What are Reddit's favorite System Cleaner Apps?

WinDirStat. Best application ever for cleaning up your harddrives. It gives you a graphical represenation of how much space each and every file takes up and makes it easy for you to delete them or entire catalogue structures. Makes it easy to find huge moviefiles you've forgotten in a folder somewhere or a catalogue of thousands of small cashe files made by some application like Adobe Premiere or whatever.

I use WinDirStat, it's an open source tool to find large file blobs on your computer.

It takes a while to scan, but I can find stuff with it that no other tool would have found, like a large chunk of rotten pizza below a pillow, with the name "Ubuntu 12.vdi" written on it.

Edit: WinDirStat > TreeSize

get the program WinDirStat there are others like it but this is the one i like

My guess windows updated and you have a windows.old that is large. (this is to recover in case the update broke)

Let me change your life friend. This is WinDirStat Give it a couple minutes and it sizes up all of your used disk space, both graphically and with folders that are measured in percentage.

I have to work with computers filled like this all the time. I use patchcleaner from http://www.homedev.com.au/free/patchcleaner . You may also want to look at the winsxs folder. I launch cleanmgr from an admin command prompt to clean that one.

> "Clinton special."

The IT team for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton used the open source cleaning software BleachBit to wipe systems "so even God couldn’t read them," according to South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy on Fox News. His comments on the "drastic cyber-measure" were in response to the question of whether her emails were simply about "yoga and wedding plans."

It's probably one game going out of control. Mine personally is 50mb for the whole thing.

I agree that you generally shouldn't poke in there, but in this case, I recommend running something like WinDirStat to find what game is using so much space. One you know the folder, go to:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/<appid>/

To see what game it is.

Hazel by Noodlesoft might be a good way to keep organised if you give yourself time to set it up. It's basically a WYSIWYG editor for automating files and folders. I've got mine set-up to automatically sort my work and college files based on keywords, where they were downloaded from and such. Also, it automatically puts video's in my video folder, documents in documents.. you get the idea.

And I've got a "temporary folder" set-up that trashes anything that's inside it after 24 hours. Especially handy when e.g. downloading and watching a series and having it gone the next day. This temporary folder is actually the most handy thing I've ever come up with as a way to prevent cluttering. Definitely give it a shot!

Your Mac will keep fast & snappy by itself (or have you noticed any slowndowns?), but if you want more hands-on control you can use OnyX. OnyX is a GUI for running script/routines that your mac usually runs automatically when it thinks it's necessary.

Here’s the windirstat download /u/testicular_prolapse (great name) if you don’t know what the above comment is talking about. You can download it and run it on your drive to get a graphical representation of files on your machine, like this. Super useful if you’re running out of space on your drive and don’t know where it is. The bigger the box, the bigger the file, and if you click on boxes it’ll tell you where/what the file is. Feel free to DM me if you need any help running it - it’s a very useful program

Edit: also agreed with the above comment that you should definitely not be completely out of space when removing everything but bare essentials. Even a basic laptop with a 128GB SSD should have good wiggle room. I one time found a 250GB corrupt video file when using windirstat, so it’s not unheard of

For those who want a replacement for CCleaner, use Bleachbit. Open source and does what CCleaner does.

EDIT: One bit of information. If your files are on a SSD, you do not need overwrite the files to truly delete them. TRIM will actually delete the data

I've been using CCleaner since the early 2000's when it was called Crap Cleaner. Haven't updated in a few years because, why would I? The version I had did what it should. I've always been happy with it.

Then this news came along. Sure my version still works, but I no longer trust them. This after more than a decade of being a loyal user. Funny how one bit of news can sever the relationship but that's just how I feel about it.

So I've moved onto BleachBit. It's open source with pretty regular commits and works on multiple platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X).

Sorry, Piriform.

Bleachbit actually made their own microfibre cloth printed with HRC's face during the famous presser. I bought a handful of these during the campaign and added it to my memorabilia. See image below.

https://www.bleachbit.org/images/cloth_or_something3.jpg

Sounds like you have a lot of orphaned installer files. Recommend PatchCleaner http://www.homedev.com.au/free/PatchCleaner. I've used the successfully in the past. Just run it to see how many orphaned files you have, that should indicate if this is truly where the problem lies. Then decide whether to go ahead and move/remove

Use Windirstat (https://windirstat.net/) to check the size of folders and files.

You may also want to do a clean up system files: right click C:, properties and click "Disk Clean-up". There you click the button in the lower left, "Clean up system files". There may be an old installation of windows hanging about after an upgrade (they're deleted after 30 days or something)

> Meuller’s indictments of 12 Russian intelligence agents prove that the Kremlin stole the election for Trump

Accusations as proof? This soviet-style propaganda would be funny if it weren't so sad...

