CCleaner messing with me

raident30 · Nov 23, 2011

i used CCleaner's driver wiper, free space only, simple overwrite (1 pass).. My HDD has 354gb free space before i used it after its done, i only now have 304GB of free space(WTF?).. where the hell did that 50gb go?

orion456 · Nov 24, 2011

Running chkdsk /F from a dos box and then rebooting often finds a lot of incorrectly mapped space. If that doesn't work, use TreeSize to map out your foldrs and see where large space use is taking place.

SteveLord · Nov 24, 2011

I use WinDirStat. Really fast and easy to use.

raident30 · Nov 24, 2011

will try those two out... its really making me mad where those 50gb went...

raident30 · Nov 24, 2011

orion456 said:
Running chkdsk /F from a dos box and then rebooting often finds a lot of incorrectly mapped space. If that doesn't work, use TreeSize to map out your foldrs and see where large space use is taking place.

sir, this is amazing, TreeSize worked and i found and deleted the 50gb lost, it was an anti virus log file.. too big eh?
whats a pagefile.sys and hiberfile.sys? do i need to delete them? they both eat up 4gb each..

how about the system volume information? its eating up 8gb

Super Nade · Nov 24, 2011

pagefile.sys is thw windows page-file i.e. virtual memory. It will be recreated if you delete it. Likewise with hiberfyle.sys (hibernation).

raident30 · Nov 24, 2011

Super Nade said:
pagefile.sys is thw windows page-file i.e. virtual memory. It will be recreated if you delete it. Likewise with hiberfyle.sys (hibernation).

thanks for the info! how about the system volume information?

TollhouseFrank · Nov 24, 2011

raident30 said:
thanks for the info! how about the system volume information?

don't touch that one. you do want a functioning windows install, right?

As for the hibernation file, if you never put your computer to sleep/hibernation (like myself, it's on when i'm at it, off when i'm not), then you can safely turn off hibernation in power configuration and it won't create a hibernation file.

Super Nade · Nov 24, 2011

raident30 said:
thanks for the info! how about the system volume information?

Exactly as Frank said. Leave that one alone or you will have to reinstall Windows.

corruption · Nov 24, 2011

Not true. In XP all that "System Volume Information" contains are restore points. You can shrink its size by purging your restore files.

*EDIT: What antivirus are you using that kept a 50GB log file? (Don't delete the "System Volume Information" folder, but I've deleted its contents many times with no ill effects.....system restore was off when I did though.)

raident30 · Nov 24, 2011

corruption said:
Not true. In XP all that "System Volume Information" contains are restore points. You can shrink its size by purging your restore files.

*EDIT: What antivirus are you using that kept a 50GB log file? (Don't delete the "System Volume Information" folder, but I've deleted its contents many times with no ill effects.....system restore was off when I did though.)

i use an avira free antivirus

c627627 · Nov 24, 2011

raident30 said:
sir, this is amazing, TreeSize worked and i found and deleted the 50gb lost, it was an anti virus log file.. too big eh?
whats a pagefile.sys and hiberfile.sys? do i need to delete them? they both eat up 4gb each..

how about the system volume information? its eating up 8gb

Do not mess with system volume information directly.
You can disable Windows Restore. You can disable Windows hybernation. Post if you don't know how.

After disabling hybernation, I think I still had to do this under Windows 7 DOS prompt:
powercfg -h off
to get rid of hiberfil.sys

I did not have to do that from Windows XP DOS.

c627627 · Nov 24, 2011

Depending on operating system, Avira log files can be deleted from
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\LOGFILES
or
C:\ProgramData\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\LOGFILES

raident30 · Nov 24, 2011

c627627 said:
Depending on operating system, Avira log files can be deleted from
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\LOGFILES
or
C:\ProgramData\Avira\AntiVir Desktop\LOGFILES

thanks for the infos!

TomBrooklyn · Nov 28, 2011

Is the Pagefile Size Adjustable?

Super Nade said:
pagefile.sys is thw windows page-file i.e. virtual memory. It will be recreated if you delete it. Likewise with hiberfyle.sys (hibernation).

Isn't the size of the pagefile adjustable?

c627627 · Nov 28, 2011

I've experimented with messing with several years ago but concluded that it's best left alone as it is.

raident30 · Nov 29, 2011

c627627 said:
I've experimented with messing with several years ago but concluded that it's best left alone as it is.

so i just set it on automatic?

c627627 · Nov 29, 2011

If you didn't change it, I would not mess with it.

If your goal is to save space then I would disable restore, get rid of restore points and maybe disable hybernation but I would not mess with pagefile settings.

raident30 · Nov 29, 2011

c627627 said:
If you didn't change it, I would not mess with it.

If your goal is to save space then I would disable restore, get rid of restore points and maybe disable hybernation but I would not mess with pagefile settings.

do the computer delete old restore points or do i manually delete them?

c627627 · Nov 29, 2011

To delete all restore points

Open System by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button, right-clicking Computer, and then clicking Properties.

In the left pane, click System protection. Administrator permission required If you're prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

Under Protection Settings, click Configure.

Under Disk Space Usage, click Delete.

Click Continue, and then click OK.

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