is it possible to change the minimum diskspace requirement for the Windows Vista Home Premium installation? I.e. Normally, Vista requires about 15GB for an installation, but my full vLite installation of Vista HP only needs a total of about 4,2 GB with a 1.3 GB pagefile included, so I want to resize my partition to about 8-10GB so I have the remaining space available for my other partitions.
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What is the bare minimum for Vista Biz system partition? For Win7, its official requirement is "16 GB", but actually it's 5723MB. What's the case with Vista?
View 7 Replies View RelatedIs there any way to change the amount of disk space used by the System Restore system for storing Restore Points? Or to delete restore points? I want to try to ensure that I keep the restore point made immediately prior to updating to SP1, and that Point is the oldest one listed. I'm afraid that I'm about to try one thing too many that will cause Vista to delete that Point in order to remain within its set total size allotment.
View 5 Replies View RelatedIs there a possibility to change space between icons in windows explorer. I wanted to make it shorter, like in Windows XP. I added an imge to show what space I think about.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI realize this is a Vista NG but I can't find a Win 7 NG. If someone can point me to one,My computer is a stand-alone home computer, not networked to anything. On boot-up, I am asked for my password. I provide it and all is well. How do I eliminate that password request?
View 9 Replies View RelatedCan anyone tell me what is a good amount of memory to run Vista on a laptop....I know the canned answer is the more the better, but I am curious what others have experienced as the minimum amount to get the best performance.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have a DVD program and when I go to install it automatically wants to install in "F" location. I want to install it in "C" but don't know how.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm new to these forums and I bring some wacky case that just happened to me a month ago. I had a system with the following specs: Core2Duo E6550, 4GB DDR2 OCZ, 2x250GB WD HDD, 2x160GB Seagate Hdd, GeForce 9600GT running with a Gigabyte Motherboard with the Nvidia Nforce 650SLI chipset. The system reported very high temperatures since the beginning with coolermaster's mystique chassis so I put some extra fans in strategic positions and also changed the CPU fan with no great improvement.
Then I decided to switch to a cooler chipset and traded my motherboard with some friend and got another Gigabyte with Intel's P35 chipset. I switched the MoBos and installed everything just fine but I was too lazy to uninstall the chipset driver. So I just powered on the PC expecting a big fat BSOD... I was surprised the moment I noticed how windows vista started recognizing all my hardware again, all the drivers, one by one. So I just restarted again the machine and the machine worked just fine. So I tried the same on the XP partition and surprise!
Was looking on play.com for GTA4 and found the minimum requirements:
Windows XP with SP3 / Vista with SP1
1.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.4GHz AMD Athlon X2 64 or equivalent
1GB RAM (1.5GB for Vista)
16GB HDD Space
256MB nVidia 7900, ATi X1900 or equivalent
DVD-ROM Drive
Internet connection required for installation and online play.They seem pretty steep for minimum, more of a recommended. Especially the graphic cards, the 7900 is still quite a high end DX9 card.
Under the Vista specs, what is the minimum and maximum processor speed?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have Vista Home Premium preloaded on a Dell Inspiron 1520 with a 320gb hard drive. I would like to isolate the OS from my data by shrinking the OS partition to 42GB and creating another partition for my data. However, Vista's partitioning utility says the minimum I can shrink the existing partition to is around 176gb. I suspect that even though I have defragged the hard drive, there is some part of the OS that is sitting on the drive out far enough to cause this. I can't verify this because Vista's defrag utility doesn't show you a map of the drive during defrag. Anyone know of a way around this?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI would like to get vista to use the login style used in Win 2000 ... ctrl+alt+del gives a login box in which to enter the user name and password.
Win XP Pro had this option also, but, it's default was like vista (pictures showing all users).
I have been able to get the ctrl+alt+del part but instead of the login box I still get pictures.
