Re: [Thinkpad] Re: A21e abrupt 20% increase in "System Files"

Is this by any chance an NTFS system?

(Apologies if you've already answered this, but I have not yet received the
post to which Aryeh was replying, so I could be missing other parts of the
exchange as well.)

Deanna
dberman@4dv.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Aryeh Goretsky" <goretsky@adelphia.net>
To: "Lawrence Silberstein" <montagefilm@mail.com>; <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 13:19 PM
Subject: [Thinkpad] Re: A21e abrupt 20% increase in "System Files"

> Hello,
>
> Have you tried installing a disk space analysis/visualization/management
> program to see if it can tell you which directory or directories are
> increasing in size?
>
> Also, have you tried setting the virtual memory swap file to a fixed size,
> say 1.5 times that of physical memory?
>
> Regards,
>
> Aryeh Goretsky
>
>
> At 01:00 PM 3/23/2004, Lawrence Silberstein wrote:
>
> >Aryeh,
> >
> >Yes. Did all that.
> >
> >Latest: I did the bullet and reinstalled W2K SP4; and reinstalled
programs
> >and drivers.
> >
> >Still a similar anomaly: Just dropped again from 29% "available space" to
> >19% available space.
> >
> >Puzzled. Uncertain what to try next.
> >
> >Larry
> >
> >------------------->
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Aryeh Goretsky
> >Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 16:09:08 -0700
> >To: montagefilm@mail.com, thinkpad@stderr.org
> >Subject: Re: A21e abrupt 20% increase in "System Files"
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Have you tried uninstalling all third-party security and utility
software
> > > and clearing all the temporary file folders for the operating system,
web
> > > browser and so forth? I recall reading someplace that certain utility
and
> > > and anti-virus type programs had problems with creating and then not
> > removing
> > > temporary files. This could be a symptom of that problem.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Aryeh Goretsky
>
> [...snip...]
>
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