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Shrinking hdd space
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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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 ... 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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A neat little freebie utility to tell you exactly what is taking up hard
drive space and how much is TreeSize Free. http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml As suggested be careful of what you delete though but this utility will indeed tell you what is taking up harddrive space and how much. "Jim" wrote in message ... 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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Jim wrote:
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. You really only need about 1 GB for system restore. Download and run JDiskReport from http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/ That should pinpoint what's taking up the space. -- Lem Apollo 11 - 40 years ago: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ap...0th/index.html |
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"Jim" wrote in message ... 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. ... What else should I be looking at? Thanks for your help. I don't want to be simplistic, but how about a _much_ bigger hard drive per machine? |
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In ,
Jim typed: 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. It really sounds like malware at work; virus, trojan, worm, etc. Either that or the server is screwing up and shooting stuff out to the machines, but I'd more suspect malware. SE if far from suffiicient to be certain you have no malware, BTW. It's on ly part of the solution. What AV and A spyware have you been running? You'd better contain it somehow soon or every maching may have the problem. HTH, Twayne` |
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