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Windows 8 Windows 8.1 Win folder huge size
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- Kummaraguru
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- bloatware c drive cleaning disk space error file management folder size hdd help investigation optimization ssd storage system files windows 8.1
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Unallocated drive space - wont move into C: drive
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...- davidlew
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- c drive d drive disk management disk space drive allocation dual boot file system installation linux installation linux mint partition reallocation storage unallocated virtual drive windows windows 10
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Windows 10 Low disk space after fresh W10 install.
Hello 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...- MartinB
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- bloatware c drive clean install disk space formatting free space storage user questions windows windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 1 physical C drive with 3 partitions. Can i secure erase partitions 1&2 but leave 3 untouched?
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...- ztplru
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- boot drive bsod c drive data recovery lubuntu partition rescue secure erase system reserved windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Windows 10 Searching for file is slow in NAS
Hi All Expert, 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...- xchiazyx
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- 64-bit c drive community help data retrieval expert advice file management file search indexing local disk nas network drive optimization performance server access slow search tech support troubleshooting user issues windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Woops, Folders Issue with "This PC" pane
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: Link Removed How do I fix said issue to remove those D:/ links and actually move...- PaulyD0051
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- c drive d drive data management directory file management folders link management music pictures ssd storage this pc troubleshooting user files video windows issues
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Multiple users on my C: drive? Where do they cone from, and can I delete them?
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...- jPaulB
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- administrator c drive default profile file deletion guest system files temp files user account users windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Can't download app player due to no space- but there is
Hi, 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...- Air25
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- app player bluestacks c drive d drive disk space download free space installation new system samsung nc110 troubleshooting windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Hardware
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Windows 10 Windows Version Backup in drive C
Hi, 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...- scrt
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- backup c drive data recovery file management folders maintenance microsoft partition recovery system restore version windows windows 10 windows 7 windows 8 windows installation windows.old
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Windows 7 Path for photo downloads
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.- Fenway16
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- c drive camera data management documents file management image download libraries settings user preferences windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 My picture associated with my account, not showing alongside the account folder icon.
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). Link Removed The above is not a shortcut to my account folder, but I have posted this...- Abhay Bhatt
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- access c drive customization display download folders help icons image photos random settings support troubleshooting update user account user folder users windows
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Windows 10 Can I install windows 7 over windows10
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...- dfg4240
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- 1tb storage 8gb ram best buy bloatware c drive flash drive formatting hp laptop installation issues intel core i5 laptop issues os installation performance slow pc tech support troubleshooting upgrade user experience windows 10 windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Windows Movie Maker temp and Libraries locations.
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...- joe16
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- c drive data management disk space downloads folder file location file management file transfer movie maker music library storage storage configuration system settings temporary files user folder video editing video files windows libraries windows settings wmm
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 W7 disk full
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!- Leonard
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- c drive disk cleanup disk space file management help storage system files temp files user folder windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Problem after clean installing Win 7
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...- InsaneFreakshow
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- c drive clean install dual boot folders installation laptop os issues startup windows 7 windows xp
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Windows 7 How to Remove Fake Windows 7 and Restore Windows 10 from C Drive
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...- Gary johnson
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- c drive fake software help installation restore troubleshooting uninstall windows 10 windows 7 windows.old
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- Forum: Windows Software
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Windows 10 Update copies entire C: partition as an update???
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...- Shayla Blackthorn
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- bloatware c drive partition reinstall space storage system update upgrade windows 10 windows.old
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 windows 10 64 bit size question
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...- bizz
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- 64-bit anniversary asus automatic updates c drive file management microsoft performance program files space management ssd storage storage limits system requirements tech support update usb user issues windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 W7 Toshiba 645D-S4040 I did an overwrite fresh W7
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...- rickshaw
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- c drive clean install drivers ebay installation network connection newbie overwrite partition tech support toshiba usb transfer virus removal windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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Windows 7 Christmas will be here before Updates will be installed
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...- pontian1933
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- c drive download issues error installation microsoft microsoft update catalog support troubleshooting update windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation