WIN 7 Exaggerates Its Size ...How & Why Please ???

[Trimble Bracegirdle]

Opening a Explorer window displaying the Drive contents

of the Windows 7 installation & then 'selecting' the folders &

asking for 'properties' gives a much bigger total size than that given when

looking at the Drive's properties in 'My Computer' or from a CHKDSK report.



Its something to do with Links within Windows pointing to Files & Folders

more than once so things get counted repeatedly ...some of them 'Pretend' ..

not there at all.

My actual WINDOWS 7 Ultimate 64bit just installed Total is

10.1 GB with a fixed 1GB Pagefile.sys & no Hiberfile.sys at all.

I get 14GB when counting total 'selected' files.



Can some body explain please?

(\__/)

(='.'=)

(")_(") mouse (He's confused)

 

[philo]

Trimble Bracegirdle wrote:

> Opening a Explorer window displaying the Drive contents

> of the Windows 7 installation & then 'selecting' the folders &

> asking for 'properties' gives a much bigger total size than that given when

> looking at the Drive's properties in 'My Computer' or from a CHKDSK report.

>

> Its something to do with Links within Windows pointing to Files & Folders

> more than once so things get counted repeatedly ...some of them 'Pretend' ..

> not there at all.

> My actual WINDOWS 7 Ultimate 64bit just installed Total is

> 10.1 GB with a fixed 1GB Pagefile.sys & no Hiberfile.sys at all.

> I get 14GB when counting total 'selected' files.

>

> Can some body explain please?

> (\__/)

> (='.'=)

> (")_(") mouse (He's confused)

>

>

>







System Restore files I imagine