Or bad reading on my part. Your posts are very helpful. Thanks.

"Alexander Suhovey" <asuhovey******.com> wrote in message
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>I mean, it translates to decimal 15. Bad wording as usual. Thanks for
>pointing that out.
>
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> Alexander Suhovey
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> "John Barnes" <jbarnes@email.net> wrote in message
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>> That would be hexadecimal :-)
>>
>> "Alexander Suhovey" <asuhovey******.com> wrote in message
>> news:F51DA2DA-97B1-43AA-9E71-672B40C285F5@microsoft.com...
>>> Gerry,
>>>
>>> There's a DiskPercent entry under
>>> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\S ystemRestore\cfg
>>> registry key. It's value is 0x0000000f (15 decimal).
>>>
>>> You can try to change it, reboot and see if it'll lower disk space
>>> allocation for System Restore... or break your OS.
>>>
>>> Don't forget to post back with results.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Alexander Suhovey
>>>
>>> "Gerry Cornell" <gcjc@tenretnitb.com> wrote in message
>>> news:Oq6aY4MPHHA.4172@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>>> Richard
>>>>
>>>> What is the procedure for viewing the contents of the System Volume
>>>> Information folder? Is it true that the default setting is 15% of
>>>> volume? Can the default be decreased? If so how?
>>>>
>>>> Setting default disk allocations based on a percentage of volume has
>>>> in many quarters for a long time been felt to be a misguided approach.
>>>> Are there any better ways for calculating a reasonable allocation? Is a
>>>> consensus of opinion on this issue emerging?
>>>>
>>>> abcd please note 15% of 75 gb is 11.25 gb i.e your missing space!
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> Regards.
>>>>
>>>> Gerry
>>>> ~~~~
>>>> FCA
>>>> Stourport, England
>>>> Enquire, plan and execute
>>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>>>
>>>> Richard Urban wrote:
>>>>> Your apparent lost space is in the same locations that it was with
>>>>> Windows XP. These are hidden/system files and System Restore files
>>>>> (System Volume Information).
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "abcd" <abcd@abcd.com> wrote in message
>>>>> news:%23jT81WMPHHA.3944@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>>>>> I have 75GB on hard disk. I have installed Vista,SQL Server, MSDN
>>>>>> library. It shows 28GB is consumed. If I count the total of all the
>>>>>> folders it comes to around 16GB. Where is 11GB?
>>>>
>>>
>>
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