Questions tagged [windirstat]
WinDirStat (WDS) is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Windows
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Windows 11: Find and Grant read Permission for Unreadable files
I'm using WinDirStat to see how my hard drive is being used. I see 9.2 GB marked as <Unknown>. I'm assuming these are files which my Windows user can't read. I'm an administrator, and the hard ...
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What is this large system volume information file?
I'm sure this is a repeat of a question someone has asked somewhere, but I couldn't find it.
There is just one file in my system system volume information folder that is taking up literally two-thirds ...
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Compression Enabled, smaller IS expected, BUT 3,000 files, Size=25GB but Size on Disk only 5MB?
I've looked & keep finding lots of articles telling me what I already know.
I know the file size difference is because I have Compress contents to save disk space enabled.
I know about the ...
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Occupied HDD space not correlating in Windows 10
I have a 1-TB HDD and I decided to delete all the junk files after realizing there were only a couple of GBs of space left:
I used WinDirStat, to list all the folders and files in the directory and ...
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WinDirStat freezes whenever I click the "Clean Up" button in the menu bar
This happens every time on my desktop, and has never happened on my laptop. I tried reinstalling and restarting multiple times. My best guess is there's a problem with my system configuration/registry/...
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Drive filling up with system and reserved files [duplicate]
I had this problem a few weeks ago where my C: drive would fill up over night. When I came to work in the morning my drive would be full, after reboot I'd about 200GB free. I tried cleaning up with ...
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Can I delete files from C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Local\PeerDistRepub\Store\0?
C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Local\PeerDistRepub\Store\0
This directory contains many, many .dat files which use ~33% of my 500GB disk space. I found this using WinDirStat.
The ...
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Windows shows 150GB less than Chkdsk
Windows is reporting 199GB free when CHKDSK reports ~350GB free. The drive in question is a 1TB SSD that was my former Windows drive. I have run disk check and checked for shadows. How can I reclaim ...
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Windirstat says my SSD is smaller than File Explorer
I have an (advertised) 256gb SSD on my laptop, which shows up as 222gb on windows file explorer. Recently, I noticed that 50gb was just missing even though nothing could have been taking up that space....
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How to exclude folders from WinDirStat scan?
During the lifetime of a typical computer, many folders are static in their contents. For example, a program like Matlab, loaded with some toolboxes, is installed once and seldom changes ever after. ...
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Disc space doesn't add up to what "Storage" states in Windows 10
I am trying to clear some storage on my computer but I am unable to find out where or how to clear it. On the generic Windows 10 Storage page, it states that I have used 913GB out of 914GB for "This ...
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Unknown missing space on C drive
I am running Win 10 Pro and have a Samsung SSD850EVO 500GB drive as my C drive. My used space normally shows 107GB however for some reason it now shows used space as 240GB. I have run Windirstat and a ...
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How can I get read access to *all* files on my harddisk? [duplicate]
Recently I had a full harddisk and needed to delete some files. I used WinDirStat to see where the big files are.
Afterwards I remembered that I had a 5GB Microsoft SQL Server database backup ...
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My PC has "invisible" files that take up 100GB+ of space [duplicate]
I have a Lenovo T460 (with a 256GB SSD), and it is almost full even though I only have around 120GB of files on it. I tried using WinDirStat, but it only showed the files that I already knew about, ...
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how setup windirstat to show folder size in Gb?
I have installed windirstat and it show folder size in Kb. Is there a way to setuop it for showing size in Gb?
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