A couple times, I've seen a Windows 7 computer with no free hard drive space and tons of space used in c:\windows\temp. The answer is in this article:
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3112358/microsoft-windows/windows-7-log-file-compression-bug-can-fill-up-your-hard-drive.html
It's some sort of bug in Windows. The fix is:
1) stop the Windows Module Installer service
2) move all the files out of c:\windows\logs\cbs (I typically move them to c:\windows\logs\cbs.old)
3) delete all the files in c:\windows\temp
4) reboot
Showing posts with label hard drive space. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hard drive space. Show all posts
Thursday, November 1, 2018
Saturday, February 28, 2009
low free space on C drive of SBS box
After troubleshooting SBS boxes with low space on the C drive, I have found three good places to look for freeing up space.
1) Look in C:\WINDOWS\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC1 for unneeded/old log files
2) move the windows search index files. Go to the control panel and in the "indexing options" applet, click on advanced, and change the index location. After finishing, restart the search service. This saved me a full 1 GB on an SBS 2003 machine.
2) move the windows search index files. Go to the control panel and in the "indexing options" applet, click on advanced, and change the index location. After finishing, restart the search service. This saved me a full 1 GB on an SBS 2003 machine.
3) move the ISA tracing log files using this method - http://davehope.co.uk/Blog/move-isa-tracing-location/
Labels:
hard drive space,
indexing,
indexing options,
ISA trace,
isalog,
logs,
SBS,
search,
W3SVC
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Rescue and Recovery takes up huge amounts of room on Lenovos
I'm working with a Lenovo ThinkPad T60 right now. It has a 68 GB hard drive with only 5 GB free. After some investigation, I found a folder called RRBackups was taking up 22+ GB of space. It's supposed to be some kind of baller additional backup program. Well, I have my own backup scheme, I don't need this one. So I uninstalled it, rebooted, and then deleted the RRBackups folder and voila - there is now 27 GB free on the drive.
Labels:
hard drive space,
IBM,
Lenovo,
Rescue and Recovery,
T60,
Thinkpad
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