Windows Vista System Volume Information struggle

[Hinata]

System Volume Information is eating up my computer. I am serious, I bought it on tuesday last week it had 22 GB used. Now it's 44 GB used, still I also have a 1.5 TB seagate ( 1500 GB) That I use for videos. But I use the main hard drive too, so WTF system voulume information. It also won't defrag 3 Files and I need help.

[Ch3vr0n]

it wont defrag those files for 1 simple reason. It just can't. Those files are locked for windows use system restore points only.

 

If you want you can reduce the available space for system restorepoints via the command console

 

Start > run > CMD

type "vssadmin" to see all commands (without the ")

to see the amount of space available for restorepoints per drive and how much already is used enter the following command (without the ")

 

"vssadmin list shadowstorage"

 

to resize the available ammount type the following

 

"vssadmin resize shadowstorage /for=X /on=Y /maxsize=amount"

 

where X = the drive you wish to reduce the size for eg: /for=C:

where Y = the drive where you want the space to be used (can be any drive, though same drive is recommended) eg: /on=C:

where amount = any amount in alphanumerical format eg: 500MB, 1GB, ...

 

for more info on resizing type "vssadmin resize shadowstorage"