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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.
Random guess from a programmer here, could be extremely wrong... Photoshop has also been around for much longer and has to run on actual hardware. Probably has a lot of legacy code and libraries and stuff to make it compatible with different systems.
Photopea runs entirely in browser... browser takes care of everything. How much does Chrome installer weight? If Photopea was standalone it would need to include that (or, more likely, a JS engine... like V8).
You can check by yourself though. Point this (win, mac) at your PS folder and look.
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.
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.
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
I've been using WinDirStat for years. Great free program.
There's also KDirStat for those running KDE (now QDirStat), and Disk Inventory X for Macs.
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)
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
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).
If you want to know your own disk space usage, try one of the following:
- Windows - WinDirStat: https://windirstat.net/wds_current_setup.exe
- OSX - Disk Inventory X: http://www.derlien.com/download.php?file=DiskInventoryX
- Linux - Kdirstat: apt-get install kdirstat
Here's my current development machine drive, getting pretty full - mostly through Windows Update (and yes, I've tried all the Disk Cleanup options).
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!
Allow me to introduce you to one of my favorite tools for Windows.
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.
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.
Have you tried running WinDirStat?
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
The first step is to use a disk space analyzer to see where the space is going. That'll get you a strong hint about the culprit.
Here are some pretty good ones. All free.
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:
Right-click "This PC" in your file explorer and click on "Properties"
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.
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.
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
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.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
Hey OP, it appears you have a question regarding the available free space or disk usage on your PC. The easiest way to determine where your space is being used with a 3rd party tool such as TreeSize Free, WizTree, or WinDirStat. Run the tool and have it scan your drive(s), it makes it easy to find the large files and folders. From there you can determine how to properly how to deal with them.
Here are some links!
TreeSize Free - https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9NBLGGH40881
WizTree Free - https://wiztreefree.com/download
WinDirStat - https://windirstat.net/download.html
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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.
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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.
For uninstalling programs, Revo Uninstaller seems to do a good job in streamlining the process of removing multiple programs and deleting their leftover files as well.
If my C drive is looking too full, I like to run WinDirStat. It will give you a graphical representation of a drive, makes it easy to delete large files or folders you forgot about, or see if there's any files leftover from uninstalled games.
Also, Shut Up Windows 10 has significantly cut down on the Windows 10 bs getting in the way, and seems good for privacy concerns.
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.
You can use WinDirStat to find out what files are taking up a lot of space.
The big squares in the search indicate the largest files.
For Disk Cleanup I'm pretty sure it won't delete files you need. Same goes for CCleaner. You can select which type of files you want to delete, read carefully and you will be fine.
So I had this issue myself and managed to fix both things but it was effort. So to fix the download, you have to actually search up Forza Horizon 5 in the search bar and not try and download it off the main page. Once you've found it in the search bar and started downloading, it should work fine but the lost storage is more difficult. Basically the XBOX app refuses to give you permission to see into or edit the folder where the games live so you can't just delete them from there without some work. The Folder itself is called "WindowsApps" and the game is stored in there in a folder called "MSIXVC". I used a program called WinDirStat to find it but like I said their locked too, so I had to use another program called DropPermission which gives you the permissions to do whatever you want with that folder and then I deleted the game in there.
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Hope this helps dude!
If you can't see it then how do you know it's taking up c drive space?
Download Windirstat and it will show you what's taking up the space. Most likely it's your temp folder getting clogged up.
Windows updates, temp files, game updates, log files, and several other things can install/write stuff into the c:\user\appdata folder and will cause this. It shouldn't be an issue unless you're filling the drive.
windirstat is a free program that will help you visualize what is taking up the space, when you notice a jump this might help you figure out what did it.
https://windirstat.net/download.html
This will tell you what is taking up all your space.
Disk Cleanup will probably save all your space taken by updates.
Maybe check pagefile.sys. If you are using too much virtual memory, using more memory than you actually have RAM, this can fill up pretty quick. I would also recommend downloading something like WinDirStat or TreeSize to find out what is taking up too much space
You could try an analyzing software to see where all your used space is allocated and what files are taking up most of your space. I use windirstat on my drives to find what is using up the most space. Hope this helps
If you have a windows PC, I'd suggest plugging the card into it and using a FLOSS tool called WinDirStat to see what files and folders are filling it up.
If you're on Linux, you can get the same info on the command line with 'du -h'
If you're on a Mac, yer on yer own.
