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    How to optimize SAN storage performance on Windows systems?

    Hello Everyone, I'm currently grappling with optimizing SAN storage performance on Windows systems and would greatly appreciate any insights or best practices you may have to offer. Here's a brief overview of our setup: We're utilizing SAN storage in our Windows environment to handle a...
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    windows server 2019CBStemp file is 40 gb

    We received an alarm on one of our servers about the drive being 90% at capacity. Looking over it found that the CBSTemp file is 40 GB however the filed is empty. Any suggestions?
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    Windows 10 page file growth

    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...
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    Windows 11 Asus board with odd box of entries upon install

    I have ASUS Turbo Lan, , ASUS -CPU -Z and Intel Optane storage and Management in the list of apps.. They all have an uninstall under each of them. If they are worth keeping I will otherwise I ask if they can be uninstalled. I previously uninstalled the first two but no matter how I tried I got...
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    Windows 10 Windows 10 (latest) updates ate up my disk space?

    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...
  6. Windows 11 Does Anyone know how to remove the Windows Old File?

    I want to remove the Windows.old file. I want to get rid of it before I make my System Image of the C:\ drive. It's 27.4 Gigabytes, and I'd like to not have to back it up. I don't need it, I have a System Image of the old drive already. I used to do it with Cleaner, but it doesn't show it as a...
  7. Disk cleanup in Windows 10

    Learn how to run a disk cleanup in Windows 10 including deleting temporary and system files to free up disk space. Continue reading...
  8. Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20279

    Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20279 (FE_RELEASE) to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. This build is largely the same as Build 20277, but we wanted to test our ability to quickly follow-up a flight with another flight. Windows Insiders who...
  9. Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20241

    Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20241 to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. What’s new in Build 20241 Introducing theme-aware splash screens for apps Building on theme-aware tiles in Start, we’re introducing theme-aware splash screens for...
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    LBA errors on partition change

    Hi, I shrank the windows 10 partition on my laptop which was using a new as in unused, but 10 year old hdd, it showed these errors, quite a lot, saying "Failed to rad disk, error 2453 LBA6495272 The software I used was called MiniTool Partition Wizard Is this a dud disk then? windows 10 finds...
  11. Windows 10 Storage Trouble

    Hi, was wondering if I could get any help, but recently I bought a really cheap laptop, and its storage was 30GB. Due to windows 10 being the size it is, that's pretty much all my storage eaten up. i have recently purchased an 240GB SSD but was wondering how I can move all the windows 10 files...
  12. Windows 10 Unallocated disk space

    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...
  13. Windows 10 New Notebook Space Issues

    I just purchased an HP laptop with a 128 GB M.2 SSD Hard Drive. Besides the original setup and adding some basic programs, I've done very little in a week. But my C: Drive has already used 42% (only 69GB free) A further disk analysis shows that, of the total used, Windows has used 30%...
  14. Windows 8 Windows 8.1 unconfigured error message about insufficient disk space

    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...
  15. Upgrading disks on a legacy Win2008 R2 server

    Hi all, We have a legacy Fujitsu Server with just 4x HDD bays (4x disks) - we have 2 mirrored arrays and one of the array is small and we need to upgrade the disks with larger disks but retaining all the data inside. As far as I know the below procedure should work well: - TAKE A FULL BACKUP...
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    Windows 10 Phantom F Drive??

    I have a brand new clean install of Windows 10 Pro, I had recently installed Office 2019 from an ISO which was downloaded to the download folder, I installed from it's current location and all went well, activated product etc. Next time I went into "My PC" I saw my C drive (SSD), my D drive...
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    how can i divide hards in win server 2008?

    i want format my pc and install win server 2008 but the case have 4 hards any hard 300 GB ,so how can i divide them and create drive c and drive d
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    Windows 10 Don't Understand One Drive function

    I offloaded 4500 photos to my new 256GB SSD drive. One Drive says it is now full. I can go in and delete a bunch of them but it seems this SSD drive should fit all of them. Is One Drive also filled with other stuff of mine? Is it the cloud? That's all I can figure. Thanks.
  19. Windows 10 Help me install Office on another directory

    Hello so I have a 30gb SSD C drive and a 1tb hard drive as my D drive. I want to install Office on my D drive and I can't start the setup because it keeps trying to install on the C drive. How can I change this? I don't wanna mess up my registry so what can I do?
  20. Windows 7 What to do with ever-expanding updates Win 7?

    I have a fixed-size partition C for my Windows 7 (I've given it almost 100 GBs and I don't download anything or leave it on C. I have Linux installed as well) and It's coming closer and close to being full. I'd like to hear your suggestions/advice on how you guys deal with this issue/problem?