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Old November 9th 09, 10:48 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
R. McCarty
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Default Shrinking hdd space

Sorry - posted without glasses. Sub ShouldN'T for should.

"R. McCarty" wrote in message news:...
In some cases you'll find large files in the \Windows\Installer folder.
Expected size varies depending on what apps you've installed, but an
average size is around 3-5 Gigabytes. I'd check the folder properties
and see how much content your system's folder contains.
*These are important modules and should be removed manually. You
can use a program MSIZap.exe to remove invalid entries. Carefully
read the instructions for the command line usage.

"Jim" wrote in message
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I have a business who has a hand full of Dell laptops. They all seem to
be
having the same issue. They have 40GB hard drives and Windows XP Pro
with
SP3. They are all connected to a Windows Server 2003 domain. They are
all
getting low disk space messages. I know that 40GB is not much but they
shouldn't be using that much space. One in particular had only a couple
hundred MB free. Deleted all the temp files, disabled hibernation and
turned
off system restore. It then had 5.5GB of free hdd space. I re-enabled
system restore but set a limit to 2GB. That next morning there was on
70MB
free space left. I disabled system restore agian and it is now showing
about
1GB free. Searching for large files or newly created files does not
really
come up with anything, at least nothing that is alarming. Since then a
couple more laptops started experiencing the same issue. They are
running
Symantec Endpoint 12. No infections have been found. None of their
desktops
seem to be having any issues with drive space. What else should I be
looking
at? Thanks for your help.





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