I have a 320 GB HD. When I checked it, I only have 25 gigs of free space. However I can only find about 180 gigs of files/data. Any ideas as to how I lost 100 gigs of available of space? Just a couple of weeks ago I checked and I had plently of space. No recent installs, only recent changes are the removal of Mcaffee monitoring software and running JkDfrag.
View 9 Replies View Relatedi reformatted my whole c drive and then clean installed vista ultimate onto it and at start i had 268Gb out of 274Gb. now its gone to 243Gb and i've only installed a couple of programs and when i highlight everything in the c drive it says its 7.38GB. I've Defragged it a lot of times and the space keeps on going down.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit and an AMD X2 Dual-Core QL-60 processor (1.9 GHz).
In Vista Power options, there are 2 settings under Processor Power Management: Minimum and Maximum Processor State.
What are the optimal settings for these options? I fully understand that one might choose to have a lower maximum state when running on battery power to prolong battery life. I can think of no reason to have the maximum state below 100% when running plugged-in (unless, of course, one is trying to save electricity, keep the laptop cooler...)
How does minimum state work and what is the optimal setting? I know the default is 5% (but I've done a lot of Googling and cannot find an educated reason why 5% is the default.) Would it be correct for me to presume that if I set it at (say) 5%, then the processor will never operate below 5% of its capability (or whatever # of MHz is closest to 5% capacity) and will run all the way to the maximum specified state where needed? In other words, am I simply giving the processor the leverage to pick whatever power is required between its minimum and maximum specified states?
If my above assumption is correct and the processor will pick the optimum speed within the min/max range, why would I ever increase the minimum above 5% - and better still, why wouldn't I go right down to 1%? (Having said that, I read in one post that processors don't run in relative percentages - but 500Mhz, 800Mhz or whatever - so if my processor can only go as low as (say) 600MHz and my max is 1,900, then I guess if I set my minimum anywhere between 1 and 32%, it would never go below 600Mhz...)
I am trying to clean install Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit. If you read my other post, I got around the blue screen about page in non paged area. I got the bad ram stick out and got a new one for my computer. (Toshiba Satillite). And I install it and it goes good until completing installation then it hangs.
View 4 Replies View RelatedWhen I went from 32bit vista to 64bit vista I now have 15gb of unallocated space (partition?)to the left of my CO drive it has no data on it and letter designation,disk management only gives me the option to create "simple volume" for that 15gb.I would like to merge that 15gb back to my CO drive, only have 1 hard drive.I think because the15gb is to the left(in front) it wont let me expand the C partition.I hope I am explaining this right
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a Fujitsu Siemens laptop with 120GB hard drive. My problem is, there is only 78.2GB space left on it. I have hardly anything on it really so I am wondering where is has all gone. I have turned off the system restore and then turned it back on. I have run CCleaner, defragmented, done disk cleanup, so I dont know what to do next. I ran TreeSize and according to that there is 13,243.3MB taken up in the Windows folder and 10,099.7MB taken up in the Users folder, all the rest of the folder dont have that much in. Can anyone shed any light on this problem and tell me if I can safely delete any of these files to free up some disk space.
View 9 Replies View RelatedC drive is almost full. D has lots of free space. What sorts files/folders can I safely move from C to D without having any future access difficulties?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a different partition for the recovery. i was doing a windows re-install for another back-up I stuck some of my files in the recovery partition side of the hard drive. When you explored that partition, they would be there like on the normal hard drive.
Once i re-installed windows i went in to find the files and they are gone. But, they are still taking up the space on the hard drive. a few of the small files i tried to put in thre again and it said it was already there, but it's not. I don't need those files, i just want to delete them from that partition so i can free up the space. They are not hidden files either, i checked that. How could they be gone but still take up space?
I have an acer laptop which for various and assorted reasons I want to throw out the window. Problem of course is that I can't afford another laptop so I am forced to make the best of it. My main source of irritation right now is that I am constantly running low on disk space.........