Here, something to cheer us all up: https://www.bleachbit.org/cloth-or-something

I'd recommend installing https://windirstat.net/ and removing files you can from the C Drive.

This program will help visualize the space used on your HDD.

Depending on if you use the Hibernate function that can remove a good chunk of GB from your HDD by deleting it.

Follow the Step by steps here: https://www.nextofwindows.com/what-is-hiberfilsys-and-how-to-delete-in-windows-7-free-up-hard-drive-space

I had done this for an upgrade to Windows 10 on my brothers PC and it can squeeze that bit of space you need.

WinDirStat is a program that calculates a visualization of every file on a disk. Files that are larger in size are represented by a larger square. The files are also colored based upon their type.

Take off the bottom panel and use a can of compressed air to clean the fans. Keep your C-drive from filling up, defrag your HDDs sometimes, (SSDs typically don't need to be defrag'd) pay attention to your CPU/GPU temperatures and repaste (or have someone else do it) if you start to see a big change in how your computer performs and the temps your seeing.

WinDirStat is an awesome program for keeping your hard drive from getting too cluttered.

Windows also has a built-in maintenance tool called Disk Clean-up that I use every once in a while to delete unnecessary clutter

Sounds like you did a cut and paste instead of a copy and paste. I always do copy and paste when it's important, then delete once the copy completes successfully and I can verify the copy works as intended. You can try using this on both drives. I'm not sure if there is a program that can repair files from two halves of them, but I know Windows will just 'lose' files if a cut and paste operation gets ended abruptly, it's happened to me on less important files before many times. Good luck to you. The linked file recovery program is the only free one I've found that has the best success rate of finding deleted files (assuming the drive was writing the data as it was receiving it, if some data was in the drives buffer, those bits will be lost). Most drives will buffer the data then write it once the buffer is full to make writes faster, most buffers are either 32 or 64MB.

As far as getting the drive working without a reformat, try and recover the bits first that are 'corrupted', then try running a filesystem check on the drive to repair the file table. Worse case scenario is you'll have to reformat it, if there are any files on there that aren't backed up, the linked recovery program should be able to recover them.

Oh, sure, that's true. Some are more partisan than others and may conveniently disregard untruths by their preferred candidate, or go more aggressively against the other one.

That still doesn't really help Trump though, given that the overwhelming majority of fact checkers all say that he made far more false statements than Clinton did, so either they're pretty much ALL heavily biased towards her, or... he just lies a lot more.

I checked up on the MSNBC acid wash one you suggested and, well, it's a technicality.

Did Clinton erase the emails? Yes.

Did she use a process called "Acid washing"? No, that is a meaningless and made up term. It's not a thing in I.T.

So technically they're correct, but they really should have elaborated to point that out more clearly. They did at least mention that she used BleachBit, which is a tool used to erase data off computers, but they really should have been more specific. Their mentioning that does at least show that they weren't entirely trying to cover up the fact that she deleted the emails.

Edits: Added a couple lines for clarification.

Another edit: Actually, while I'm on this "acid wash" one, Trump keeps talking about what an expensive process that was and how much it cost taxpayers. In fact, BleachBit is free software.

Download WinDirStat and use it every couple months to clean out the garbage you don't need. Been a live saver for me since I run purely SSD storage on my rig. Disabling hibernate also saves quite a bit of room as well.

Download this free program and you tell us how it happened: https://windirstat.net/

Running this program can help get rid of junk and cached files: https://www.piriform.com/CCLEANER

Often it is excess cached data in the %appdata% folder from Google and Microsoft.

WinDirStat to the rescue!

On linux, ncdu is basically the command line version of this.

Edit: It's strange that the professional version of TreeSize doesn't work for you, I've never used it but based on the name, TreeSize sounds like it has one goal in life: give you the size of directory trees. Having it not work is a grade A failure (considering how simple it is to determine a folder's size, any coder could code up something that does this in a few minutes).

https://www.bleachbit.org/cloth-or-something

Bonus: How to Delete Secret Emails from Microsoft Exchange Server

Everything about them.

She was supposed to turn over all work-related emails, but there was no need to turn over non-work-related ones.

So how does she go about doing this?

She literally prints tens of thousands of emails and sends them on paper (!), making it a whole fucking lot harder to go through them. They have to be manually scanned and categorised. This also made searching them more difficult, because you are searching hand-scanned PDF files instead of plain digital text.

Then she SAYS these are ALL the work-related ones.

Maybe someone wanted to check if that was the case? Maybe there was a danger there were sensitive work-related emails she hadn't turned over?

Nope, after printing off and sending the mountains of documents she claimed were all the relevant ones, she DELETED all her emails and used software to PREVENT DATA RECOVERY - "Bleachbit".

