One of the improvements that Microsoft has improved upon over the other Windows releases are Windows Vista’s backup features that are incorporated in to System Restore. The backup features are turned on by default so with all of the automatic backing up Windows Vista does, it won’t take long to lose quite a bit of disk space. It may not be a bad idea to go in and delete the old backup files,shadow copy files and restore points to increase your available disk space.You’re pretty safe removing the following files in Windows Vista:
- Downloaded Program Files
- Temporary Internet Files
- Microsoft Error Reporting Temporary Files
- System error memory dump files
- System error minidump files
- Temporary files (close your programs first!)
- Per user archived Windows Error Reporting files
- Per user queued Windows Error Reporting files (hey, it’ll probably crash again in the future anyway)
- System archived Windows Error Reporting files
- System queued Windows Error Reporting files
Windows Vista makes this task a very simple one. here’s how:
- Go to Windows Vista Start
- In the Instant Search text box, type: Disk cleanup
- On the Disk Cleanup Options page, click either My files only or Files from all users on this computer. You’ll clean up more disk space if you work with files from all users, but you need administrative credentials. If prompted, provide administrative credentials.
- After a few seconds, the Disk Cleanup page appears. Scroll through the available options, and select the check box for anything you’re ready to delete. If you’re not sure, leave it.
- Select the “More Options” tab.
- Click the option titled: Clean Up under System Restore and Shadow Copies
- In the confirmation screen, click “Delete”.
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