To find a large file/folder you need something like this
P.S. I'n not quite sure how you can have a folder 10 times bigger of a drive size? Are you sure it isn't some cloud service's home folder (Goodle drive, OneDrive)?
Hey OP, it appears you have a question regarding the available free space or disk usage on your PC. The easiest way to determine where your space is being used with a 3rd party tool such as TreeSize Free, WizTree, or WinDirStat. Run the tool and have it scan your drive(s), it makes it easy to find the large files and folders. From there you can determine how to properly how to deal with them.
Here are some links!
TreeSize Free - https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9NBLGGH40881
WizTree Free - https://wiztreefree.com/download
WinDirStat - https://windirstat.net/download.html
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Okay, so disk D: isn't going to have any of your past user profiles or Windows information on it unless you used redirected folders. Have you look into using something like WinDirStat on that disk to see what the heck is eating up it's space? That may help you in tracking down and removing any orphaned files.
Assuming you actually need help...Use Windirstat to figure out where the biggest offenders are and start cleaning up stuff you don't need anymore. After that, run Duplicate File Finder to see if you have multiple copies of large files.
First thing to do is find out what's using up all your space. Tools like WinDirStat are useful for that. Look at the biggest files/folders first, and if you find something you can remove, remove it. If you find that most of the space is being used by files that you don't recognize, and/or if you're not sure whether or not you can safely delete something, report back here.
Use this
https://windirstat.net/
it is a visual representation of your files, you may find that you have huge files that you don't care about, instead of trying to delete smaller ones for no reason.
It also finds duplicate files, it happens to a lot of people to have duplicate files because they forgot.
Maybe audio language pack(s), I made the same mistake for other games. In Tinfoil you can delete these or uninstall and reinstall without the checkbox « DLC » and « updates ». Or maybe it kept the nsp file after installing it, you could check the files on the SD card on your computer (there are softwares for this like https://windirstat.net/index.html). Check for an eventual cache folder. That being said, the price for a 256G or even 512G is less than the price of 2 switch games and I have about 20 + retroarch with a lot of retro games. Maybe consider a SD upgrade if you want « big » games like this.
I would recommend you download WinDirStat. It's a program that will give you a better visual representation of your hard drive's space. You can navigate to folders easier and you'll be able to pin point what's taking space with ease.
Along with the other advice for cleaning up system cruft, I highly recommend WinDirStat. Run that as admin (so it can pick up the system files) and you'll be able to find what files are taking up what space, and you can move forward from there.
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/74949-move-location-downloads-folder-windows-10-a.html
Can do the same for Documents, Pictures, Videos, and Music.
If you still need more space, use TreeSizeFree or WinDirStat to see what's using the most space.
If you need to move a program, you will need to uninstall it and reinstall it to HD.
What are you using to calculate this 'apps and programs' usage?
Use TreeSizeFree or WinDirStat to tell you exactly what folders are taking up space.
J'imagine que ça soit être lié au fait que Windows n'analyse pas forcément en profondeur les dossiers quand tu passes simplement dessus (surtout que le dossier Utilisateur c'est un labyrinthe de sous dossier).
Tu peux utiliser quelque chose comme WinDirStat qui te permettra une analyse plus poussée et tu sauras alors précisément ce qui prend de la place.
> Bonjour héros national
Vous êtes trop bon, prince des anagrammes.
La partition de 100 Go, c'est sur un SSD ? Si oui, c'est pas super pour sa durée de vie qu'il soit rempli a fond en permanence. Je serais toi, je migrerai Windows vers le grand SSD de 1 To.
Pour savoir ce qui prends de la place, tu peux utiliser Windirstat qui va analyser tes dossier et afficher une "carte" de ton disque. Parfois t'as des fichiers temporaires qui s'accumulent et qui peuvent prendre de la place pour rien.
I would double check that you don't need the folder before perma-deleting it.
If you're sure that you want to get rid of it, download a program called WinDirStat. Select the folder in question, and shift Delete to perma-delete it.
Did you run Windows Disk Cleanup? Choose the option to clean system files.
Then run either WinDirStat or WizTree or TreeSize Free. This will show you where all your space is being used.