In retrospect it was discovered there were a bunch of emails that WERE work related but she deleted. They were recovered through other means.

She got classified information sent to a shitty home-setup server in her basement. It would have been a prime hacking target by pretty much everyone in the world - and they would have the IP address each time she emailed from it (the recipient sees the sending IP). That's like storing classified information in a shitty home-built shack, and sending the address of it to every foreign government.

She also tried to get around restrictions on sending classified information by stripping out the part that says CLASSIFIED so that people wouldn't react to it being sent by regular fax. You are not supposed to send classified information by regular fax.

This is just Hillary's emails. The DNC emails contain a whole lot more shit.

This might be shot in the dark. There is an application called Hazel by noodlesoft. It’s a folder / file automation tool. The software can monitor a folder and do different actions to a file. You can give a folder a simple instruction set and the software will perform it if the trigger is met.

They might even have an action pre-made for something like this. Check it out.

https://www.noodlesoft.com

For just clearing out space, I highly suggest something like WinDirStat. It gives you a handy visualization of your hard drive to let you see what is taking up space where.

I also like to use one of the many duplicate file finding programs out there to clean up duplicate images and the like.

WinDirStat is handy to see what all is on your drive. For those who like pictures and graphs, it's very effective. It's a great product that I use quite often, especially when I need to figure out what is taking up so much damned space!

He has such a nice smile in that picture. A genuinely happy man.

When I saw this, I knew he had, without any further doubt, won. However, it was when Florida, and then Pennsylvania went red, I had a massive grin on my face and was like 'Holy shit, they actually did it!'

As for things that trigger SJW's, how about this?

He still doesnt understand what bleachbit is. Frankly Clinton would have been stupid not to use some sort of delete tool to delete any files she had on her computer. As SOS she would have been intimately aware of how stuff that gets thrown in the trash on a computer can be recovered.

Funny how they were praising him just some months ago, isn't it?

Lets wipe the whole fucking lot of them with a Cloth or Something.

These dumbarses are going to be crying on November 9th when Trump wins.

I'd like to point out that while the quote there is speculative, the speculative aspect was regarding motivation. BleachBit probably believes they were used because South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy went on Fox News and used that name specifically, and three times in twenty seconds. Here it is, queue'd up.

He's a former prosecutor, he was the lead of the House's special select committee to investigate Benghazi, a few other qualifications. I get why you thought this whole thing was just a marketing ploy (because it totally is a marketing ploy, and more power to 'em) but they likely didn't just insert themselves into the discussion, and since the examiner did link BleachBit's post on the issue I imagine they at least watched the relevant half-minute of the Rep's interview.

Allow me to introduce you to one of my favorite tools for Windows.

https://windirstat.net/

This download is 100% safe, but you can google it if you're unsure. Here's the Wikipedia page for it.

This program will create a visual, interactive representation of the contents of your hard drive. To put it simply, the larger the squares, the larger the corresponding file is. You can move your mouse over the square to read what the file itself is, and you can even right click on the square and open the file in Explorer to delete it/double-check it.

Give it a go, let me know if you have any questions. This should give you a great idea of what's taking up the most space in your drive.

From the BleachBit website-

With BleachBit you can free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and discard junk you didn't know was there.... Beyond simply deleting files, BleachBit includes advanced features such as shredding files to prevent recovery, wiping free disk space to hide traces of files deleted by other applications, and vacuuming Firefox to make it faster." Link

OmniDiskSweeper is another option for the Mac.

http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnidisksweeper/

SpaceSniffer on Windows is another.

http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/

One more way on the Mac, if you don't want to install additional programs (and are comfortable in the terminal) is to use the 'du' command. For example:

$ du -ch -d 1 ~ \8.0K /Users/phormality/.adobe 3.4M /Users/phormality/.dropbox 164K /Users/phormality/.fontconfig 4.0K /Users/phormality/.plex 1020K /Users/phormality/.swt 11M /Users/phormality/.Trash 0B /Users/phormality/Applications 15M /Users/phormality/Desktop 96K /Users/phormality/Development 81M /Users/phormality/Documents 5.9G /Users/phormality/Downloads 280M /Users/phormality/Dropbox 8.2G /Users/phormality/Library 1.0M /Users/phormality/Movies 79G /Users/phormality/Music 7.0G /Users/phormality/Pictures 756M /Users/phormality/Public 20K /Users/phormality/Sites 4.7G /Users/phormality/tmp 106G /Users/phormality 106G total

Hazel (free to try, $29.00, OS X, 10.8 or later) Hazel will automatically take action on your files, using the rules you create, keeping your folders in order. If you want to achieve the utopian state of a self-cleaning, self-organizing Mac, this is the little helper you can do without.

