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I had to downgrade to Win 10. Unexpectedly, there was a massive Windows.Old directory created, and it's proving difficult to delete all of it. Although this is my own home PC and I'm the sole user, when I try to delete certain directories or files, I get Access Denied - you need to provide...

Dear Anyone. OK, I know I should know the answer to this but I don't.... I've only got a small C drive. Downloaded from cloud storage a big .RAR that I knew was too big for C, so I had an external drive D: and downloaded it to that. Tried unzipping it (OK - unRARing it!), had 300gig spare on...

on my hard drive, I have three JOB files that have long numerical sequences after them. Each takes up 64 gigabytes on my hard drive. how do I reclaim that space? I have consulted AI and got nothing useful.

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Hi All, I'm having a strange problem I've never encountered before. When I first boot my Win10 machine, I have about 17-18GB of disk storage space. After about 2 hours (often less), my page file has grown considerably to the point where my storage is out of space and my system crashes. A reset...

Hi, when I do a capture image with cmd, create an iso and then install, Windows create 2 folders on the C drive. $WINDOWS.~BT & $WINDOWS.~LS. Can I prevent this?

Windows Server 2016: Why the C drive of a server gets full while neither data nor heavy software are stored or installed in it, I couldn’t figure out why the C drive of a server gets full while neither data nor heavy software are stored or installed in it as per the screenshots below

Hi i was downloading Euro Truck Simulator 2 but in 4.5% showed this error : ISDone.dll ❌ An error occurred while unpacking: unable to write data to disk! Unarc.dll returned An error code : - 11 ERROR: file write operation failed Any thoughts how to fix it?

Hi all, I'm new to the forum. Basically I register mainly to ask this question. I have a older laptop with an older SSD where I installed Windows 10 (Version 21H1, OS Build 19043.1348) on drive C with the diligently maintained 10-12 Gb of free disk space. I rarely install anything new because I...

My pc tells me i have 43 GB available on 185, and i dont even have an app who's taking so much space, i even checked everywhere if some apps where taking a lot of space but with no results at all, what the hell is going on? can somebody help?

Firstly windows media player was crashing when ripping cd's, now office and other programs are crashing. I updates up to date and plenty of free disk space. I have tried the fixes for WMP and also done 3 system restores and still having same problems.

Can this amount of files be normal. I just ran a virus scan and it stated that my files are ok. My notebook has been running slow and sometimes I cannot make a connection. Can my software and applications be the cause of this many files?

The following's copied and pasted from Link Removed. ――――― 1. I must reduce HD disk space. How safe is deleting Apps.ppkg? Its size is 3.6 GB. I use Windows 10. I must double check because another program file usmt.ppkg MUST NOT be deleted. 2. I read this abstruse explanation of Apps.ppkg, but...

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Windows Server Backup has been running for a couple of years. I see my current backups. It shows the oldest backup date being back in 2018. However, when I click on "Restore" it only shows dates since January 1. Are those backups just gone? Where are they? Perhaps they just don't show up...

Hi After I run a c: drive cleaner when I turn on my pc a popup shows saying "windows cannot acces the specified device, path or file..." see screenshot. Please could you help? I am not allow to open any Ms application it shows that the c: drive is full and even I cleaned it it is still red

I have a system that refuses to boot to Windows 10 Professional (64-bit), and I think I need to do a reinstall. The advanced boot options is available, but it will not go into safe mode. I can however get the command line, and it recognizes both robocopy and xcopy. Assume that C is the hard...

I am trying to figure out how to burn my ISO image for "Windows 10 Enterprise free trial" to my DVD. I have to use a 4.7(4.38)Gb disk and this windows edition below. The ISO image ends up as a file size of 4.5Gb and will not fit on the disk. Can somebody help me to figure this out because this...

I have windows 8 on my laptop, I don't use the laptop its just a spare computer should my main one fail. After installation I don't think I installed anything besides Edge and a cd burner. Within the windows folder however there are a few folders that contain about 25gb or more of data. Prefetch...

I have a windows 10 laptop and I got it at some point in 2018. I don't remember the password or the pin to the administrator account, and I don't have access to the email account associated with it (I have tried to get back in to that email and I can't) Luckily, I have a separate account on the...