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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...
  2. Windows 10 Merging volumes to enlarge c: volume

    My Toshiba has had windows 10 replacing win 7 And my C: volume is running out of space ie[39 gb ][only 3gb free] This is how I purchased it I have tried to add space from an f:volume in disk management with no result only 34 gb free space which I can not add to c: My system is left to right...
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    Windows 7 Deleting Windows Restore Points, then wiping the free space

    Hello: I am trying to sell a computer to someone else, and want to more or less sanitize my personal info from the computer. I secure-deleted the files with sensitive info, uninstalled my financial software, and then ran a program like Eraser that claimed to effectively wipe all free space. I...
  4. Windows 7 Running out of Space

    I just now noticed it says under Hard Disk OS(C:) 169GB free of 684 GB. I have no clue how much free space I have left, is 168 GB not very much space? Also is there any way to free up. I did delete all my Downloaded videos, I know they were taking alot of space, that is when it said 169GB...
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    Windows 10 Can't open up my Z drive. Please advise.

    I know this is a familiar problem, but the explanations I've seen for it are very lengthy, and they didn't seem to apply to my exact problem. Please advise. I get this message: "You don't currently have permission to access this folder. Click continue to permanently get access to this folder...
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    Windows 8 Cannot install win 8 iso

    I downloaded win 8 iso and burnt it to a dvd, went into bios and selected boot from cd/dvd. It starts (loading files......) loads twice, then screen goes blank. Left it for 3+ hours screen still blank. Re-started pc, (I have Vista Home Premium) inserted iso disc, run setup.exe, hit install now...
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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...
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    Windows 7 Disk Free Space

    I have an external Seagate 8TB USB disk . As usual , when I have less than 10% free disk space , Win 7 gives me a warning . If this is only a data disk , is it still important to have at least 10% free space ?
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    Windows Vista Shrinking system drive free space in Vista OS, service pack 2

    The free space in my drive keeps shrinking though I haven't installed any new legal software in it. Is this a Vista OS problem, or is this some sort of malware or virus engineered to scrape data fragments off my system drive? What are the fixes for the above two scenarios?
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    Windows 7 Space available on a triple SSD (40GB each) in RAID 0 keeps changing

    A couple of weeks ago I got a message that I had virtually no space on my C drive (3 x 40GB SSD in RAID 0). This was a big surprise. I am running Windows 7 PRO. I removed some restore points to get back to 7 GB of free space. I then did a disk cleanup to get to 11 GB. Since then, the free...
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    Windows 10 Display driver stopped responding and has recovered

    For the past few days I've been getting the "Display driver has stopped responding and has recovered" error. Screen goes black for a while and when it comes back the error pops up. I fear my graphics card is broken, but I hope not. My laptop has one of those switchable graphics boards. An Intel...
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    Windows 7 SSD Free Space Issue

    I have Win 7 Pro 64bit installed on a SSD 250GB along with my Programs and Data on a second SATA Hard Drive. Recently when I looked at my C: SSD from My Computer, I noticed the Used Space Bar was Red and I only had a small value of Free Space left (13GB). I used CCleaner to clean up Temporary...
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    Conversation of disk space format

    Hi guys , I am trying to convert the Freespace and Size to GB format using the script command : WMIC LOGICALDISK GET Name,Size,Freespace /format:value FreeSpace=61612036096 Name=C: Size=87780155392 The result I desire is something like : FreeSpace=61GB Name=C: Size=87GB Can anyone help...
  15. Windows 7 Windows 7 very slow and need help to free up space.

    Hi all, I have a MacBook Pro with Bootcamp, on which I am running Windows 7. I've had it since 2011 and think the system has accumulated a lot of junk over the years. My question is this: I have very little installed on my hard drive but the memory is nearly full and my laptop is being VERY...
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    Windows 10 Lost hard drive space

    Hi all. I have installed Windows 10 with very few problems (other than the learning curve), however, the free space on the hard drive is now 20GB smaller than before the upgrade from Windows 8.1. Poking around, I discovered that there is what appears to be a "backup" folder of 20GB within the...
  17. Windows 8 File Explorer crashes when scrolling in Pictures folder

    Hi guys, I've a HP All-in-one Model no: 23-K315na; Win8.1; Fully patched; All Drivers up-2-date; 16GB Ram; 1TB Hard Disk; Free Space 635GB; Pictures folder has 159GB (I'm an amateur Photographer!) Eset Smart Security v8; scanned clean; also scanned with MWB clean PROBLEM: When I open the...
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    Windows 10 Permission windows 10

    While trying to remove old windows files to free up space PC wants admin permission I click ok then as its calculating/gathering files PC wants system permission I click try again and wind up with the same response
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    Windows 7 How to shift all free space on hard disk to get contigous free space?

    My NTFS non-system partition is now almost well defragmented. However this applies only to small and medium sized files. There are still approx 40 big files (> 1 GB) which cannot be defragmented because there is no free single (!) space slot where they fit in. So I need a way to shift all...
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    Windows 8 windows 8.1 upgrade

    Hi i have a laptop hp with windows 8 64 bit. i am trying to upgrade to windows 8.1 64 bit i have used space 46.7gb free space 859gb capacity 905 gb momory ram 800 gb when trying to upgrade to windows 8.1 get windows 8.1 couldn't be installed. i have all the microsoft windows updates i...