Vjerojatno imaš gomilu nepotrebnih stvari na sistemskom disku. Ovo je iznimno korisna stvarčica - analiziraj C i vidjet ćeš što točno zauzima prostor, pa lagano kreni čistiti.

WinDirStat is a program that calculates a visualization of every file on a disk. Files that are larger in size are represented by a larger square. The files are also colored based upon their type.

> And you can use the portable version of CCleaner which doesn't install anything

Or even better, don't support them and their scummy practices in any way and use BleachBit instead

It's normal for a program to allocate space before it begins writing information. This is to prevent the end user from filling that space before the operation is complete. In the case of ESO this is particularly inconvenient because it is a very large game. If you do not have enough disk space and do not want to remove anything from your current disk then yes, you will have to buy a new drive. You can normally get 120GB SSDs for around $40-$60 on sale, I would suggest going that route as it's fairly cost effective and will help boost your load times.

Otherwise, looking into some space saving utilities to help clean up your current disk. WinDirStat will help you see where the greatest concentrations of data are on your machine, and help you clean up efficiently. BleachBit will help to clear out junk taking up space on your PC. I recommend this over CCleaner. ESO is worth the pain of getting it installed if you're a fan of MMOs and Elder Scrolls

Have you tried running WinDirStat?

https://windirstat.net/

It helps me find the bloat and then either delete or transfer.

Your drive will probably run much faster if you’re able to get to a free space threshold , ymmv depending on drive type.

>On a freshly installed system? Perhaps.
>After a little use? It usually is larger than that.

No. If C:\Windows is larger than 20GB due to MSI's not cleaningup properly or Windows Update not cleaning up properly, then you need to clean up. After a format using the latest Pro x64 1709 image your Windows Folder will be around 16GB.

Disk Clean-upcan work for the Windows Update stuff, but you'll need something like Patch Cleaner to help clear up orphaned MSI's in WinSXS. Keep in mind that this is risky and can cause updates to MSI installations to fail or applocations to no longer uninstall, but you'll save space if desperate.

>And even so, 2 GB is just 10%. Sure, every byte counts, but this can't be the main advantage of Windows 10 Lean.

I agree, a saving of 2GB isn't a lot. Let's see what else they can trim. Most of the space is drivers for plug and play which I feel is unnecessary, a long with a bunch of legacy crap ;)

Just a PSA that WizTree (or alternatively WinDirStat but it's way slower) are both free and amazing tools for finding out what files on your PC are taking up space. Had the same problem a month ago.

SpaceSniffer is quite nice if you need a program like that but there is no reason to keep it on your computer all the time. WinDirStat is a similar program that I personally prefer.

There's no reason to delete/clean up registry entries. There is no measurable performance difference in doing so at all, and it can cause issues.

I personally don't recommend installing program to uninstall a program unless for example a program is corrupt in some way and can't be uninstalled through normal means. Usually everything is removed when something is uninstalled, often enough in my opinion. Taking a look in places where stuff can be left behind takes 10 minutes or less and it's not something you need to do often.

Also keep in mind that Windows 10 has something called Storage Sense that you can run to clean up basic stuff like temp files, thumbnails, old Windows Update/Windows Install files, etc. You can turn it on to do it once a month automatically*(you can also set it up to only run when you're low on storage space, or once a day/week)*.

I'm just saying that's where they should be, alright?

If they're not there then it's probably not something you need to be worrying about.

Still, if you're worried about drive space? If I can't find where all my HD space has gone, I run a scan with WinDirStat.

WinDirStat

Have you ever wondered how the fuck you have that many space used on your disks but cba to browse directory by directory and find out?

This is a fucking godsend.

That was it! I was using WinDirStat (great program to graphically view disk usage), and not running it as an admin. So It wasn't showing me the 77GB of log files in C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles\W3SVC2

The bleachbit website is pure internet gold

https://www.bleachbit.org/cloth-or-something

My favorite article on their site:

https://www.bleachbit.org/news/how-delete-secret-emails-microsoft-exchange

If your drive is that small, run a program called WinDirStat. It will show you exactly which folder has the most data in it. My guess would be updates or the Temp folder. I had this same issue and ended up having to delete over 250gb of microsoft updates from the last 3-4 years it apparently didn't remove after installation.

https://windirstat.net/download.html

Just like what /u/tomble said, I definitely think you should use windirstat first and see what folders/files are eating up space, this will help you get to the bottom of this issue and will show you what folders you can then clear up space in. Depending on what files you find eating space will help resolve everything too. This isn't the sort of thing that malware usually does, so I doubt that's what's happening, though it is possible.

