disk space

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...

Hi Recently I created a new program thinking it was an additional one. It wiped a lot of my original program files, some of which I reloaded from disk, but a number which I couldn’t. Today I ran a program called “Glary utilities” which analyses the system. In “disk space analyser” there are 2...

When I go into the "privacy and security" settings for chrome, an option for cleaning comes up - "cached images and files" - does anyone know what that includes? Is this an option that could result in deletion of too much stuff? I am always hesitant to do this part of the clean up for that...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19603 to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. You can check out our Windows Insider Program documentation here, including a list of all the new features and updates released in builds so far. Not seeing any of the...

Bookspace disk space I noticed that I have unallocated disk space on the system disk. Quite a lot, in relation to the size of the disc in question, and so I like to use it. Does Windows have any tool / option to add it to C drive? The disk space reserved for programs and applications would...

Hello, I've been messing with my computer (Laptop) for a few hours now trying to get it to work and it just won't. It got hit on the far right of the touchpad, shut off, and now will not boot. I figured maybe it was my hard drive just having boot problems so I created a windows 8 bootable USB...

Hello, Inside every folder in the windows installation drive is blank. Failed Windows startup Auto repair loop was occurring, tried to restore registry with CMD, and there couldn't locate the registry folder/files to copy. So, in order to check Windows folder in that windows installation drive...

Whats the recommended size for Restore Points for an Win10 system partition when I want to store e.g. 8 restore points? Where can I defined where (in which partition) these restore points should be stored? Or are they always on the same partition as the original? Are old Win7 Restore Point...

Hello, I've got many photos to sort on a HDD in numerous folders. I found a software to recursively generate all preview thumbnails. When done, the cache is almost 2go. But when I restart my computer, more than half of the cache is deleted so I have to regenerate the cache once again. I know...

Hi1n The questioner asks Hi everyone, does anyone have any knowledge or solution to the problem where win 8.1 reports insufficient disk space even though 121 GB / 450 GB? The computer performs very poorly and all the steps recommended by Windows in the Insufficient state have been completed...

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...