green areas in XP defragment

[allthumbs]

spybot search and destroy, spyware blaster, Norton Anti virus

[allthumbs]

beyond all this, is the update even going to do anything about the large amount of unmovable files?

[unlovedwarrior]

get superantispyware and scan in safe mode

here is a pic of the green i have. how much more do you have?

[Saving disk space -  old attachment deleted by admin]

[allthumbs]

I have 9 blocks of green that are wider than yours.

[allthumbs]

I personally tried the updates and they do not work. error 0x80246008 - any help?

[unlovedwarrior]

look here

[Calum]

Green files = paging file and hibernation file.
What are the sizes of each on each PC?
"Control Panel - System - Advanced - Settings (first one) - Advanced - Change" for your paging file.
And "Control Panel - Power Options - Hibernation" for your hibernation file.
Basically, one of your computers has more space devoted to one or both of these files than the other.
Neither the hibernation or paging file can be moved because it is always in use.
Hope this helps, and if you need a better explanation just ask and I'll try again.

[allthumbs]

Background Intelligent Transfer Service was disabled. That's what I get for drinking beer and tweaking profiles at the same time! however, I still have the original problem w/ green space. In response to Calum - Paging file is 6143 MB
Hibernation file is 2048 MB
Hibernation is not activated, though
Now that I have caught up on all the updates I was missing, I have even less available space
Is there a solution? The unmovable files are taking over !!!!

[allthumbs]

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    Re: how to move drive space
« Reply #11 on: July 03, 2007, 12:39:16 PM »   

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Quote from: allthumbs on July 03, 2007, 12:00:02 PM
to move My Documents - that's a good idea - just right click and cut and paste? To the other poster, what is the swap file?  Thanks for the help!


The swap file is the Virtual Memory file.

My Computer - Advanced - Performance - Advanced - Virtual Memory

Set it so the C: drive has a Custom size,

 initial size 2 MB maximum size 50 MB

then set it so that the D: drive has a Custom size

initial size 1.5 times the RAM size, maximum 1.5 times the RAM size.





This did it for the green areas! Thanks to all who helped! You are the best!!!!
 

[Calum]

Where did you get all that from all of a sudden?
Anyway, you're welcome if what I said helped at all.
6Gb was a fairly large swap file, you should definitely have reduced it which I gather you have done now.