Windows 7 is hungry for my C:\ partition

[barbarbarbarbar]

And the bitch just keeps on eating and eating.I don't put anything there , just the essentials . Getting rid of the system restore files just got me some extra 300 MB . Hibernation was already off ( when i turned it off like a month ago , it helped clear 1.6 GB , so i thought that my troubles were over ) Help guys ! ! !

 

[Barney Fife]

How much space are we talking about? And do you have Window's backup on, or is it off?

 

[15357]

Come to think of it, I had 300GB of space left a few days ago, and now it's like 287GB.

I don't recall installing anything...

 

[Barney Fife]

Come to think of it, I had 300GB of space left a few days ago, and now it's like 287GB.

I don't recall installing anything...

And you didn't backup anything (System Backup isn't turned on)?

 

[15357]

And you didn't backup anything (System Backup isn't turned on)?

Of course not. I am an avid believer in hardcore OS usage - never backup anything important.

 

[Barney Fife]

lol OK. Sarcasm Ellert!!!
DL Treesize (Freeware) Google it first then DL it from Cnet (Others may not be legitimate sites) install, launch and see folders that consume most space.
What I like to share with you now is that: If you right-click Windows folder your OS takes about 14-15GB of space simply because of these three folder a) System32. b) SysWow64. c) Winsxs. Those three combined will occupy close to 10GB of space. The Windows virtual space also grows periodically with system file, if you have hibernation system on it will also contribute to the robbery.
So download the software (It is great Sftwr BTW) and post back.

Good Luck.

 

[Vegeta897]

You're a 40 year old American and you don't know how to spell "alert"?

 

[Barney Fife]

Vegeta lol. I guess I can have that second cup now.

 

[Vegeta897]

i troll u so hard

 

[barbarbarbarbar]

How much space are we talking about? And do you have Window's backup on, or is it off?

Where can i check if it's on or not ?

 

[Barney Fife]

i troll u so hard

I Know you Somniloquy "Death To America" Vegeta.

Where can i check if it's on or not ?

It doesn't set itself to auto-backup; it is a user-selected. If you did not turn System backup on, then it is probably turned off. DL that software (Treesize) and see what is going on with HDD.

Or, to double-check, press: Star, Control Panel, Backup And Restore. On the lower left-hand side, press: Action Center, Drop down "Maintenance" look to the roght of where it says "Backup" if "Currently Not Monitored" is chosen; it is turned off. There must be a shortcut, but that's how I know to get there.

Good Luck.

 

[Vegeta897]

That is an impressive word. Somniloquy.

 

[lefty]

is that like giving a speech while sleeping?

 

[Barney Fife]

lol Yeah Lefty got it. It is sleep-talking like Vegeta.

 

[The Brick]

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

Worked great for me multiple times. Just burn it to a disk and boot from it, can't be easier after that. Just takes a long while to move partitions.

 

[Barney Fife]

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

Worked great for me multiple times. Just burn it to a disk and boot from it, can't be easier after that. Just takes a long while to move partitions.

Wha! Wha! Whaaat!

Come again. What does Gnome got to do with Window 7? The man is complaining because his C drive space gets shrinking though he doesn't install new software.

Man! I'm learning new stuff everyday.

 

[15357]

Ok, I think I found the cause of my problem: my download manager was dling the same files over and over again. D:

 

[Barney Fife]

Yeah, that folder can grow big.

 

[The Brick]

Wha! Wha! Whaaat!

Come again. What does Gnome got to do with Window 7? The man is complaining because his C drive space gets shrinking though he doesn't install new software.

Man! I'm learning new stuff everyday.

Right, so I was thinking there was a problem of running out of space. G-parted lets you resize (boot)partitions easily. Helped me a bunch of time in the past with the same problem.

 

[barbarbarbarbar]

Right, so I was thinking there was a problem of running out of space. G-parted lets you resize (boot)partitions easily. Helped me a bunch of time in the past with the same problem.

So if i have a little extra space on D:\ i can "transfer" some of it onto C:\ ?

 

[VirusType2]

If they are physically the same hard drive. In other words, as long as C and D are partitions of the same harddrive.

 

[barbarbarbarbar]

If they are physically the same hard drive. In other words, as long as C and D are partitions of the same harddrive.

DOWNLOADING !!!

 

[Barney Fife]

Right, so I was thinking there was a problem of running out of space. G-parted lets you resize (boot)partitions easily. Helped me a bunch of time in the past with the same problem.

Right. Thanks for the info. For me, that is new.

As far as saving space goes, this is what I have done so far to keep HDD managed.
In Win7, there are 9 things that will consume/reserve large amount of space, that I know so far:
A) AppData.
B) Winsxs.
C) SysWOW64.
D) System32.
E) Win Installer
F) Downloads
G) Hibernation
H) Win Virtual Memory
I) Recycle Bin

AppData (Which is hidden), Winsxs, SysWOW64, System32 and Win installer are the untouchables, so I left them alone.
The other 4: Downloads, Hibernation, Win VM, and Recycle Bin are manageable, and you can save large amount of space.

Downloads: Apart from C:/Windows/Downloaded Files, which can be cleaned by way of “Disk Cleanup” you also got C:/users/Computername/Downloads to deal with. This folder gets larger every time you download a program. I had to manually clean it; saved me almost 5GB+.

Hibernation: Hibernation, which is ON by default isn't as same as “Sleep,” which I always use whenever I'm walking away from my desk, and I don't want others peeping at my work, so disabling it saved me 7GB+.

Windows Virtual Memory: Ever since 2GB of memory became a thing of the past, Windows VM is useless to those of us with more than 2GB memory, so Microsoft included, enabled, and system managed (Unless otherwise,) in Win7, for those with less than 2GB. If you disable it, IMO, system boots faster, because no HDD is dealt with for memory, and I saved 5GB+.

Recycle Bin: Is System managed, and reserves whopping 5GB+ for it's amusement park. I had to shrink it down to 1GB, saving 4GB+.

Overall, what use to be 115GB+ of used space, is now down to 93GB+ of used space.

Good Luck.