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MAJOR ANNOYANCE please help

by urza4315 Aug 6, 2008 6:00PM PDT

Okay, I am currently running Windows Vista Home Premium 6.0 Build 6001 Service Pack 1.

This has been going on for a long time now. Whenever I use disk cleanup to free up some empty space, it shows me that I can clear XXX Gigabytes off my hard drive. It used to say it can clean off 300+ gigabytes, now it says it can clean off 500+ gigabytes.
But my C drive is only 206 gigabytes.
The number shown doesn't seem to take up my hard drive space proportionally as the number increases.

I have already tried cleaning up before, it wiped nearly all my pictures, music, videos, and a whole lot of data out of my program files. Fortunately I canceled the operation half way when I realized something was wrong and recovered all the files with a backup file.

In disk cleanup, this tremendous amount of data is categorized
"Per user queued Windows Error Reporting Files".

I want to know what is wrong with this thing! If you need anymore information just ask and I'll tell you!

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Call it in.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Aug 6, 2008 11:22PM PDT

When you have a bona fide bug like that you call Microsoft and ask about it. It's no charge for bug reporting.

-> Let's be clear here. There are bugs.
Bob

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