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C Drive losing space
JustAnotherSaver
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My C drive is a Samsung SSD 830 256GB drive. It's been low on available space for a while and i've noticed it's getting even lower.
Problem is i've not been installing any programs to it and i've not been storing any files on it - i have a separate drive for that. Yet i've gone from 20GB free space to 13GB over the past few weeks.
Ideas?
* No i'm not defragmenting it. Or rather, i haven't been as i read you don't do that with SSD drives.
Problem is i've not been installing any programs to it and i've not been storing any files on it - i have a separate drive for that. Yet i've gone from 20GB free space to 13GB over the past few weeks.
Ideas?
* No i'm not defragmenting it. Or rather, i haven't been as i read you don't do that with SSD drives.
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Windows updates ?
Windows keeps copies of previous for rollbacks
Can be deleted if you wish
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-properly-remove-windowsold-folder-windows-10?ampEx forum ambassador
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Download WinDirStat and run it on the drive
It will show you which folders are taking up most room, what type of files taking up most, etc.0 -
Check Windows Recovery too, that can be a hog but it's easy enough to solve.
Search "Delete old restore points".0 -
Windows 10 20H1 build 18936 is rolling out now for Insiders0
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1. I don't install Windows updates too frequently. I know i should. (I'm on Win7 btw - with no intention of moving to Win10)
2. How do you manually select which restore points to delete?0 -
JustAnotherSaver wrote: »1. I don't install Windows updates too frequently. I know i should. (I'm on Win7 btw - with no intention of moving to Win10)
2. How do you manually select which restore points to delete?
What's your reasoning?
https://neosmart.net/wiki/disk-cleanup/#Run_Disk_Cleanup_in_Windows_Vista_and_70 -
To which point?EveryWhere wrote: »What's your reasoning?0 -
JustAnotherSaver wrote: »To which point?
My guess that you don't update Windows very often?0 -
If you search for System restore in Control Panel you should find the restore points if you open it.0
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JustAnotherSaver wrote: »To which point?“
1. I don't install Windows updates too frequently. I know i should. (I'm on Win7 btw - with no intention of moving to Win10)
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