Disapearing space!

[kaiweiler]

access is denied
I only have the one user account and it is admin, why would I be denied?

[mbucari1]

access is denied
I only have the one user account and it is admin, why would I be denied?

vista doesn't really let you use the admin account, so your name must be something other than "Administrator".

take a look at my screen shot...


if you still have trouble, type

cacls "c:\system volume information" /e /g UserName:f

with the quotes and replacing UserName with the name you see in the command prompt default path.

Also, you shouldn't be locked out of MSOCahe, but it won't give you back that much space. ~500MB for office 2007 and ~250 for office 2003

[mrbombastic]

dam nice theme, but you could check for viruses as well just in case.

[kaiweiler]

dam nice theme, but you could check for viruses as well just in case.

That's the default Windows Vista theme, for Ultimate anyway, not sure if the others are different...but yeah it is pretty slick
The computer is free from viruses and I do regular scans of both Spybot S&D and Ad-Aware.

I may install Partition Magic or something and see if that can recognize the space then hopefully create/format some partitions to get my space back...
we will see.

[Appzalien]

I once had a similar problem with XP and the space kept growing until the C: disk was full. I don't know if Vista has the same thing but the place where XP was growing was:

C:\Windows\System32\LogFiles\WMI

and the log file was tracefile.log

It had to do with bootvis crashing and getting locked in a continuous scan though so it probably doesn't have anything to do with Vista.