Humpty Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 You may want to have a look at your disk space usage with the app below. SequoiaView Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigathus Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 Hi all Been reading with great interest about hard drives free space shrinking, and used space mysteriously growing. I decided to clean up the (System Restore Check Points) and recovered over 9GB of space back http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/builds http://www.piriform.com/docs http://www.postimage.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony A Posted July 14, 2007 Author Share Posted July 14, 2007 That happens on my system after windows has run the ProcessIdleTasks command (LINK), which it does every 3 days or so, always a small group of files moved out to the right of the disk display. To see if thats what is causing it you could defrag, check the disk analysis, then run the ProcessIdleTasks (Run>Rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks) command manually, then check the disk analysis again and see if you see the result you mentioned with files moved to right of disk (open task manager and make sure the defrag processes are finished to know if the command has finished, takes about 5 mins). I found this a nuisance though as it undoes JKDefrags good work and am pleased to say I discovered Microsoft's TweakUI has an option to disable this - in the General section untick 'Optimise hard disk when idle'. Or you can edit the registry directly to disable it - LINK That is interesting. The "optimize hard disk when idle" actually un optimizes ( is there such a word ) the disk. I guess Tweak UI is going in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony A Posted July 14, 2007 Author Share Posted July 14, 2007 Hi all Been reading with great interest about hard drives free space shrinking, and used space mysteriously growing. I decided to clean up the (System Restore Check Points) and recovered over 9GB of space back Wow. What did you have System Restore set at for disk space to use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigathus Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 Wow. What did you have System Restore set at for disk space to use? Hi Anthony A I just had a look, and it was set at 12% (22893 MB) so I reduced it back to 1% (2469 MB) Initially Windows probably set it according to the size of my hard drive (200 GB) http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/builds http://www.piriform.com/docs http://www.postimage.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDPower Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 That is interesting. The "optimize hard disk when idle" actually un optimizes ( is there such a word ) the disk. Indeed. I went an awful long time not knowing why I kept getting that group of files being moved to a big area of free space. Admittedly the ProcessIdleTasks command can speed up Windows startup if run occasionly but I'd rather choose when that is (I have the command in a batch file and run it once every couple of months now), not have Windows do it twice a week and shaking up my JKD optimised disk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CeeCee Posted July 14, 2007 Share Posted July 14, 2007 I don't got that "EnableAutoLayout" value in registry. XP SP2. Path Copy TeraCopy Unlocker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fireryone Posted July 15, 2007 Share Posted July 15, 2007 Just install Tweak UI, then you wont have to manually edit the registry. fireryone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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