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Windows 8 Saving space on SSD machine running Win 8.0
I have an SSD machine with 90 Gbytes of storage running at home, not connected to server. I use a USB drive for extra capacity but I seldom have much spare space on C: as I have SQL server and Visual Studio installed. Looking at storage use on C: I notice 1.7 Gbytes of files in...- SimonKravis
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- appdata c drive computer disk space file deletion maintenance optimization roaming sql server ssd storage user account visual studio windows 8
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Safely Delete $UPGRADE.~OS and $WINDOWS.~BT in C:\?
Hello! I just noticed I have $UPGRADE.~OS and $WINDOWS.~BT in the root of my C: drive. The former "size on disk" is 264 MB and the latter is 3.3 GB. The latter has tens of thousands of files and thousands of folders. I ran Disk Cleanup on the drive. It removed a lot of files, but these two...- Dave McKeen
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- c drive disk cleanup file management secure deletion storage system files upgrade files windows 10 windows 11 windows folder
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 HELP, I think I got a VIRUS
Today I tried to save a file to my flash drive and found that when I saved the file it also created a shortcut for the file. I attempted to delete the file, I was able to delete it but then a second later the file returned. I thought maybe it was the flash drive but when I was searching my...- scotty1105
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- antivirus c drive data loss file recovery flash drive malware registry security software removal startup system scan task manager tech support temporary files troubleshooting uninstall user files virus windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 google and faecbook not working in any browser
When i open www.google.com and www.facebook.com it opens the homepage of browser . I cant directly search from google search for chrome it opens chrome's homepage i.e https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/ same for opera and firefox And Internet Explorer is not responing any more from...- makwanamilan96
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- access browser browser issues c drive chrome facebook firefox google home page internet internet explorer malware mobile access network opera reinstall search troubleshooting windows
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- Forum: Windows Networking
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Why does free space in Disk C shrink all along?- EeeKB
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- c drive disk management disk space files microsoft support storage system performance windows
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- Forum: Knowledge Base (KB)
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Windows 7 Hard Disk Space Fluctuates
hey guys, i have a win7 pro, Sony Vaio Laptop, 500GB Hard Disk with 4GB Ram. my hard disk space has been fluctuating for a couple of days. From what i was sure of, or at least the stable remaining memory left in my C Drive Hard Disk was around 5 GB or something, however today i logged and...- Kash2Smash
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- c drive data loss disk space fluctuation hard drive memory sony vaio storage troubleshooting windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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"There is not enough free space on partition (C:)" error when you try to upgrade to Windows 7,...
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- c drive error free space partition storage troubleshooting upgrade windows 7
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Windows 7 No Space Left on my C Drive - Help
I have 1.50 GB left of my 132 GB storage. I have no idea what I can delete or even what I can transfer to my D Drive as I have 71.7 GB free on there. Just a quick look and I have pagefile.sys which is 3,931,448 KB Any Help or Advice would be appreciated... Cheers- kirkie
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- c drive d drive delete disk management free space help page file storage system files transfer
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Win7 Backup & Restore -Question
I have a dual boot PC with two separate HD's, one with Win7 on C: drive and the other with Win8 on the D: drive. When I boot to Win7 and use the Windows Backup program to make an image of the C: drive, it automatically includes the D: drive. I only want to backup Win7, how do I do that...- alex1997
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- backup c drive d drive dual boot hard drive image backup restore system restore windows 7 windows 8
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 I get Random BSOD`s when Games and Google Chrome are running
I get random BSOD`s when my Games and My internet is running. Here are the BCCodes i recieve: BCCode: 109 - (I have a suspicion my C: may be causing this) - happens 85% of the time BCCode: 24 - (This could be my network Card) - happens 10% of the time BCCode: 3b - (This could be caused by RAM)...- Lewis Dawson
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- bccode bsod c drive chrome cpu-z crash debugging diagnostics error event viewer games hardware issues network performance ram system stability tech support troubleshooting windows
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- Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
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Windows 7 Reinstalling: does all of C:\ get written over?
