My Windows folder in C drive is occupying 50gb of disk space. But the total space used by individual files in that folder adds up to 20gb. Please help me to remove that 30gb
I want to provide a lot of space for a Linux Mint distribution to run on the windows pc, having first set up a dual boot system. I had a D: drive with 800MB of space not being used. I deleted the D: drive and that space became "Unallocated". Following the instructions, I should be able to click...
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Yesturday i did a fresh install of Windows 10 and I have deleted a lot of bloatware from the computer but I am still very limited in space on the C drive.
Only 38GB out of 97.5GB is free. I feel there should be alot more space than this free,
and if I am not mistaking, the computer had...
Say i have 1 physical C drive with 3 partitions:
1) System Reserved
2) Boot (Where Windows lives)
3) Lubuntu
Then i have a bad BSOD!
I boot, and on Grub i choose Lubuntu.
Can i secure erase partitions 1&2 but leave 3 untouched?
3 is rescue & fix partition!
If secure erase, wipes the whole...
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Good Day.
I have a user which when she search for file/doc in server network NAS is very slow, but other users pc was fast. But when she search for file/doc on her whole C drive was slow but still fine, I would like to check if indexing help to solve the slowness in searching...
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I was trying to move my Music, Videos and Pictures folders to the D: drive instead of keeping it on the C: (SSD) drive.
Unfortunately when doing so I created this monstrosity and I can not seem to undo this mess:
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How do I fix said issue to remove those D:/ links and actually move...
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Hi Everybody,
I have a basic question. This is probably all very normal, but as far as I can remember there are only three possible users on my compute .... "me", a "guest", and a mysterious "Administrator".
But, My "C:\User\" DIRECTORY shows a bunch of users I don't recognize, and although...
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I have a Samsung N110 with a windows 7 starter version, old I know!
I'm trying to download the Bluestacks app player, however when it's installing, it stops, and there's an error message saying it needs at least 2GB of space
This is on the C disk, which currently has 79GB free, I tried...
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In my Hd, c:, I have the following folders $winre_backup_partition.marker, windows.old, windows, $windows-WS, $windows-BT.
Can u please tell me which version of windows are they and how to use. Cannot recall when Microsoft created and for which Windows. ie Windows 7, windows 8, or windows...
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Whenever I download photos off my camera, they go to "libraries" "documents", "my documents" - I want them to go to my C: drive and not to the libraries path. How do I change that? Thanks.
I had my one picture associated with my windows account. That picture used to show on the folder icon for my account(ABHAY). Now its not showing, and only showing some random person figure!(see image below).
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The above is not a shortcut to my account folder, but I have posted this...
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I have an HP laptop (17 ") with 1windows 10 loaded with bloatware-Tried everything to get rid of windows 10 including windows 7 install disk which will load everything and comes to the install screen. When I click on it a box comes up saying not supported. Can I format the C: drive and then...
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Hey, couple of quick questions here. So, I have my Windows installed on C drive, as well as a few other things, and I don't install other things there because it is quite full, only half a gig space left. I was recently using WMM and it gave me messages that C drive was almost out of space, and...
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I only have 1.2 GB left on 178 GB C:
I looked at properties and C:/windows is 130 GB.
C:/windows/temp is 30 GB and has a lock symbol on the folder icon.
Is this reasonable? I have removed down to basic programs.
Btw C:\users is only 20 GB.
help please... Thanks!
Hi all, okay so yesterday I installed Win 7 on a laptop that had XP before that. XP was on C: disk, and me not being that good at reinstalling OS's I chose to make a clean install of Win 7 on disk D: Now.. if I understand correctly a clean install should've just deleted the previous OS...
Hi... I was given a windows 7 install disc to change from 10 to 7 I didn't like 10 however it's turned out to be a fake.. I still can see windows old my previous version and want to return to 10. I cannot restore to previous it's not there I can only see windows old in my C drive. Help ! How do...
Hi. I've reinstalled win 10 on a few computers this month and the first update that comes along (a very time consuming one) copies the ENTIRE c: drive system partition's worth of date again to do this update??? The old partition info is put in a folder called "windows.old". What do they do this...
Hi all.I bought a new Asus 403 laptop with Windows 10 64 bit.32 GB ssd. figured windows 10 would be about 5 or 6 GB, programs the same. would leave me between 15 to 20 GB to play around with, hook up extra usb drive for storage/update etc.
Anniversary update problems from the get go. not enough...
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It was acting like virus, so I i did a fresh and killed (Totally overwrote) the mfr installation. I got the disc from craiglist for 15 dollars. At least it removed all names and puffery from the operating system.
It worked on two others so seems valid. Even gives key #.
Q1: I do not have all...
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After all the trouble trying to find how to download and install Win 7 updates, and when I did find Microsoft Update Catalog showing that I had 1000 updates at 25 to a page and 40 pages totaling. Spent about 12 hours downloading these to the C:\ drive and later find they didn't install, and...