WIN 7 Exaggerates Its Size ...How & Why Please ???

[Trimble Bracegirdle]

Opening a Explorer window displaying the Drive contents
of the Windows 7 installation & then 'selecting' the folders &
asking for 'properties' gives a much bigger total size than that given when
looking at the Drive's properties in 'My Computer' or from a CHKDSK report.

Its something to do with Links within Windows pointing to Files & Folders
more than once so things get counted repeatedly ...some of them 'Pretend' ..
not there at all.
My actual WINDOWS 7 Ultimate 64bit just installed Total is
10.1 GB with a fixed 1GB Pagefile.sys & no Hiberfile.sys at all.
I get 14GB when counting total 'selected' files.

Can some body explain please?
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(='.'
(")_(") mouse (He's confused)

 

[philo]

Trimble Bracegirdle wrote:
> Opening a Explorer window displaying the Drive contents
> of the Windows 7 installation & then 'selecting' the folders &
> asking for 'properties' gives a much bigger total size than that given when
> looking at the Drive's properties in 'My Computer' or from a CHKDSK report.
>
> Its something to do with Links within Windows pointing to Files & Folders
> more than once so things get counted repeatedly ...some of them 'Pretend' ..
> not there at all.
> My actual WINDOWS 7 Ultimate 64bit just installed Total is
> 10.1 GB with a fixed 1GB Pagefile.sys & no Hiberfile.sys at all.
> I get 14GB when counting total 'selected' files.
>
> Can some body explain please?
> (\__/)
> (='.'
> (")_(") mouse (He's confused)
>
>
>



System Restore files I imagine