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Dear All,

I was wondering why does a deficit of almost 3GB is always their when I try to find out what is the actual usage space of my Hard drive. In fact if I click “my computer and go to the properties of Drive C, I find for example 13GB in usage; now if I enter drive C and select all the files (and I have all the files shown including the hidden ones) I get that the usage is 10GB and sometimes 9,5GB. I can't find the other 3GB!! what are they in reality? are they storage used by the operating system?

Thank you for your help

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The missing GB is usually the total of the page-file, hibernation file, the master files and the system restore points.

To free up your GB
Disable Hibernation (you'd free up as much space as you have RAM)
Disable System Restore (Usually freeing 1-4 GB)
Disable pagefile (which is not reccomended, but can free uo from 300MB-4GB)
The Master File can be changed but you'd need a utility to do it (usually less than 100MB, i think :cheesy: )

If you don't know how to disable them, post again.

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