Windows 7 OS

[VIP2006]

Hi Members, I have recently joined and wish to introduce myself. I am 74 years of age, a retired engineering manager with a love of computers and Landscape Photography. I have 4 computers in my network, 2 Pcs and 2 Laptops.
I use the computers for Photography Editing and Cataloging and also researching on the internet. I have now given up taking photos using film, and now concentrate on Digital Photos and Editing them (when necessary) using Adobe CS software.
My main concern with the digital world is that I now have to spend increasing time and money on the security of not only my Photos but my identity etc., I find that the digital age is very exciting but altogether moving to fast for a old codger like my self. Windows 7 is now with us and I have upgrades the 3 Vista machines without any problem, although on my latest machine which has a 500GB HD I found that after the upgrade that over 50% of the capacity had been used in the upgrade. perhaps some one can enlighten me where I have committed the error.
I was told by the Win7 advisor that I should uninstall PC-doctor and after the upgrade download the the software again. this is how I became a member on you forum, I would thank anyone on anticipation for advices on how to get my 250GB back to my HD

[fwilson]

VIP2006,

I am not sure you are posting to the correct forum.  PC-Doctor is hardware diagnostics software.  It does come pre-loaded on many PC's by the OEM's. It does not however perform any antivirus or spyware functionality.  The maximum size that PC-Doctor would take up is around 140MB or about 3.5% of your 500GB drive.

We do not provide General Windows support on this forum, only support relating to the operation of PC-Doctor program.

-Fred

[colinc]

As Fred stated, this is a support forum for PC-Doctor hardware diagnostic products. That stated, having done quite a few Win7 migrations lately myself, you may want to look into the following as a possible disk hog:
> If you ran the Win7 Easy Transfer Wizard, chances are that it created a backup of all of your data under Vista, typically in a single file. You can search for that file with an extension of .MIG
> If you installed Win7 as new instead of an upgrade, chances are you still have everything from your old Vista directory structure on the disk with .OLD appended to the folder names off the root of your C: drive.

[VIP2006]

Hi Fred. forgive me for my mistake in posting, and maybe I am in the wrong forum for seeking advices on the matter of HDD capacity etc.,
Colinc - I will now search for files under the file extensions you give and i anticipate that if my search give positive results thaen I have to delete them. I will keep my fingers xrossed.
Thnks you both for the kind interest shown.

Regards Fred

[fwilson]

VIP2006,

There is nothing to forgive.  Good luck with getting it all sorted out.

-Fred