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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.
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Download and run CCleaner from here.
https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download/standard
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(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
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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?
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Delete not needed restore points.
(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.
you can probably also delete a bunch of the %TEMP% dir.
mine is like 1.3GB worth of shit right now lol.
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I'm not a doctor, will never be a doctor, take what I say with a grain of salt and look it up for yourself.
(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.
(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:
Code
dism /online /cleanup-image /analyzecomponentstore
Read: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...2147217396

I've cleared 5 GBs+ using that in the past.
Windirstat is really useful for finding out what's taking up the most space.
(Aug 22, 2016 03:51 PM)Breeze26509 Wrote:  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?
Yes. I've removed a lot from a list of programs located at Change or remove a program. Will look into that program. Thanks.
(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.
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If you have 2 drives, you can move your pagefile to the other. It's system cache and takes up a LOT of space.


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