• Something constantly eating up space on my C: drive. Can I check the latest created files?
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Well yeah, I got a big issue here. Lately, my C: drive has been filling up, and as small as it is, I only had about 7 or so gigabytes free after the system install. After a week or so, it chunked down to 2 gigabytes, but now, despite that I got two 1tB+2tB drives that I store everything else on, it randomly gets filled up, and after only an hour or so of literally doing nothing, I got less then 100 megabytes left free. Now, what I was wondering was how to actually troubleshoot and look at what it is that suddenly allocates that space? Thank you in advance for all the help you can provide me with.
Use SpaceSniffer to see what is taking up so much space.
I had a problem like that once.. turns out it's a good idea to turn off 1920x1080 HD fraps recording when you're not using it.. but I had fun looking what I'd been doing for the past week.
If Windows Vista/7: - Clear the contents of C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download (WU cache) - Disable hibernation. Open a command console and type "powercfg.exe /hibernate off" - Disable Superfetch in system services. - Shrink the size of Volume Shadow Copy or turn it off in system services. To shrink it, open a command console with administrative privileges and type: vssadmin resize shadowstorage /For=C: /On=C: /MaxSize=4GB - Run Disk Cleanup to remove things like Windows log files and error logs, which in some cases can suck up several gigabytes of disk space. - If you're on Vista, and just finished installing either SP1 or SP2, run "vsp1cln.exe" or "compcln.exe" from the command console to make them permanently installed, this will free up tons of space usually. Volume Shadow Copy by far uses the most disk space if you don't put it in check. I have a 100 GB Windows partition and before I limited it, it had sucked up 60 GB of space, making the partition completely full. Disabling hibernation will free as much disk space as you have RAM in the machine, though you shouldn't disable it if you have a laptop.
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