Even if you got tron to run in your current state, there's a good chance tron might not even resolve the issue here unless the files eating space happen to be in temp folders that tron clears. If the files are somewhere else and aren't anything that trona sees as malicious, it'll just ignore them.

https://windirstat.net/download.html

And sometimes it gets that „not-so-shit“ off yourl machine. Get rid of CleanMyMac. Rather check with DaisyDisk to find things. I only have an uninstaller. The best imo is this one because you have full control. But uninstalling only. Not that automated cleaning stuff

There's a long, long list of Samsung drives which are afflicted by the slow read bug. It occurs after 9-40 weeks, depending on the namometer production process. For example, a 21nm NAND package's performance decays over 40 weeks. A 19nm TLC NAND package decays after 9 weeks.

Most Ultrabooks use some kind of TLC-based mSATA or ePCI SSD. For example, the Dell XPS 13 has a Samsung PM851 drive. The Lenovo Yoga also has TLC. Unfortunately, Samsung Magician is not compatible with the OEM drives used in Ultrabooks. The only tool I've seen that restores performance is DiskFresh.

EDIT: Samsung's policy regarding this debacle was to claim the drives are OEM and therefore aren't covered under warranty.

I've heard that this tool doesn't fix anything until it detects data read speeds in the 250 MB/s ballpark. Which is absolutely unacceptable in a SSD of this calibar.

I'm not even going to bother with this "fix". Since Samsung botched the first one and then missed their March projection for the release of the second attempt, I've taken things into my own hands.

I run weekly HDTune benchmarks and save the results. Once I see read speeds trending downward below 400 MB/s, I run DiskFresh. It's not a fast program but it surprisingly has very little overhead so it can be run in the background during normal system use. It basically does the same thing that the first Samsung tool did - re-writes the data on the drive resulting in like-new performance. 450 MB/s reads across the whole drive.

Is this a bit of a hassle? Yeah, but it's better than enduring slow boots and load times in the long run. Does it accelerate wear on the drive? Yeah, but SSD's have such longevity that even it loses a year or two off of useful life I'll still be ready to upgrade well before it dies.

That's 10GB more than it should be.

Clean up your winsxs folder with

Dism.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /AnalyzeComponentStore Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup 

And delete(or move) the orphaned install with patchcleaner

I cannot think of a solution to exactly what you are asking for, but I'll comment again if I do... I'm thinking something in path finder could potentially help...

However, Hazel is a great little piece of software that will automatically sort your files for you based on file attributes of all sorts (site downloaded from, file extension, associated opening program, dimensions/size, etc)

hazel - you can define a set of rules and it organizes your files and folders (example: move everything from desktop that's older than x days, move downloaded files by type into folders, etc).

A few different reasons, but these two are the most common:

1) How much do you store in your recycle bin? You won't be able to access or search for the recycle bin in your file explorer (picture to the left), but the space is still reserved on C: by default.

2) Some space is taken up by system restore points that you are unable to search for. If you want to see how much space is reserved for this purpose, do the following:

1. Right-click "This PC" in your file explorer and click on "Properties"

2. In the left menu click on "System protection", select C: and click on "Configure"

You will be able to see how much space is currently used for this purpose and also set a cap on it.

If you want to really see what's on your hard drive, you can install WinDirStat. But it's very common to lack ~10GB on a newly installed Windows 10 computer that you cannot search for, I do it too (9,5GB) and this computer was installed just a week ago.

Windows and bloatware most likely.

You could have a look with WinDirStat since it will actually tell you how big each folder is unlike modern Windows versions. When opening it, keep on eye on the green progress bar at the bottom. It takes some time for it to scan all your files and folders so folder sizes won't be correct until it's done scanning.

> I'm also curious if theres a better way to display files and folders, outside of the current file and folders system... If that makes sense... I feel a way to view the file system as a network graph would make sense...

Check out WinDirStat. I use it all the time and I love it.

I too work in IT. The bit that makes me twitch the worst is whenever he talks about Hillary's email. He consistently and repeatedly says that Hillary "acid washed" her emails. He repeated this as recently as this last week at a rally.

The whole situation with emails is complicated, but what actually happened is that Hillary's IT guy used a standard open source free secure deletion utility called BleachBit to delete her archive PST.

Fox hosts repeatedly mentioned "bleach"ing emails, so I assume Trump took this to mean she literally bleached her emails, and then changed the phrasing to "acid washed".

Bleach is a base, the literal opposite of an acid.

There's just so many levels on which he's wrong it's hard to unpack. Every time he talks about computers my head hurts.

WinDirStat can help with that. It'll visualize your harddrive and show you exactly which files or folders tare taking up a lot of space.

Also running Disk Cleanup can help.

