Windows update on Vista?

Cobra · **Joined:** Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:57 pm **Posts:** 14767

It's killing my hard drive space

How often does this crap happen and how much space does eat up?
I had to unplug the internet from it

I never had this on win 98

Kevin77 · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:43 pm

Wow, a windows update is affecting your drive space? You should be keeping 10% free to defrag anyways so I'm guessing you're filled up the last KB. :lol:

ResplendentRegina · **Joined:** Sun Nov 25, 2007 6:54 pm **Posts:** 1525

np with Vista updates here, maybe its a virus :cry:

Cobra · **Joined:** Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:57 pm **Posts:** 14767

ResplendentRegina wrote:

np with Vista updates here, maybe its a virus :cry:

How much space is it suppose to take and how often will it happen?
and how much space is the OS taking up in a new pc?

ResplendentRegina · **Joined:** Sun Nov 25, 2007 6:54 pm **Posts:** 1525

Cobra wrote:

ResplendentRegina wrote:

np with Vista updates here, maybe its a virus :cry:

How much space is it suppose to take and how often will it happen?
and how much space is the OS taking up in a new pc?

This is the info I found on the net

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Vista takes between 6GB and 8GB depending upon what version of Vista you have.

Most of the time the problem begins when people don't understand that the size of the hard drive that is advertised is not really the size that shows up on your system. The actual size that is reported by Windows is roughly 7% less than the advertised size.

For example, if you purchased a "100GB Hard Drive" the actual size of that hard drive under Windows is actually 93GB. So now subtract another 8GB or so for Vista and you will show that you have about 85GB of hard drive space available.

So people say "I only have 85GB of hard drive space available after a clean install so Vista took up 15GB of hard drive space!?!" The answer is "No, you only had a 93GB hard drive to start with.

As far as updates goes, they shouldnt be taking up that much I wouldnt think. How much hard drive space are you working with?

Cobra · **Joined:** Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:57 pm **Posts:** 14767

The first update stole 800 mb got me down to 22kb :shock:

the next day without being on the internet it stole 500 mb after i deleted some stuff
so at this rate my OS should be 16 GB by 12/31/08 if i don't turn Auto update off :shock:

ResplendentRegina · **Joined:** Sun Nov 25, 2007 6:54 pm **Posts:** 1525

Hate to hear that. Im not a "fan" of Vista but have never heard of that happening. Vista is just more of a "getting used to" thing IMO. I use Vista and it hasnt done anything like this for me. I even did a little research and havent found any other cases where this has happened. Sorry I couldnt be more help.

Cobra · **Joined:** Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:57 pm **Posts:** 14767

Maybe it could be that i have not been on the internet on Vista pc since March 2007 so it's collecting all the past updates

revil22 · **Posted:** Sun Dec 14, 2008 2:53 pm

ya if uve never RAN Updates until now it might do that. But i'm just laughing at those numbers on HOW Much it is taking up.

modelhunter · **Joined:** Tue Jun 05, 2007 8:01 pm **Posts:** 2085

Cobra wrote:

It's killing my hard drive space

How often does this crap happen and how much space does eat up?
I had to unplug the internet from it

I never had this on win 98

Turn OFF Automtic updating in settings..

ResplendentRegina · **Joined:** Sun Nov 25, 2007 6:54 pm **Posts:** 1525

Cobra wrote:

Maybe it could be that i have not been on the internet on Vista pc since March 2007 so it's collecting all the past updates

Yeah thats exactly what its doing. But still your operating system should not be 16GB.

arioch1066 · **Joined:** Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:44 am **Posts:** 183

weird. i've been using vista for 11 mos. now, and had nothing like that happen. i've got mine set so that nothing can be installed unless i approve it. a lot of those updates are listed as optional.

Cobra · **Joined:** Mon Jan 24, 2005 11:57 pm **Posts:** 14767

arioch1066 wrote:

weird. i've been using vista for 11 mos. now, and had nothing like that happen. i've got mine set so that nothing can be installed unless i approve it. a lot of those updates are listed as optional.

That's because it was the second time i was on the net since 2007
But now i turned it off from auto update

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