disk cleanup

Hey folks. I've tried to find a solution to this problem elsewhere but have still found no satisfactory solution. My C drive is 500 Gb, of which 457 are available to use. The folders I have on the C drive total less than 200 Gb, but the drive shows only 40.4 Gb free. When using Tree Size it...

I have VMWare workstation on windows 7 with a virtual machine windows 8. The windows 8 vdmk file was 41GByte.I did a disk cleanup and then the vdmk file was 28Gbyte but the System volume Information folder on windows 7 growed from 152MB to 9,2Gbyte because of one big file inside it.I don't know...

I made my C partition 100GB thinking that i wouldn't need more than that for my windows and users folder, but it turns out that most of the time i am struggling to keep the 10% needed for the windows to function properly. Now while my User folder takes 18GB which is reasonable my Windows folder...

I have 109,522 files (122,143 folders) in my Temporary Internet files in the C:\users\my name\AppData\Local\Temp folder hugging 5.14 GB and slowing down the performance. When I try to delete those temp files: Message: they are system files and deleting them will interfere with Windows. What are...

Hi Everyone, I have an imac. I tried to install windows 7 from boot camp and the WEI for disk drive (SSD) was 7.9 Then I decided to remove mac OS and make it completely windows. So, again using the boot camp I re installed windows. But this time I deleted the mac OS partition. Windows...

Hi Everyone I have a problem in my systems windows 8 as well as 7 system(office system) I think after the disk cleanup some of the special characters play stop pause in my windows 8 lappy music player and arrow marks in the softwares I work are not visible. Instead there will be a box like...

so i was reformatting a computer and the backup i had of it went bad. I was able to use recuva from piriform to get all the pictures back, but what I didn't notice was that it found everything single picture, even from the temp file. So, now I have a 100> Gb folder with every picture ever...

At a basic level choosing to upgrade to the next build in Windows 10 Tech Preview is almost like an upgrade to a new os. This leaves behind such folders as windows.old which usually contain files that were used in your previous version of Windows. If like me you use an SSD then every GB is...

Hi A number of threads on this Forum have addressed the problem of a corrupt Windows 7 Recycle Bin. My problem is that after I have; - Opened an elevated Command Prompt window - Run rd /s /q C:\$Recycle.bin on ALL of my drives - Checked that the files have indeed gone! - Restarted windows -...

Our computer has an 80g hard drive with 3 GB installed ram. It is claiming we are out of space and cannot perform any new installations and many other tasks. We deleted our photos and videos, a few less-used programs, ran anti-virus and malware program, used disk cleanup and file directory...

Hi Before upgrading I had 4 partitions for my UEFI Windows 8 install, the main partition for the system, and the three others it created during install. After upgrading to Windows 8.1 it has reduced the main Windows partition by 472MB and created a new 472MB recovery partition. I have not yet...

There are so many random files and folders on my Local Disk (C:) I can't tell what is important for running my computer and what is stuff that isn't important at all. I don't want to run a program to do it for me because I don't want it to delete something that I would've like to have kept...

The drive F of my sister's PC has been automatically filling up for some time and now out of the 76 gb only 6.5 mb remains. There is nothing in the drive except somethings called WindowsImageBackup and USER-PC. Why is this happening? Is it a virus problem?

I tried this and I can't tell if it works or not. When I defrag & optimize it never stops going thru passes. I stopped it at pass 15 but there was no evidence that anything was corrected. Anybody know anything about this Thanks

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...

I installed and used today the recently introduced (with KB 2852386) new Disk Cleanup Utility. After having performed the cleanup with multiple reboots I rechecked the size of the C:\Windows\winsxs\ folder. The size shrinks from approx 12.5 GB to 11GB Wow! :-( Is there something wrong...

Whenever I get and install hotfixes/patches for Windows 7 a copy of them is stored somewhere on the system partition for backup/uninstall purposes. Where (in which directory) are they put in detail? How can I uninstall them? MS has just releases a patch to cleanup them through DIsk Cleanup...

Hello Is it a good idea to check off device drivers and also Windows upgrade log files in "disc cleanup"? Each has a couple hundred MB's. Thank you

Have you found that the hard space of your computer was gradually eaten up by all the files you unlikely know? If you’re haunted a lot by such a problem and want to stop it, you just need to download Colorful Disk Clean and totally relax yourself. Colorful Disk Clean will help you scan all the...

I have registered to another Windows forum a week or so ago. That forum is so lack of new questions that I seldom visit it. Today I decided to see what was cooking there. I came upon a thread which I wanted to reply. It was about running out of disk space in Windows8. I wanted to tell the OP...