Gaming losing hard drive space

[lolzed]

ok for some reson im losing hard drive space for no reason,im running vista sp2,why is this happening?im not downloading big files or anything,im running ccleaner and disk cleanup but nothing

 

[Justin121994]

Same for me wtf i have a 200gb hdd and i only have 40 left and i deleted almost all the files that were big and also from the recycle bin.

 

[themuddaload]

too amny pronz?

@lolzed: try running defraggler, its made by the same people who make ccleaner, and is supposed to be the best. i ran it a few weeks ago and gained a couple gigs

@justinrocks123: try ccleaner

 

[Iceclaw]

http://www.wikihow.com/Reduce-Shadow-Copy-on-Windows-Vista

Even if you don't have the ability to access shadow copies because you'er on a low version of vista, they're still being made unless you turn it off. (Though there are 3rd party tools that let you get at the stuff if it's there)

 

[lolzed]

ok i tried doing that,i come up with

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6002]
Copyright © 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>vssadmin list shadowstorage
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
© Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.

Shadow Copy Storage association
For volume: (C\\?\Volume{a1e495b0-f2db-11dc-b320-806e6f6e6963}\
Shadow Copy Storage volume: (C\\?\Volume{a1e495b0-f2db-11dc-b320-806e6f6e69
63}\
Used Shadow Copy Storage space: 28.395 GB
Allocated Shadow Copy Storage space: 29.503 GB
Maximum Shadow Copy Storage space: 33.14 GB

how much should i reduce it?
EDIT:also,how what is shadow copy anyway?and is this the thing thats making me lose hard drive space?

 

[warbird]

Shadow copy makes backups of files you edit/overwrite, so that you can revert it to an earlier state.

From what you pasted, it is currently using 28gigs

 

[Regiiko]

Jeeeeeeeesus. No way do I want Shadow Copy enabled if I ever get Vista/7 ...