Comments on: How to shrink a partition with unmovable files in Windows 7

By: Winter

Winter — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 00:19:15 +0000

Thanks buddy worked

By: nadim

nadim — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 09:54:32 +0000

Thank you very much!!! I had to delete the ProgramData/Microsoft/Diagnosis/events*.rbs as well in Safe mode.

I am installing Linux Mint on my laptop.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 30 May 2016 13:16:52 +0000

Great, been going around in circles till I found this. Took about six goes, but worked a treat!

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 21:18:15 +0000

Thanks for the straightforward tutorial. This saved me a lot of time and heartache.

By: paul

paul — Sun, 27 Mar 2016 16:04:00 +0000

thankyou

By: spearsg

spearsg — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 05:15:05 +0000

Oh heck yes, good job buddy. I’d like to emphasize for others, that I — as you — has to cycle thru the items multiple times, followed by multiple reboots to get success.

I did not have to go into Event Viewer – but was my next option.

Alas, the cycles were worth it. I can actually shrink the volume down to actual total file allocated bytes size. (I’m not going to go that low, cuz it would be a little stupid — but can now if I want to) Noice!!!

By: Ari Timonen

Ari Timonen — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 17:24:38 +0000

Thanks for this.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 27 Feb 2016 11:18:18 +0000

This worked for me. I found that a lot of the unmovable files were due to a program that was in use. Simply figuring out which program and closing it worked most of the time. For example, having Chrome open to look at this tutorial created some kind of temporary file that wouldn’t go away until I closed the browser. The same was true of a file that collects data about Antimalware – I had to disable Security Essentials for a minute or two so that this file didn’t get in the way. In both cases I didn’t have to delete anything, just close or disable the program that was accessing the files.

Thanks for this tutorial!

By: TVL

TVL — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 15:50:17 +0000

5 years after the article and still accurate !
Thank you so much for helping with this problem

By: John Liad

John Liad — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 22:07:56 +0000

i’m not able to delete the files in the event viewer. each time I clear log, the file comes back. please help