[Thinkpad] Re: A21e abrupt 20% increase in "System Files"

Hello,

Do you have any kind of "system restore" software running on the computer?
If so, have you tried disabling it?

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

At 05:05 PM 3/16/2004, you wrote:

>Message: 8
>Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 19:09:04 -0500
>From: "Bruce Markowitz" <scosgt@worldnet.att.net>
>Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] A21e abrupt 20% increase in "System Files"
>To: "Lawrence Silberstein" <montagefilm@mail.com>,
> <thinkpad@stderr.org>
>Message-ID: <005801c40bb4$0f2ddfe0$6f00a8c0@X20>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
>Check for a virus, something may be altering your files
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Lawrence Silberstein" <montagefilm@mail.com>
>To: <scosgt@worldnet.att.net>; <thinkpad@stderr.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 6:13 PM
>Subject: [Thinkpad] A21e abrupt 20% increase in "System Files"
>
>
> >
> > A21e W2KSP4 12 Gb HD w/ 23% free space
> >
> > I installed several security programs at the same time: Spybot,
>TrojanHunter, Ashampoo Uninstall Suite, Ad-Aware 6, and PopUpCop.
> >
> > I then went to Defrag. Defrag's analysis was astonishing: Nearly
>everything on the drive had turned to green, "System Files." Defrag's reply
>to attempt to defragment: "Although there is 23% free on your drive, only 3%
>is available for use. We recomend that you do not defragment until you've
>increased available space to 15%."
> >
> > Gosh, what happened? How to fix?
> >
> > Larrry

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Received on Wed Mar 17 05:19:20 2004