[Troy]

I'm not sure why the videos stopped working, perhaps uninstalling one of those particular programs removed the codecs needed for certain .avi files.

Try VLC Media Player, see if it will play your movies.

When it really comes down to it, I don't have much personal experience with Adobe programs. Your best bet would be to contact Adobe Support directly, I'm sure they'll be happy to help.

Cheers

Troy

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Space is quickly filling up again! I had managed to keep 7GB free, now it's down to 4GB! I am absolutely clueless what keep filling my C drive.

I recently ran a Windows automatic update, and I think that was the moment it mostly filled up. I ran TuneUp utilities to clear up backups, something like 1 GB appeared as backup but then nothung appeared in the detailed view and I couldn't delete anything. I ran ATF cleaner, nothing left to clean.

I think there must be some install backups created that are filling my space. Will this happen at each big Windows update? I have this comp with Vista just for a few months and already I barely have space on it.

I uninstalled all adobe programs besides Photoshop and Audition, but still remained with all kinds of stuff from adobe i don't know how to erase. The problem I think are the .msi install files and installation backups and all the stuff kept in winsxs.

I don't get it...if it goes on like this, in a few months I'll nearly have 0 space left.

[Kristina]

Space is quickly filling up again! I had managed to keep 7GB free, now it's down to 4GB! I am absolutely clueless what keep filling my C drive.

I recently ran a Windows automatic update, and I think that was the moment it mostly filled up. I ran TuneUp utilities to clear up backups, something like 1 GB appeared as backup but then nothung appeared in the detailed view and I couldn't delete anything. I ran ATF cleaner, nothing left to clean.

I think there must be some install backups created that are filling my space. Will this happen at each big Windows update? I have this comp with Vista just for a few months and already I barely have space on it.

I uninstalled all adobe programs besides Photoshop and Audition, but still remained with all kinds of stuff from adobe i don't know how to erase. The problem I think are the .msi install files and installation backups and all the stuff kept in winsxs.

I don't get it...if it goes on like this, in a few months I'll nearly have 0 space left.

[Troy]

I found some reading for you on the WinSXS folder, it seems to explain it rather well. Read here.

The interesting point is that if you have a lot of programs installed, the WinSXS folder could be very large. I suggest you go through and completely uninstall all unneeded programs on your computer.

How big is your hard drive?

I'm starting to get a bit confused by this, so perhaps try running through these instructions and see if anything comes up.

Cheers

Troy

[oyzomagno]

Hey try this program... All it does is scan your hard drive and show you a labeled graphical representation of every file on your computer, very easy to see what is taking up how much.



go to: http://www.sixty-five.cc/download/

click: "Free Software"

download: SpaceMonger v1.4.0

[Kristina]

Thank you, Troy!

I have 19,5 GB on C and 278 on D. From these I'm left with 5GB on C (the value curiously changes, it was 4 before) and 209GB on D (curiosly when I run space explorer with TuneUp Utilities only around 30GB are explained, I don't know what's taking the rest 30).

I had already gone through that post and I don't know what could help me with space problem from there. I ran ATF cleaner and most of the other programs are for spyware/malware, which I appear to be clean of now as I was helped in another topic.

The problem is with the C drive and indeed the winsxs folder, which is getting huge. I had already found the article you mentioned about winsxs and it only scared me more...looks from there that Vista is a lot worse than XP!

The thing is I indeed installed and uninstalled many programs, especially Adobe ones, which left traces in the winsxs folder, even though the programs are now gone. So I don't know what to uninstall more. The problem is these install traces....

As I already said, I cleared considerable space with msizap G! (which removes orphaned installation patches) in XP, but in Vista it somehow doesn't work for me and gives me 40 something errors for each patch that it's trying to remove.

To oyzomangno, I'm already using TuneUp disk space explorer. It seems to show pretty clearly what's taking up my space...the dll's in winsxs take something huge...

[Troy]

Okay so your C: (where Vista is installed) is only about a 20GB hard drive? That's way too small!

I'm using about 55GB on my Vista install at the moment, including a few games (which take up a fair bit of space).

[oyzomagno]

wow... you can get away with a hard drive that small on XP usually... but Vista... no way...

Edited by oyzomagno, 14 February 2009 - 09:36 PM.

[Kristina]

Well, the person who made my partitions asked me whether I use many games/big programs, and as I said not really he thought 20GB would be enough. Apparently I needed some bigger programs and I'll be in a bit of trouble if I need to install something big from now on.