There are two (temporary) fixes I know of. The one I mentioned above is what is referenced in the article, it was the first fix released by Samsung, that ended up only temporarily restoring performance, "Samsung SSD 840 EVO Performance Restoration Software" -

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/us/html/support/downloads.html

The second temporary fix would be essentially re-writing every bit of data on the drive (in-place), which in theory gets the performance back to original for a while. You can do this with a program like Disk Fresh -

http://www.puransoftware.com/DiskFresh.html

Both these are just bandaids, and don't fix the underlying issue that is causing the slowdowns. So, after running either you can expect performance to degrade again just as it has in the past.

a hazel or file juggler alternative for linux with a similar easy to use GUI.

not every linux user is some bash/python kung fu master.

i just want a gui for this and im willing to pay/donate/whatever

Just get the nice tool " geek uninstaller" its a Portable uninstaller ( and free ) which will clean all traces of all kinds of programs many programs leave trash behind ...

Windows will pre-download some updates and also create cache files that can end up to be pretty large. You can check https://windirstat.net/ to see exactly how your storage usage is distributed

I wouldn't recommend Ccleaner personally. Avast were caught installing malware into it a few years ago. When it was discovered they quickly withdrew it BUT they still take users system information via Active Monitoring. Ahh, but I turned that off! Maybe so, but as soon as you re-open the program it re-activates active monitoring regardless.

I used to install Ccleaner on every system I fixed until the 2017 malware incident. I recommend BleachBit for cleaning these days.
Sorry OP, but others have already suggested ShellExView which is what I'd use also

>Were the emails classified?

You mean retroactively, like Clintons? Probably not yet.

>Did she wipe the server with bleach bit?

Are you suggesting wiping files with an effective wiping program is not a good way to practice computer maintenance? Bleachbit is one of many such programs which does what it it designed.

>Did foreign adversaries have access to the emails?

Did they have access to Clinton's? Do you have documentation to prove that?

>Nobody cares if the emails weren't classified.

Except Clinton's use of private emails was not illegal at the time. It was actually common practice by people such as Colin Powell and Condolizza Rice. Ivanka's use of privatre emails is illegal.

Will you shout "Lock her up?"

Their How to Delete Secret Emails from Microsoft Exchange Server article is hillaryious: https://www.bleachbit.org/news/how-delete-secret-emails-microsoft-exchange

I would definitely buy Bleachbit if I had to wipe a server. But it's very expensive.

I am partial to geek uninstaller. https://geekuninstaller.com/
There is aonther called revo uninstaller too I have heard good things about. Windows leaves it up to the program writiers making the programs to make uninstallers, but they usually leave behing a ton of garbage in my experience.

Windirstat is a tool that will show you visually what is using up space.

https://windirstat.net/download.html

In general, stay out of \Windows altogether and make sure you understand whatever else is before you delete it.

It shouldn't harm anything at all, but it's odd that Steam isn't deleting everything when you uninstall (unless it's leaving mods or third-party utilities behind).

You might want to take a look at WinDirStat, it's a tool for identifying what's eating up your storage space.

1. Windows 7 has been out of support for 1.5 years now. That computer should no longer be being used when connected to the internet. Continuing to use it is a massive security risk for things like identity theft as well as giving attackers access to your entire network. Very honestly, that computer should be disconnected from the internet until you're able to upgrade.
2. Cleaning up single digit megabytes isn't going to help anything. Modern OSes and browsers will cache various files and data to speed things up, if you only have 8MB total free, you're talking minutes of normal runtime would fill that up. If you truly want to investigate it though, I'd highly recommend WinDirStat to get a good visual representation of what's taking up space. Additionally, this could be from #1, it's highly possible your machine has been compromised and is being used without your knowledge for other processes.

Windows folder description could be wrong, windows doesn't recursive calc it right, I recommend you to try something like WinDirStat, it have a tree view of the exact size of every folder.

Agree with all the comments about recovering deleted files. If you aren't able to locate after trying that, try to install WinDirStat, and it will search HDD for disk usage and might help spot out where large files are located.

https://windirstat.net/

I like OmniDiskSweeper better. It's not as pretty as DaisyDisk, but it has a feature that I can not live without: "Size in OmniDiskSweeper" services. It's really convenient when you're browsing through a random folder and wondering how much spaced is used (including its subdirs).

It's also free!

Yeah, unfortunately it sounds like your HDD is dead/dying. If you can plug it into another PC and read it, use Puran File Recovery orRoadkil's Unstoppable Copier to get as much off as you can!

This is what I used. Took a while for it to run, couple hours if I recall. From what I understand it rewrites your data on the ssd, although I may be misunderstanding it's function. It works at least. http://www.puransoftware.com/DiskFresh.html

download windirstat. It will tell you directory sizes to quickly see where files are.

