sorry for being such a noob with vista guys but it turned out to the the darn system restore. I disabled the feature so it wont bother me again. now i have 93 GB of free space which sounds about right.
Okay guys i just upgraded to windows vista x64 ultimate a couple of days ago from windows xp. So far everything has been working great except one thing is concerning me. I have a 106 GB hard drive and now in only a couple of days its down to 80.3 GB. Actually just awhile ago it was 83 GB and now its 80.3. The only difference that i can think of between now and then is that i closed my laptop for a while and then i opened it again. I used Tuneup utilities to see what file was taking up all this space and the windows folder by itself takes up 39% of the space. and two other folders take up 4% and another one takes up 1% and another one takes up less than 1%. This only accounts for less than 50% of the space being taken up and i dont even have that many programs here. The largest program i have is open office and thats only like 300MB. I checked for viruses using antivir and i checked for spyware usign windows defender, superantispyware, and spybot and found nothing. I dont know why tunup utilities isnt showing 100% of the space and i dont know what's taking up all the other space. I'm new to vista and didnt have this problem with XP so does anyone have any idea of what's going on and how i can solve this problem. If it matters, i have windows vista ultimate x64, 1 GB ram, intel core 2 duo 1.8 GHz, and a 106 GB hard drive. I also frequently have my flash drive plugged in but i dont think that matters at all. thanx guys

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