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Being terse; look at this.
I am so starved for space on my C: drive, new security patches can’t be transferred into the folder where abbodi86’s update program resides.
What can I safely delete to recapture drive space? In which folder(s) do I look for the storage hogs?
Hi Steve,
Things you can do.
Search for Disk Cleanup: In the search box on the taskbar, type “disk cleanup” and select “Disk Cleanup” from the list of results.
Select the Drive: Select the drive you want to clean up, and then select “OK”.
Also Select Clean up system files
Uninstall old Apps you don’t use.
If you have lots of large documents, videos etc, move them to another drive.
Right-click on the Windows Start button and then click Settings.
From the left sidebar, select the System tab.
In the right pane, click Storage.
In this section, you can see what type of data occupies the most space on your currently crowded and other drives.
Click on Show more categories to view other categories that occupy the most real estate.
There are apps that show what is taking up space.
WinDirStat and TreeSize
Hope this gives you some space back
where abbodi86’s update program resides.
Don’t know if this applies in your case, but once the security patches for a particular month have been successfully installed the patch files are no longer needed and should be deleted from that folder (or at the very least moved to a different drive.)
If you don’t do this, they’ll slowly gobble up more and more space on your drive until you no longer have room to add new ones to the folder; BTDT on my Windows 7 PC!
@OP Steve, FWIW:
My ESU Win8.1 Pro 64bit OS has a footprint of around 12Gb with my mandatory programs installed and everything else is located (portable apps and utilities, personal data, docs, pics etc..) along with the system pagefile on the larger secondary drive that has run aerodynamically for years.
I’d seriously consider looking for a secondary SSD/ HDD as Paul-T has posted, which has the potential to keep the OS footprint down to a minimum on the system drive once your/program data is moved to the secondary drive.
Also provides an option to transfer the primary OS data to the bigger new drive and use the existing as a secondary drive, whatever you decide, now or later..
Hence, as it stands with no H/W info provided for a start point, it may be in your interest to do the following for a cheap and cheerful workaround to regain storage space.
1. If you don’t use Hibernate, disable via registry to regain a big chunk of space.
Type: Regedit in search then navigate to and ammend to read:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power] "HibernateEnabled"=dword:00000000
2. Use the proprietory Disk Clean-up as admin using the sageset:0/ sagerun:0 switches as described in my earlier thread:
https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/proprietory-disk-clean-up-tweak/
3. Clear out the winsxs folder of any redundancy using DISM command within a cmd prompt:
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase
Note: DISM takes a while, as the winsxs folder inflates over time, it yields lots of space to be had once successfully purged of redundancy, especially if it hasn’t been run before, you’d be surprised at some I’ve seen purging +/- gigabyte/s of redundancy, especially more in Windows 10 than Win8.1
Good luck!
Deleting the remnant patch files from the C: drive worked.
Trying to run DISM produced an error message that it was 32-bit, but this laptop is 64-bit. I will look a little deeper later. Thank you, everybody.
The DISM command must be run from either an “elevated” powershell or cmd prompt.
Right-click C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe and select Run as administrator.
Right-click C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe and select Run as administrator.
BTW, if you’re using Windows 8 instead of 8.1, the /ResetBase option won’t work!
Use /StartComponentCleanup instead and then run Disk Cleanup.
Settings > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Disk Cleanup > Select drive C: > click OK.
Click the Clean up system files button on the bottom left, then check Windows Update Cleanup plus whatever other items you want to delete (I’d suggest selecting them all), and click OK.
Note: it can take a while to complete so be patient.
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