TreeSize

In an effort to find all the stuff that is clogging up my main drive I came by this. It was really useful to find stuff in the AppData especially - I had many GBs being used by stuff that wasn't uninstalled fully.

After all my tidying up tonight I freed up about 40-50GBs of space.

https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free


Posted May 04, 2020, 20:50:50 PM	Logged

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I've used TreeSize too, pretty good.

I have a 50 GIG C: drive and I keep it around 20 GIG free, I know if it's less than that it needs a clean up.

Of course all my documents and work are on another drive and I have 3 more drives for games.


Posted May 04, 2020, 21:36:17 PM	Logged

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Talking of cleaning up the PC, this is a good tool for finding them files, it's safe to use and works well in windows 10 thumbsup

http://www.windowscleanuptool.com/index.html


Posted May 06, 2020, 12:10:42 PM	Logged

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I'm wary of using registry cleaners - I've borked my PC in the distant past by using those - the other tools might be useful though.


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Quote from: Freddy on May 07, 2020, 21:58:37 PM

I'm wary of using registry cleaners

Yeah me too, I don't go near that option but the software does clean up rubbish files very well. thumbsup

There are few more things you can do to get back a lot of space on C: drive, I do all of them.

Disable hibernation and delete the hiberfil.sys file.
https://www.lifewire.com/delete-hiberfil-sys-file-in-windows-4158131

Move the windows page file to another SSD
https://www.windowscrush.com/moving-windows-pagefile-to-another-drive.html

Clean up system files using the windows disk clean utility
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4026616/windows-10-disk-cleanup

Delete old windows up-date files from:
C:/ windows / SoftwareDistribution / Download.


Posted May 08, 2020, 09:17:03 AM Last Edit: May 08, 2020, 10:02:53 AM by Data	Logged

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I wondered about moving the page file, but it's probably not a problem for me and I don't want to mess it up.

I have about 100GB free on C: now so plenty of room.

I just noticed that the AI Suite has a windows cleaner, that seemed to work okay.