When reinstalling Windows 7, does all of the system drive get erased/formatted in the process (I think so) or only the C:\Windows folder and subfolders (which would have been ideal)? I forget since last time. Thank you.- Commander_Cool
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- c drive data loss formatting installation reinstall system drive user query windows 7 windows folder
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Does Win7 Partion Resize Feature Work On Raid 1 Mirror?
Can you use the built in Windows 7 Resize Feature to resize a Raid 1 Mirror (2 hard drives)? My C: drive is actually two hard drives in a Raid 1 Mirror and I would like to resize the partition so I can have a C: and a D: drive. Does the Windows 7 Resize Feature resize a Raid 1 Mirror?- ageofknowledge
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- c drive d drive hard drive mirroring partition raid resize windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Hardware
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Windows 7 Lost all access to partition C: Drive
Hello Everyone, MSI laptop - Windows 7 32 bit very recent fresh install (1 month). 320 GB Hard drive partitioned in two= C" & D" for data. The other night, I started my laptop and the first thing that appeared after boot-up was the windows utility. The message said: " Drive C has to be checked...- Darkforce1
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- c drive corrupted files data recovery error hard drive msi laptop os installation partition windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 'WIDTM is Compressed. Press CTRL+ALT+DEL' error.
Recently managed to brick my computer by trying to clear up some space on my C: drive. I checked 'Compress Drive'. The problem is when I boot up my laptop it goes straight to a blank screen with the following: WIDTM is compressed. Press ctrl+alt-del to restart. I can't access safe mode. I can...- roddydlr
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- bios blank screen boot issues c drive compressed error hi-grade laptop lea learning difficulties repair restart restore point safe mode system restore tech support troubleshooting widtm windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Hibernation causing c drive to fill up?
For about two weeks or so the 31gb c drive on my HP Mini has kept on filling up, sometimes within 20mb of space. I have run disk cleanup and defrag and used CCleaner, but they only free up about 200mb of space at a time, and eventually that gets filled up again. Once I freed up 1gb by restarting...- clur
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- c drive ccleaner defrag disk cleanup disk space file management free space hard drive hibernation hp mini maintenance recommendations storage system issues system performance temp files troubleshooting user help virus scan windows
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Windows 7 Windows 7 Installation
Guys.. I have been trying to re-install windows 7. I have 3 drives i.e C,D,E. I want to format only C drive. SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME OUT!!- Huzaifa Asif
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- c drive drive management formatting installation reinstall troubleshooting windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 The issue with partitions
So in my disk management I'm trying to put my C:/ drive back together after a mishap with Ubuntu. I get here. I click "delete partition" upon right clicking the section labelled "Free space", and it tells me that "There is not enough memory on the disk(s) to perform this operation". What does...- AgentLambda357
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- c drive disk management drive issues file system free space memory issues partition storage ubuntu windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Drive C: showing nearly full
Hello All, I am using win 7 64 installed on a 240gb ssd It has suddenly started showing nearly full. I don't keep any data on the drive just programs and if I add up the contents of the folders (not hidden)it only comes to 35 gb, how can I check what it filling up my drive ?- fincaman
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- c drive disk space disk usage file system hidden files ssd storage system files troubleshooting windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 8 Can not access C: Drive any longer
Hello, I recently became the proud owner of a Windows 8 BSOD. I did a refresh and afterwards I can not access my C: drive. I have gone in to the Properties Tab and tried to change the writes/ take ownership for Administrators and Administrator and applied them. While applying them I get a...- yawa77
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- access issues administrator bsod c drive file ownership properties refresh windows 8
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Windows 7 My C isnt my E
So my system it telling me that I cant use E: to do my system backup. See attachments for what I am seeing. (I'm aware that I don't have enough space currently to do a backup but that's not really a relevant issue) I've been getting this error for almost a month and am getting to the point...- Prettz
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- backup c drive disk management drive e drive error free space storage system windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support