View 7 Replies View RelatedWhen i bought the laptop the there were 3 partitions, due to the two seperate hard drives, i used Drive C:/ for all of my programs and just school files. Drive D:/ is for music and movies, and E:/ are the standard HP recovery discs that come on the Hard drive. Yesterday when i turned on my computer i got a message telling me i had low disk space on drive D:/. But i don't have that much on it. The day before i still had 160gb free on that drive. It has just all a sudden become filled.
I have run symantec antivirus, windows defender, ad-aware, and ccleaner to try to fix the problem. I have also defragged the drive, and gone in and manually looked at all of the hidden and system protected files. I see no reason that the frive should be full, because all the most i have on that drive is 60gb.
I run Vista home premium x64 and kept getting a low memory msg. for my recovery disk (D). I used vssadmin.cmd under administrative privaledge to increase D by 200GB. I still get the Low Disk Space warning and all backups fail due to lack of memory. What is the fix?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI don't see 20GB or more of extra features in Vista compared to XP so just what is using up so much more space in Vista?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI don't know if I can attach a file or not, but I'll try. There is an empty space near the top of I.E.7 in Vista that I have spent a lot of time trying to get rid of.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have a windows 7 Samsung NC110 with 240gig HD and 1 gig of RAM. I have noticed that my D: is showing that i only have 10.7 gig free of 117GIG. I have checked through the drive and I do not have anything like 106 gig installed on that partition. On my c: i have 46.1 ree of 100GIG.
View 4 Replies View RelatedIt happens to everyone eventually. Your hard drive is suddenly full and you are left wondering where did all my free space go? Now you must begin the task of deleting old files and folders to reclaim space but where do you start? In the past I would suggest manually checking the sizes of all of your folders so you know where to begin the hunt but now there is a great utility called WinDirStat that does the work for you. After inspecting a drive you are shown exactly how much data is in each folder, what file types are taking up the most space and even a visual representation of the files on your disk....
View 0 Replies View RelatedI m trying to reinstall windows vista and when im trying to delete all the partitions, it still shows that i have 3 unpartitioned space in which 2 unpartitioned space are empty without any space and i cannot delete them. However, i can still install windows on the 1st unpartitioned space which is of 160 GB.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to free up space on my C partition--I have about 25% left (8.5 gigs free out of 30). My Windows folder is taking up some 13 gigs, but none of the folders seem that large--System 32 and Explorer both have about 2 gigs. I have checked the folder options to display hidden system files, but still can't see anything. I have run Disk Cleanup a few times, as well as defragged. What can I do to see if any "hidden" files are taking up space, or to reduce the size? It seems like the folders in the C drive are not that
large--Program Files is about 2 gigs also.
I wanted a fast drive, so I bought a solid state drive. But I'm a poor college student and so got the 64GB one, which only has 58GB of space (because Lenovo put something on a separate partition which they say I cannot get rid of). The only thing installed is WinVist and MS Office 2007 (and McAfee and other progrms that came with the PC which weren't taking up much space).
Those two programs took up 30GB of space. Yesterday, some Windows backup thing started to run and said "There isn't enough room on this drive to do the backup, do you want to do it anyway? (I'm paraphrasing)". Since I like having things backed up, I said Yes anyway (and to see what happened). Now I have 1 GB free on my drive. Lenovo won't help me with Windows because that's "a configuration issue" and they don't do that. How do I get rid of this backup and get at least 20GB back? Then, how can I configure Windows and Office to take up less disk space?
It seems like Lenovo sold me a PC with a disk drive that doesn't have enough space to operate correctly. And they won't help me resolve the problem. Also, it seems that it is not as easy to separate your data in WinVista as magazine articles would have you believe. I tried configuring it so my "Documents" was on another external drive, but that proved too difficult.
I have a Compaq Presario laptop. my C hard drive is 60gb with it half full. that is not problem but my other drive. my D drive is 5gb and it only has 72.1mb left on it does anybody know a way to get space back? anybody know what I can do to stop it going down? i defragment the computer every month. i delete shadow copies i did consider compressing the folder but i read somewhere that is a bad idea what should I do to get the space back?
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