Questions tagged [disk-space]
The amount of computer storage space on devices, such as hard drive, floppy or USB flash drive.
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Windows 10 Huge windows PageFile, how to limited it
My Windows PC alerted me with low harddisc space, and when I scan hard drives with TreeSize tool, I realize that windows keeps a huge pagefile.sys file, that is 18.2 GB and keep growing.
Why is this ...
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running low on disk space
I am using Windows 7 installed on a 120 Gb SSD.
Today I have noticed, that there is only 2GB of free space left on it, so I started to clean things up.
I realized that only my user profile takes ...
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How to clean Windows\Installer folder in Windows 10? [duplicate]
My C:\Windows\Installer folder is huge: 14 GB. My understanding is that this is where failed updates go to die, and it should not be this big. What is the correct way to clean it on Windows 10?
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Windows 8 disk space usage vs Windows 7
The official Microsoft Windows 8 (64 bit) disk space requirements are the same as Windows 7: 20 GB.
In actual practice, how does Win8's disk space usage compare to Win7's? Specifically, how does disk ...
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What if I checked the box "Compress this drive to save disk space" on an SSD?
I was wondering how it would effect an SSD if this was checked:
I was just curious whether it would save my SSD disk space?
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How can I disable the low disk space warning on a single drive in Windows 8?
Id like to disable the low disk space warning, ideally for a single drive in Windows 8.
My gut feeling is that is it will be an all or nothing change.
Any ideas?
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My C Drive is full without reason [duplicate]
My C drive (SSD, the drive on which I installed the OS) recently shows that it's almost full.
(Japanese text says: empty space is 6.98 GB out of 105 GB.)
But when I checked by computing all the ...
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Is there a way for Windows 7 to show remaining disk space in the status bar?
This is really driving me nuts. I do a lot of moving media files to and from USB drives, and I am constantly looking to the status bar to see how much remaining space I have on a drive. It's quick, ...
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Is there a Windows command-line utility to list largest files exceeding specific size in sub-directories?
Would like to be able to find full paths of files in a directory tree that exceed a specific size (say 10MB).
Currently aware of Microsoft's Diruse (part of Windows XP Service Pack 2 Support Tools) ...
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Hibernate is disabled, hiberfil.sys gets recreated at each boot
I have Windows 7 running on a small (40GB) partition, with 4GB ram. This means that the hiberfil.sys file created by Hibernate takes up a significant portion of the available diskspace. I would like ...
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What is the approximate installation size of a "clean" Windows 10 Upgrade, post install and cleanup?
I'm interested in the installation size of Windows 10 when it has been installed on an existing, clean, Windows 7 or Windows 8 installation. By "clean" I mean only a standard non-OEM OS and critical ...
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Display filesystem's free space available to the root user
By default, Linux reserves some fraction of a filesystem for the root user, at least on ext4 (to prevent ordinary users from filling the drive completely and crashing the system, and to reduce ...
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Remove System Volume information folder from external drive
I have currently found out that System Volume information folder on my external HDD takes around 124GB of space. Hence I decided to delete it to free up some additional space. But for now everything ...
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Windows 7 : Disk space : windirstat shows 88 GBs used : Windows shows 143 GBs used
The total disk space shown by the "scanner" program is 232GB and the innermost circle shows used space is 143GB.
When I check with WinDirStat the total files used are 88GB.
Does this mean that the ...
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slim down disk space usage windows 7
How can I reduce the amount of hard drive space Windows 7 uses? I've got my Win7 cramped into a 10GB virtual machine, and with Office installed, I’m running out of space. The short answer 'use a ...
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