So, as you may remember, a week or two ago I installed Windows Vista SP2 on my Lenovo X61 Tablet. I noted how suddenly the amount of free hard drive space I had jumped from 80 something gigabytes to 99 gigabytes. I thought this was odd and looked up the reasons for it. But over these past weeks my hard drive space has been fluctuating. It went from 99 gigs free to 94 gigs free and kept fluctuating up and down (but more downward fluctuation than upwards) so that now I have 83 gigs free.
I have an external drive for large files so I don’t really have much on my laptop’s internal hard drive. I have maybe copied over about 1 gigabyte of pictures, that I share with my girlfriend, but this does not account for my free space dropping by 16 gigabytes. I hope that this is not a “feature” of SP2 because random fluctuations of 16 gigs on my hard drive are not things that I want happening on my computer. hopefully I am going insane and this is all a big mistake on my part. But if not oh shizzzz.
*EDIT* 7:00PM GMT + 8
About 2 hours ago I ran compcln.exe, a utility that comes with Windows Vista Service Pack 2. What I got was the free space on my hard drive went from 83.4 gigabytes up to 85.6 gigabytes. Then I went and took a 2 hour nap and once again the amount of free space I have has gone down to 81.9 Gigabytes. I am starting to wonder if this has something to do with System Restore space. eh I dunno I am so confused. I have to do some Google digging on this issue. I never noticed this happening prior to Vista SP2. Gah, it seems that Microsoft may have done something weird again.
*EDIT* 1:17AM GMT + 8
And now my space is up to 83.2 Gigabytes from 81.9 and I have done nothing at all, except watch a bad japanese movie, called Death Note. Maybe a few temp files commited suicide because it was so painful. It was a really sad endings. One of those everybody dies endings. Eh whatever, can someone please tell me why my hard drive space is randomly changing?
Peace out ya’ll!
zip it up and zip it out!