Need help freeing up hard disk space

**mbonwick** · #21 4th Mar 2009, 13:13

As I said, look at removing Windows Restore Points.

Tablex · #22 4th Mar 2009, 17:30

I've had this problem before. I agree that system restore points take a lot of your hard drive. It can take up to 10GB of space depending on the settings.

~~jamesbraken~~ · #23 18th Mar 2009, 00:53

you can optimize your PC by deleting temp, %temp% and prefetch files or junk files and remove unwanted software from control panel > add/remove programs, if you don't use one of them and make free space in your hard drive you can use Tune up utililty software which will help for optimizing your PC.

**mbonwick** · #24 18th Mar 2009, 11:21

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tablex

I've had this problem before. I agree that system restore points take a lot of your hard drive. It can take up to 10GB of space depending on the settings.

It can actually take more, as it is worked out as a percentage of the total drive capacity, so if you had a 500GB drive, System restore could take up to 32.5 GB.

**bluefox** · #25 18th Mar 2009, 16:25

Here's something that you probably haven't thought of, check that you have System Restore turned off on all drives. This feature chews hard drive space up like there is no tomoro! Also turn off system hibernation in display settings/power settings, when the systems hibernates it dumps all the information on the ram onto the hard drive.