Comments on: How To Reduce Disk Space Used By Windows Vista System Restore

By: Bill Barnes

Bill Barnes — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:58:22 +0000

This post was extremely helpful. After reloading Vista I could not figure out where 35gb were at and this post solved the mystery. I once again have a clean and spacious system!

Thank you so much!!!

Right on and power to the people.

By: Cor Blimey

Cor Blimey — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 05:38:58 +0000

Thanks for this. My Acer was sold with a stupid 30GB c: drive partition. I've been struggling to keep some spare c: drive space. compcln.exe gave me 2GB in seconds and without problems.
So 2 billion thanks…

By: Cor Blimey

Cor Blimey — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 05:33:00 +0000

I just ran compcln.exe (from Vista SP2) in the command box. It took a few seconds and released a life-saving 2GB, all "shadow storage"

By: Barticus

Barticus — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:42:49 +0000

This is an awesome post, thanks for explaining it so well and helping us novices out. I freed up over 20GB in 5 minutes.

By: Kris

Kris — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:28:48 +0000

@Kimboa, its been a while since I have used Vista, but you should be able to right click the icon and select "Run as Administrator". That should help you out.

By: Kimboa

Kimboa — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:43:29 +0000

Hi, when ever i type the command "vssadmin list shadowstorage" and enter. this is what i get.

"Error: You don't have the correct permission to run this command. please run this utility from a command that has elevated administrators previlages."

Can anyone help please. i seem to loose space everyday on my hard drive.
Thanx.

By: kike

kike — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:05:34 +0000

my computer has only 8 mb and everytime i type vssadmin shadow that thing, well nothing appears

By: rishi

rishi — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:34:57 +0000

URGENT HELP NEEDED
I have tried everything including the system restore thing on my C drive but still i am left with only 11Mb of disk drive, I have to do more than 30 disk clean up per day.

I read the thing about vssadmin and tried the command but nothing was displayed not even shadow copy, I'm struggling with this since the last 3 months, my laptop is Acer Aspite 5310 please i need help, since 3 months my disk space has been by 23 GB ! unable to locate where it has gone, I have downloaded AVG, SpyBot, treesize but nothing helped and had to delete them coz my hard disk has almost no space

By: Dana

Dana — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 02:26:57 +0000

I, too am in the 'red zone'; however…when I attempt to right click on the 'Run' command & choose 'Run As Admin'…I do not have that option. When I type the command in the 'Run'…the black screen pops up for a split second & disappears.

Help!

By: Paula Chess

Paula Chess — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 20:08:45 +0000

Dude, you're a life saver. I was in the red zone (3gb left) and searched for an answer for 2 days. You freed up 24GB of free space on my 3 month old 320GB computer. Would it be TMI if I said …I love you?

By: Shailja

Shailja — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 10:19:00 +0000

HI
my laptop's specifications are
Acer Aspire 5635WLMi
Windows Vista Home Premium

160 GB HDD ( 69 GB for the C Drive and 69.5 GB for the D Drive.)

My C drive has 34.6 GB of Used Space and 35.1 GB of Free space.

Out of 34.6 GB of Used Space, I can trace only 18.7 GB of memory usage. ( 34.6- 18.7 = 15.9 GB –> unknown)

At present my Maximum Shadow Copy storage space is 5GB.
I changed it from 10.467 GB to 5 GB after reading your article!

My Used shadow copy space changed from 9.246 to 4.479 GB after the above change.

I'm still not aware of 11.4 GB memory usage
(15.9 – 4.479= 11.4 GB)

Should I reduce my Maximum Shadow Copy storage space to 1GB or so..?!

I have deleted all the temporary files, internet temp files, unnecessary hidden files.
I have even finished the disc clean up for the C drive.

Please Help ASAP

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 19:15:53 +0000

Thank you – I was losing 4GB of space to system restore. All sorted now.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:59:27 +0000

Thanks mate, I have a 300GB drive showing 28GB free with on 70 GB of Data on. 190GB was the shadow copy. Size was showing as unbounded. Followed your instructions and resized the shadow copy to 20GB . Recovered all the free space… Thanks a bundled…. seems incredible that the size was set as unbounded?

By: vidhya

vidhya — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 17:41:31 +0000

my lap is always showing a disk full of 'c' local disk eventhough i m havin lots of free space in other disks. i m nt at all storin anything in dat disk.
please tell me suggestions to reduce my disk space.
please mail me at vidhya_2090@yahoo.in

By: arun basil jacob

arun basil jacob — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:09:02 +0000

I did a disc clean up last day in c and it also deleted my personal files in user's file and desktop.could you please send me how to recover my files.i have not created any back up discs.please mail to
arunbasiljacob@yahoo.in