Be sure you know what you are deleting! You don't want to brick Windows.
get an app like windirstat there are plenty different apps like this some faster/better/etc.. but i know/trust this one.
probably temp, windows update, page/hyberfile, windows.old.....
https://windirstat.net/download.html
This extraordinarily useful program gives you visual and statistical information on how the space on your hard drive is being used allowing you to easily find and delete large useless files like these or simply see how much of your HD is being used by what.
I'd recommend you try running WinDirStat. It will scan your c drive and give you a very nice graphical interface to find out where all that storage is going to.
https://windirstat.net/download.html
My hunch is that it would be C:\windows\logs\ that is using up all the storage. Sometimes when Windows updates has been failing you can end up with a ton of CBS logs in that log folder and they eat up a lot of space. Run WinDirStat first though to see where all that data is. I'd say Windows folder should be under about 20GB
Download and run WinDirStat on both drives to better understand what is taking up space.
I would then try to run AutoCAD installer as Admin just in case it is not able to write for whatever reason.
Glad I could help, unfortunately this issue is a common thing at pre-installed PCs
Bonus tip:
You can use WinDirStat to detect files which clog your disk up (Everything outside your C:\windows folder should be fine to delete in case you don't need them anymore)
I use WinDirStat.
It is a free software that scans your disk and arranges the files in colorful tiles, with bigger tiles correlating to a larger sized file.
It is extremely useful, and a very fast program at that.
Like u/TheTechHobbit said, your space is probably being taken up by temporary files or cached files. There’s no reason for you to be stressed about these as they’ll delete themselves with time. If you’re really concerned you can use a program called WinDirStat that shows a visualization of everything on your hard drive so you can see what’s taking up the most space on your computer.
Windows is giving you an estimate, not an exact number, plus you probably have hidden files not displaying which might eat up a large chunk of that space. Use WinDirStat instead to see how much space is actually being used and by what.
Did you recently upgrade Windows?
C://windows.old may be the culprit it basically keeps all your previous data for a month incase you downgrade.
Otherwise WinDirStat is a program for telling the amount of space used by various folders.
Use a program like WizTree, WinDirStat, or TreeSize to find out where your space is being taken up. Run the program as administrator to ensure hidden folders are calculated.
I personally prefer WizTree because it's the quickest, though they all effectively do the same thing.
116 GB is quite small by today's standards, but it you're vigilant about it, it's not too hard to stay under the limit. There's likely some massive files sitting around taking up space you don't know about, or some applications you never use which are like 8 GB each. Download windirstat, and look for anything suspiciously big. I've used the Mac version of this and it's helped a lot for cleaning up space.
Try to use a program like WinDirStat to find out what takes up so much space and where it is located. If you find the old game files, you can use this wiki page on how to get Steam to recognize them again.
Use WinDirStat to see what file is taking up space.
Bigger the block bigger the size of it. Im pretty sure its an update temp file thats doing it. Or a Log file.
I've had the log file issue on other games.
What do you mean by this?
"We've identified a need to visualize a ton of directories"
Do you mean, size, space, layout, disk sector location, etc..
Meaning stuff like what this is providing...
... a free tool BTW
There are many other like this from over the years on different OS platforms. Like what is discussed here:
> https://superuser.com/questions/8248/how-can-i-visualize-the-file-system-usage-on-windows
(though I had to look at my history files to find this link 8^}):
There's a good chance most of the people on this subreddit have already seen this type of thing, but I'll give a quick explanation to those who haven't. (WinDirStat)[https://windirstat.net/] 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.
WinDirStat or SpaceSniffer (there are plenty of other apps) will show you visually which folders on your PC are the bigger. You can then manually check and see if they should be as big as they are.
- Use WinDirStat to find out what is taking up so much space on your SSD.
- Never fill up an SSD. You will start to suffer performance loss once you go over 80% capacity. Always leave about 20% free.
That being said, the SSD will be faster than the HDD. I always opt to install games to my HDD though as the loading times don't bother me enough to justify using my SSD.
I would assume your audio sync problem is a driver issue, so update those.
as for your space issue, if you want to see where your space is going then download windirstat https://windirstat.net/ and run that as admin. its probably a bunch of hidden update files.
you can use disk cleanup (builtin to windows) to clean those update files up.
i recently found a pretty cool program as well for dealing with windows driver store files called driver store explorer. just load it up and then click "old drivers" and see what it finds.
https://github.com/lostindark/DriverStoreExplorer
on a system the other day it saved me 20gb of space. but disk cleanup will most likely remove the old system image that a windows 10 major "update" leaves behind.