I have been noticing recently, my C drive gets occupied fully even if there are no bigger programs installed.
Out of 150gb, after uninstalling few programs, the space left was 30gb. Day by day it started decreasing and i saw 20gb today.
I used the disk cleanup tool and it shows only 100mb after selecting all fields.
I was worried still that space was not freeing and ran this program WinDirStat. Here are the screenshots.
System Volume information folder occupies 75% of space - meaning 100gb.
There are lot of files which were around 1gb - 2gb and they are created from 2013.
Can somebody tell me why 100 gb? I read that this service is important but why is it taking this much of space..please help to remove these unwanted older files if any.
FYI, I tried below options after googling and also searching in this forum:
I have tried all these methods but still those files are existing. Please help
Out of 150gb, after uninstalling few programs, the space left was 30gb. Day by day it started decreasing and i saw 20gb today.
I used the disk cleanup tool and it shows only 100mb after selecting all fields.
I was worried still that space was not freeing and ran this program WinDirStat. Here are the screenshots.
System Volume information folder occupies 75% of space - meaning 100gb.
There are lot of files which were around 1gb - 2gb and they are created from 2013.
Can somebody tell me why 100 gb? I read that this service is important but why is it taking this much of space..please help to remove these unwanted older files if any.
FYI, I tried below options after googling and also searching in this forum:
- Used disk clean up tool and selected more options > system restore and shadow copies > delete
- Disabling and Enabling System restore
- Deleting shadow copies through VSSAdmin Delete Shadows command
- Virus scan in System Volume Information folder (after taking ownership of that folder) through Kaspersky and ESET SS
- Manual delete of the files.
- Selecting delete option in System Protection > Configure
- Changing maximum usage to some x%
I have tried all these methods but still those files are existing. Please help
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 7 / Windows 8
- Computer type
- Laptop