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Free a lot of space on hard drives? - ℳint - Aug 22, 2016
How do I remove about 20gb worth of hard drive space? It's required for a Windows upgrade. I've tried all the cache cleaning programs including the one installed on Windows.
* - Breeze26509 - Aug 22, 2016
Download and run CCleaner from here.
https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download/standard
* - ℳint - Aug 22, 2016
(Aug 22, 2016 03:30 PM)Breeze26509 Wrote: Download and run CCleaner from here.
https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download/standard
I have been using that for a while, and there's never anything more than 1GB needing to be cleaned
* - Breeze26509 - Aug 22, 2016
Use this and see what's taking up a lot of space.
https://windirstat.info/
I'm assuming you've tried removing applications that you're not using?
* - archangel.dmitry - Aug 22, 2016
Delete not needed restore points.
* - Gt403cyl - Aug 22, 2016
(Aug 22, 2016 04:01 PM)archangel.dmitry Wrote: Delete not needed restore points.
This ^^ in CCleaner go to tools>restore and you delete all but the most recent point.
* - Coton Pker - Aug 22, 2016
you can probably also delete a bunch of the %TEMP% dir.
mine is like 1.3GB worth of shit right now lol.
* - Gt403cyl - Aug 22, 2016
(Aug 22, 2016 04:07 PM)Coton Pker Wrote: you can probably also delete a bunch of the %TEMP% dir.
mine is like 1.3GB worth of shit right now lol.
Temp files are cleaned with CCleaner cleaner.
* - datguy.dev - Aug 22, 2016
(Aug 22, 2016 03:25 PM)ℳint Wrote: How do I remove about 20gb worth of hard drive space? It's required for a Windows upgrade. I've tried all the cache cleaning programs including the one installed on Windows.Besides the normal stuff, with Windows 8+ you can do:
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dism /online /cleanup-image /analyzecomponentstoreI've cleared 5 GBs+ using that in the past.
* - 2Girls1Chuck - Aug 22, 2016
Windirstat is really useful for finding out what's taking up the most space.
* - ℳint - Aug 22, 2016
(Aug 22, 2016 03:51 PM)Breeze26509 Wrote: Use this and see what's taking up a lot of space.Yes. I've removed a lot from a list of programs located at Change or remove a program. Will look into that program. Thanks.
https://windirstat.info/
I'm assuming you've tried removing applications that you're not using?
(Aug 22, 2016 04:01 PM)archangel.dmitry Wrote: Delete not needed restore points.
I have just looked in CCLeaner and I do not see any restore points.
* - Raguel - Aug 23, 2016
If you have 2 drives, you can move your pagefile to the other. It's system cache and takes up a LOT of space.