Anyway, the orphaned patches problem is still bugging me and I'm having some more hope with that.
As I run msizap G! to remove orphaned files, these are the errors I get (it's a screenshot read, so a few errors here):

" Copyright <c> 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\Adina>msizap G!
MsiZapInfo: Performing operations for user S-1-5-21-2152817581-4136168508-1042998595-1000

Removing orphaned cached files.

Error opening 0C0CC34935220EF44939DD83F68775DF\InstallProperties subkey of Products key for S-1-5-18 user. Error: 2.
Error opening 0DB456C89491ED34482FCEA2A1BBC04BMnstallProperties subkey oducts key for S—1—5—18 user. Error: 2.
Error opening 0E99F845CC4135D47A6DA4265A2F7C84MnstallProperties subkey oducts key for S—1—5—18 user. Error: 2.
Error opening 1062C69B5F25D5D418A63664E93AllFEMnstallProperties subkey oducts key for S—1—5—18 user. Error: 2.
Error opening 151B790316F111244ACC7D10722B62EA\InstallProperties subkey oducts key for S—1—5—18 user. Error: 2.
Error opening 156325871B8DCDllCCEE475198468537\InstallProperties subkey oducts key for S—1—5—18 user. Error: 2.
Error opening 15CC03F38870B784AA3827412A930C0CMnstallProperties subkey oducts key for S—1—5—18 user. Error: 2.
Error opening 2C72C8E4727D00C49AE03C6F73E6EE07MnstallProperties subkey oducts key for S—1—5—18 user. Error: 2.
Error opening 3685B010A755CAB4FA974D97449E8C58MnstallProperties subkey oducts key for S—1—5—18 user. Error: 2.
Error opening 386040B1093C1174BA7CADD8584E077EMnstallProperties subkey oducts key for S—1—5—18 user. Error: 2.
Error opening 3957FF70AED95B04F9785F756EB5FB06MnstallProperties subkey oducts key for S—1—5—18 user. Error: 2.
Error opening 3B0BB9C5038E4184BB4A9D53531E7C9BMnstallProperties subkey oducts key for S—1—5—18 user. Error: 2.
Error opening 45521AAA9852CD1129FE9E38658D4139MnstallProperties subkey oducts key for S—1—5—18 user. Error: 2.
Error opening 459123579852CD11DDCC9E38658D4139MnstallProperties subkey oducts key for S—1—5—18 user. Error: 2.
Error opening 45CCBBAA1B8DCD1129FE9E38658D4139MnstallProperties subkey oducts key for S—1—5—18 user. Error: 2.
Error opening 45EFF9AE1B8DCD1129FE9E38658D4139MnstallProperties subkey oducts key for S—1—5—18 user. Error: 2.
Error opening 47654321A9EDA776CCEE6636658D7977MnstallProperties subkey oducts key for S—1—5—18 user. Error: 2.
Error opening 49121EA5AAE3FD042BFBEFD1B687BB4FMnstallProperties subkey oducts key for S—1—5—18 user. Error: 2.
Error opening 4C379357169BFB342B4DC3C8297F12E6MnstallProperties subkey oducts key for S—1—5—18 user. Error: 2.
Error opening 4CAA2211AAAAPB342B4DC3C821739825MnstallProperties subkey oducts key for S—1—5—18 user. Error: 2.
Error opening 577A26A5A92A1EC4BB2CA4C90D2B11FEMnstallProperties subkey oducts key for S—1—5—18 user. Error: 2.
Error opening 5A6281DCCCFCE6C4F9D91E18781626AEMnstallProperties subkey [oducts key for S—1—5—18 user. Error: 2.
Error opening 5E65168E9589D044886762EC1D438920MnstallProperties subkey oducts key for S—1—5—18 user. Error: 2.
Error opening 65B578A9C53AAB643AAAFDD830EEF9F2MnstallProperties subkey oducts key for S—1—5—18 user. Error: 2.
Error opening 6B602C7D36A198348A1BF806D7B0FFF1MnstallProperties subkey oducts key for S—1—5—18 user. Error: 2.
Error opening 78DD8A4E647A3444FB52AC9FC9DE7676MnstallProperties subkey oducts key for S—1—5—18 user. Error: 2.
Error opening 85F9938AA4326C84AB55031C7583FBC3MnstallProperties subkey oducts key for S—1—5—18 user. Error: 2.

.................
.................

(there are a few more, but I can't print screen).

FAILED to clear all data."


Is there a way to track where all this stuff is located and delete it manually?

I could search them with total commander, but I don't know where to look.

Edited by Kristina, 15 February 2009 - 11:51 AM.

[Troy]

I have no personal experience with the msizap program, so I cannot help you there.

If this was my computer, I'd backup all my data and start again, this time making plenty more space available on the C: partition.