Need of space on c

[Nils Krag Møller]

My c-drive was 6GB when I started. Now it has diminished to measly 700 mb.
Which made me look for big chuncks of stuff to delete.

I look in all the files on the C-drive, moved what could be moved and
deleted what I found safe.

But I also stumbled into lots of mbs in a starnge-looking folder: C:\System
Volume Information\_restore{299AB-... }

I found files called RP161, RP162 ... RP169. Can I delete any of the many
repetitive folders without hurting the system? This would really give me
some room to breathe. I suppose that I would have to cut out the file RP161
first as it is the oldest...

Yours,
Nils

[sqr]

to gane some space back

--file search for *.tmp,*.bak amd *.chk files and delete them
--Turn of Hibernation
--Turn off system restore, as this is a waste of code anyways
--and if you get brave lower the pagefile size.


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"Nils Krag Møller" > wrote in message
...
> My c-drive was 6GB when I started. Now it has diminished to measly 700 mb.
> Which made me look for big chuncks of stuff to delete.
>
> I look in all the files on the C-drive, moved what could be moved and
> deleted what I found safe.
>
> But I also stumbled into lots of mbs in a starnge-looking folder:
C:\System
> Volume Information\_restore{299AB-... }
>
> I found files called RP161, RP162 ... RP169. Can I delete any of the many
> repetitive folders without hurting the system? This would really give me
> some room to breathe. I suppose that I would have to cut out the file
RP161
> first as it is the oldest...
>
> Yours,
> Nils
>
>

[Tom Foolery]

Nils, you really need a bigger drive.


"Nils Krag Møller" > wrote in message
...
> My c-drive was 6GB when I started. Now it has diminished to measly 700 mb.
> Which made me look for big chuncks of stuff to delete.
>
> I look in all the files on the C-drive, moved what could be moved and
> deleted what I found safe.
>
> But I also stumbled into lots of mbs in a starnge-looking folder:
C:\System
> Volume Information\_restore{299AB-... }
>
> I found files called RP161, RP162 ... RP169. Can I delete any of the many
> repetitive folders without hurting the system? This would really give me
> some room to breathe. I suppose that I would have to cut out the file
RP161
> first as it is the oldest...
>
> Yours,
> Nils
>
>

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

Nils Krag Møller wrote:
> My c-drive was 6GB when I started. Now it has diminished to measly
> 700 mb. Which made me look for big chuncks of stuff to delete.
>
> I look in all the files on the C-drive, moved what could be moved and
> deleted what I found safe.
>
> But I also stumbled into lots of mbs in a starnge-looking folder:
> C:\System Volume Information\_restore{299AB-... }
>
> I found files called RP161, RP162 ... RP169. Can I delete any of the
> many repetitive folders without hurting the system? This would really
> give me some room to breathe. I suppose that I would have to cut out
> the file RP161 first as it is the oldest...
>

Nils

The files in the System Volume Information folder are the backup files
created by the System Restore program. You can automatically delete all but
the latest file safely with the Disk Cleanup utility. Go to Start/All
Programs/Accessories/System Tools/Disk Cleanup. Click the More Options tab
and then the Cleanup button in the System Restore section.


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Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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