Run disk cleanup

Download patch cleaner to clear out orphaned crap in installer folder.

http://www.homedev.com.au/Free/PatchCleaner

Yes. There is totally software that can help you. Its called Hazel and it is super smart. It can scan files in a folder and then move them to where they need to go by the date, content, etc. https://www.noodlesoft.com/

In terms of downloading the files. Its a bit more difficult. You could use something like Keyboard Maestro to record macros to automatically download emails and attachments. But once they are downloaded Hazel can take care of the rest.

I personally tried it and its useful but I couldn't afford the price point. About 45$

if you find yourself needing to automate lots of actions, try out the app Hazel

it's a nice way to configure simple-to-complex automations with a variety of triggers. I replaced automator with this tool for a variety of complex file actions and it works great.

If you can mount the drive so that it shows up as a folder on your machine, then you can use linux commands/tools, for example :

For 2, you can use the following command, just make sure you're in the right folder :

find . -type d -empty -delete

This will start from the current folder "." , search for all the folders "-type d", select all empty ones "-empty" and delete them "-delete".

If you want just to see what folders it would delete but don't actually do it, leave out the "-delete" part, it will simply list the folders it would delete.

For 4 you can apply something similar as for 2 :

find . -type f -size 0 -delete

This will start from the current folder "." , search for all the files "-type f", select all empty ones "-size 0" and delete them "-delete".

As for 2, if you just want to get a list of files and don't actually delete them, leave out the "-delete" part of the command.

For 3, duplicate files you can try findup from the fslint package, it has a GUI and a command line tool too.

Whatever tools you end up trying, i recommend doing a temporary folder with some sample data and use it on that one, to make sure it does what you expect it to do. The last thing you want is to delete the wrong files. I know you can actually recover deleted files from gdrive, but if you delete a lot of them, it's a PITA to try and recover them all.

If you don't need any specific Windows software, have you considered going for a Unix distribution instead?

 

> Keyboard shortcuts for Mac user hands (I can't get over feeling the Ctrl key is only for control characters)

I had the same problem when I had to use a Mac at work. AFAIK, there is no proper way to rebind them for every piece of software, except by editing the registry, which does sometime lead to unexpected results.

 

> Package management (like Homebrew on Mac)

Nope, or nothing that I am aware of. Closest thing i would suggest is Ninite, but it is not as complete. Should be enough for most standard users, not sure if it will fit your use-case.

 

> Cruft management (uninstalling apps, registry, #FML)

Check GeekUninstaller. Do not trust the built-in windows uninstaller, it does not clean registry, nor does it clean temporary and config files.

 

> A terminal that doesn't suck

Not the base terminal with Windows command line. I use Putty to connect locally to WSL, which does work without hogging tons of CPU, but looking for alternatives, as I had to do lots of tweaking to get the older version on WSL to run headless. I do remember WSL patch-notes saying that had been corrected, but i'm too lazy to upgrade to the current version.

 

> Docker

Used it for work, was not too much of a pain to setup, ran decently.

It can, and typically will if you use Windows' native uninstaller. When you uninstall a program, it will typically leave behind stuff in places that were not in the installation folder, such as user settings files, registry entries, etc. Some of this is purposeful (for example, if you install the program again all your settings will still be there), but a lot of it is just laziness.

I personally like to use the free version of geek uninstaller to avoid exactly this. When you uninstall a program through this tool, it runs the uninstallation executable like normal, but then scans your folders and registry for any other files that the program left behind and deletes those as well. You can also use it to easily "force" an uninstall of a program that is giving you a hard time otherwise.

I'd suggest a particular favorite tool of mine, called WinDirStat.
Great for a comprehensive visual overview of filesystem usage.
Saved my butt several times. :)

With it, you could pretty easily track down large files or folders that are hoggin' up your drive's capacity. Give it a shot.

Look at the folder and see what's still there. If it was 16GB before and you only gained 4GB, there's probably still 12GB left.

If you're trying to find out what's taking a lot of space to free up some room on the drive, check out WinDirStat.

Jeez that's hella big, it doesn't look so normal to me.

Check with WinDirStat, try to pinpoint the huge files being held at, starting from C:\Windows , click on the biggest square and show me screenshot.

" Windows Directory Statistics " might be useful to you, https://windirstat.net/

From the website: "WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for various versions of Microsoft Windows. "

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it's a free program that might help you solve your problem, it's come in handy for me a few times in the past.

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Also, try looking in Windows "Resource Monitor" (press windows key + r, then type "resmon" in the run box) check under "disk" tab and see which process is at the top for writing to disk. Might help shed some light on the issue.

If you have show protected operating system files and folders enabled, it will show you pretty much everything.

HOWEVER, one thing in windows is if you do not have permissions to a folder (yes even administrators do not always have permissions to everything always), you will not be able to see the contents and the size of said contents in an folder (folders like those used for system restore for example are like this).

