It gets worse when you have the system restores to minimum and then GBs of space start disappearing again.
I'm still fighting to get over 12GBs myself. Dunno where they are. Like I view C:/ properties and then I see properties of folders inside C:/ and the sum doesn't match
Go into Control Panel > File and Folder Properties > View, and set it to "show hidden files and folders" and unclick "hide protected operating system files" Then go into C:\ and you should have 2 files, hiberfil.sys and pagefile.sys which are each like 4GB. Also, you should see a System Volume Information folder, which is the place where your backups are stored. If you need to access this folder (which I don't recommend) you right click it, go to properties, then security, and you'll have to change the permissions for your user/group to "full control." I advise not bothering with that though, just so you can't accidentally screw it up.
Mac's a bully, Microsoft is awesome, Mac is Eh. That said, I find some of the commercials funny.
It's cool to hate 'The Man' (Microsoft), but they're not that bad. Those gigabytes you're whining about now you won't be whining about when your computer breaks and all you'll need to do is select a date to fix it. Windows can run almost anything, is compatible with everything. OS's like XP are fast, easy to use, and don't generally have many issues. Also, unlike Apple, Microsoft doesn't sell computers for double the price of the hardware just because a computer has Windows on it.
I wouldn't call Microsoft awsome, but I generally like their stuff. They should take a page out of the linux book and go for making everything within the OS easily customizible, instead of catering to the people that don't understand computers too well and want everything automatically done for them. Yeah, things like windows Update are nice, but when my computer eats 52 GB for system restore without me knowing it, and the only way to change that is through the MS DOS interface in Vista with an obscure command that isn't in the "help" section (when XP had it customizable with a pretty slider bar and everything...) that makes me subtract a few of Microsoft's brownie points.
Windows OS doesn't freeze unless you did something wrong. But of course, we don't make mistakes.
I haven't had my copy of XP or Vista bluescreen/freeze on me. I found out that Vista actually allocates a larger array size than I ask for when I write C++, I went over the array size in one of my programs a few times and nothing bad happened and I was happy
None.