You'll be able to simply regain a lot wished disk space by eradicating shadow copies using the command line.

Right here goes -

1) Open an elevated command immediate (cmd + ctl-shift-enter)

2) At the command prompt, kind wmic, after a while wmic:root\cli> will seem

three) Type shadow copy

four) it would show a listing of existing shadow copies
4) Type shadow copy delete

5) one after the other, it can give a Y/N model immediate, confirming the deletion of each particular person shadow copy.

6) Type exit to get again to regular command immediate

To see an inventory of "shadowcopy" command options, sort shadow copy ?

It works 100% in Vista. May you try this and let me know if it works in other OS as well?