul > Thank you, I did select to show hidden files. Any other ideas? > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > > > > > Justin |
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