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General Computer Support / .VHDX files
« on: February 02, 2021, 12:16:47 pm »
I run Windows 10 and I suddenly seem to be getting short of space on my hard disk drive. Firstly I tried defragging it and the available space mysteriously went down more after doing that. I have now run one of those WinDirStat analysing programs and I have seen that there is a type of file extension at the top of the usage table - it's a .vhdx file called Hard Disk Image and accounts for 238 gigabytes !!

So, a) Can I safely delete this file - is it needed for anything ?
      b) If I can delete it, where do I find it and how to delete it ?
      c) Would there be any files/folders under "Hidden Items" in  File Explorer that I should look to delete ?

Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated as I can't understand why my HDD is reducing

Lastly, my D drive shows a size of 830 gb. Disk Management says I have 141 gb free space. But I have totalled up all the individual directories on the D drive and they only total about 36ogb. So, surely I should have around 450 gb free space. Why the discrepancy?? I have read about Shadow Copy Storage taking up space and I attach screenshot showing Shadow storage on both C & D drives. I can understand it being on the C drive but I cannot understand what the 231 gb on the D drive is for?? Any ideas?

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General Computer Support / Third party Backup programs for Windows 10
« on: January 10, 2021, 01:19:52 am »
I'm currently using an old backup program to backup my files to an external disk drive. I would like to find a newer third party program that is a) Free  b) can do incremental backups and c) has the function to remove files from the backup that have since been deleted on my main drive (is that called "file synchronisation") ?.

Can anyone recommend such a program that meets those three criteria??

Thanx.

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External hard drive - unused space problem

 I have a Seagate GoFlex 250 gb ext. hard drive. I have backed up about 140 gb of data onto it but it currently shows only 23 gb of unused space remaining!! Even allowing for the true storage being about 232gb, that cannot be correct.
I have tried defragging the drive, have run "chkdsk" on it but still says 23 gb remaining. I really do not want to reformat the whole thing so what can I do.
Also, I looked with Windows Disk Management (see attached screenshot) and it shows the F drive to be healthy (active, primary partition etc). The only thing is that it does not pick up whether it is NTFS or FAT but I have had it for over two years and it's never been a problem backing up to it.
What can I do to check or restore unused space -  avoiding reformatting if at all possible

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I am running Windows 7 Ultimate edition 32 bit and have a problem with the COM+ System Application. It is showing as stopped but when I go to start it I get a message "error 1053" about not starting in a timely fashion. I do not know what to do to get this app started but I think it is causing my system restore utility to malfunction. The Com+ Event System is OK , so is the Volume Shadow Copy ok.

Any ideas on how to fix/replace the COM+ Sys App??  (I have already tried a Repair Install from my Windows disk but made no difference)

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Hi - I found this forum while wading through thousands of posts on the net by people who, like me, are having problems with System Restore and who cannot fix it.  I am using Windows 7 Ultimate edition.

My problem is that I can make restore points OK and they show up in the list but when I come to do the restore I get the message saying the restore was un-successful.  I have tried every one of the suggestions I have read about doing a restore in Safe Mode, checking on Volume Shadow Copy being started etc etc, tweaking registry - all to no avail.

What I think is possibly the cause (and I am not a tech - just a puzzled user) is that my COM+ System Application will not start and I understand that it is a vital part of SR. I have set it to Automatic (also tried manual as well) but when I try and actually start it from Services, I get the error message 1053 saying "the service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion" Could this be a reason for SR not working. (BTW, the COM+ Event System seems to be started OK)

So, my question to anyone is - how do I repair this Com+ System Application ?? I am desperately trying to avoid a re install of the whole damn W7 system so any advice or suggestions would be appreciated.

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