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Dell Laptop No Space
albionrovers
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How can I tell what's taking up all my space on my old Dell?
c:-drive properties as follows :-
Capacity - 136G
Used - 136G
Free - 976MB
I go through each folder and right-click => properties and nothing seems excessive in terms of taking up vast amounts of space.
I ran disk cleanup and it promised to free up 6G of temp files but didn't.
Help appreciated. Thanks in advance.
c:-drive properties as follows :-
Capacity - 136G
Used - 136G
Free - 976MB
I go through each folder and right-click => properties and nothing seems excessive in terms of taking up vast amounts of space.
I ran disk cleanup and it promised to free up 6G of temp files but didn't.
Help appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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Run Ccleaner, that will free up space.1. Have you tried to Google the answer?
2. If you were in the other person's shoes, how would you react?
3. Do you want a quick answer or better understanding?0 -
Empty recycle bin?
Cut/paste enough files (music, photos, other docs) to a USB stick or similar to give you enough room to download and run WinDirStat.
This will graphically show what's in your C: drive0 -
Delete System Restore Points.0
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16.9G free I'll take that.
Delete System Restore Points did it.
Thanks for all suggestions.0 -
it will probably fill up again soon unless you limit the size of restore points, where's the 120GB gone!!
> . !!!! ----> .0 -
You can definitely free up more space than that.
Things like iTunes and music folders, photographs plus videos and games if you have them tend to be the biggest culprits.
I'd look to free up 1/3rd of the space on the drive, then defragment it if it's been running close to full for long time.
Buy an external USB drive, a 1TB one would do, and back up your data.
Run through control panel > Add/remove programs and uninstall anything you don't use - after making sure it's not a vital system component.0 -
Windows Vista?
What is the Service Tag on the thing?0 -
I use Brio's foldersize software, free and easyFriendly greeting!0
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Have a look at
http://windirstat.info/index.html
Totally free, easy to see files that hidden well down a directory tree0
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