{"id":89,"date":"2006-09-10T12:53:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-10T12:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foldersizes.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2006\/09\/vista-ultimate-rc1-disk-space-analysis.htm"},"modified":"2016-01-07T00:38:14","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T00:38:14","slug":"vista-ultimate-rc1-disk-space-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foldersizes.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2006\/09\/vista-ultimate-rc1-disk-space-analysis.htm","title":{"rendered":"Vista Ultimate RC1 &#8211; Disk Space Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Windows Vista is nearing public release, I&#8217;ve been spending a bit more time running compatibility tests with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foldersizes.com\/\">FolderSizes<\/a>. My findings &#8211; FolderSizes works pretty much perfectly with the most recent Vista builds.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m actually testing with the RC1 build of Windows Vista <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Ultimate<\/span> Edition. Not surprisingly, the default installation of Vista Ultimate chews up a lot of disk space. Running a FolderSizes file report against my C drive reveals a significant distribution of large files.<\/p>\n<p>If I switch to the File Sizes detail view in the navigation tree and double-click the 3MB-1GB file size range, FolderSizes will automatically launch a search window that shows me exactly which files exist in that size range.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the Ultimate edition of Windows Vista installs quite a bit of sample media by default. I suspect that Vista&#8217;s deeper graphical capabilities will translate into greater disk space requirements regardless of which edition you install.<\/p>\n<p>I will, of course, continue testing FolderSizes compatibility with Windows Vista right up to the final release of the product. And if you&#8217;re doing the same, please feel free to <a href=\"mailto:mark@keymetricsoft.com\">contact me directly <\/a>should you find anything amiss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Windows Vista is nearing public release, I&#8217;ve been spending a bit more time running compatibility tests with FolderSizes. My findings &#8211; FolderSizes works pretty much perfectly with the most recent Vista builds. I&#8217;m actually testing with the RC1 build of Windows Vista Ultimate Edition. Not surprisingly, the default installation of Vista Ultimate chews [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foldersizes.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foldersizes.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foldersizes.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foldersizes.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foldersizes.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.foldersizes.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":675,"href":"https:\/\/www.foldersizes.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foldersizes.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foldersizes.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foldersizes.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}