If you want a nice visual representation of what is on your drive and how much space it consumes relative to other items, i personally recommend WinDirStat

Assuming Windows since you mention control panel, if not then let me know which OS you use.

Using a folder size viewer tool such as https://windirstat.net/download.html can let you know the size of folders visually and allow you to drill down and evaluate where the usage is. The program should be safe, it is a free open source project like Firefox.

That's weird. Provisining takes up around 10% (look to the manufacturer of your ssd for exactly how much they provision).

There are free programs that will analyze disk space.

WinDirStat is one. WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool;

https://windirstat.net/index.html

Start there.

The OS also takes some space there, not only the apps.
And if you only have a single storage drive, all that is on your PC is also there : downloads, music, documents, videos, etc....

That being said the built-in tool to check what is taking which amount of storage is very limited. Use WinDirStat or SpaceSniffer for a more efficient way to hunt down where the real culprits are.

Do you really have only a single 120GB storage drive ? That is really tight in those days and age.
Besides, having the drive near full capacity like that isn't good for its performance

Not sure what you mean. Windows 10 should be around 20GB not including your own stuff. Check with WinDirStat to see what's eating up your SSD. Best thing to do is to buy a HDD for secondary drive to put your backup data and some games on it and your primary SSD for the OS and main programs/apps.

Computer Slow on Startup? Open up 'msconfig' via the Search Feature in the Start Menu and select the "Startup" tab. Disable all applications from starting up, unless you want it too. Things like Steam and Skype will be there.

Unexplained Crashes with no error messages? Open up Event Viewer via the Search Feature in the Start Menu, select "Windows Logs", and then Application. Give it about a minute or two to startup as there are thousands of log entries. Most of these events will be "Information" level, but any errors will be categorized as such.

Can't find out what's taking up so much space on your Computer? Download WinDirStat (Windows Directory Statistics).

Can't find out what's using up so many system resources? Open up the Resource Monitor via the Search Feature in the Start Menu.

Computer Still inexplicably running slow? Install Linux.

Shortcuts

CTRL + ALT + DEL - Task Manager

ALT + TAB - Change Application

CTRL + X - Cut (Copies to clipboard and deletes)

CTRL + C - Copy

CTRL + V - Paste

ALT + F4 - Rage Quit

F2 - Rename

F1 - Help (In some applications)

Windows Key + Tab - Like Alt-Tab but more visual

Windows Key + R - Run

Windows Key + F - Find/Search

Windows Key + L - Lock

Windows Key + E - My Computer

Somebody downloaded so much porn onto a computer in the lab that we were running out of room for the high-resolution scans the computer was supposed to be used for. We had students offloading their data until I figured out the problem by visualizing the HD with WinDirStat. Nope, it wasn't "too much scan data", it was countless gigs of German-language porn films and cracked software hidden in a sub-sub-sub-sub-directory.

Years later we still have no clue who was doing it... no Germans in our department. I really hope they weren't sitting in the scan room after hours jerking it, ugh.

Use WinDirStat to map your drive. It will tell you in an easy to read map what files are taking up space on your drive. Larger blocks take up more space, so look for those first. Your page file and hibernation file (hiberfil.sys) are usually the largest culprits, but there are likely to be some other stragglers.

That does seem like more than it should be. It could be a bug but I'd suggest using WinDirStat (https://windirstat.net). It will give you a file tree that shows you what's taking up the most space on your hard drive. That way you can find out for sure.

Assuming this is a Windows computer, you should run Disk Cleanup. It's available for Windows 7 - 10.

To get a graphical representation of what folders are consuming space on the drive, you can run WinDirStat.

I urge strong caution in deleting anything within the Windows directory or directly within any non-user or hidden folders unless directed to do so by an IT professional. There are tons of websites and forum posts saying "oh you can delete [xyz] it doesn't do anything"... when it does do things. Also, be cautious of running "cleaner" software. Even legimite, non-scam software - ccleaner probably being the best of the pack - often does little to help regain space and you can easily cause your computer to stop booting with an ill-informed click.

The only way I know of installing it is in the documents folder you mentioned, which is on your C drive.

Also, keep in mind many of these mods are available on the workshop, which uses Links instead of downloading to your harddrive. You should try those first.

If there is a mod in the archive which isn't on the workshop, you'll just need to clean out some room on your harddrive. I recommend the tool windirstat, it's very good at identifying where your storage space is getting used the most.

Control Panel > Programs > Uninstall programs?

You can also use WinDirStat to visualise disk usage per file and thus identify which particular files are taking up the most space.

Go into safe mode, delete enough to download and run this: https://windirstat.net/

Once you have an idea as to what is eating that space up investigate further. You might have a virus or malware that's forcing itself to replicate a file, or file type repeatedly.