Thank you Scott! Hi Scott, I used to do all of what you suggested Works great on Vista x Excellent post! I would just like to add "Delete the thousands and thousand of old emails" to the list. I used to just let emails stick around, but having a better achiving strategy saves alot of space. Mike East. Hi, About WinDirStat, you say that it's "beautifully multi-threaded". Maybe I'm missing something, or I'm using an old version 1. Don't get me wrong, it is a great free application, but I wouldn't call it multi-threaded.
It does, actually, have multi-threaded parts, like the drive selection dialog. But the most important part, drive scanning, is single-threaded seen with Process Explorer. Just start a scan and click on a menu. The animations stop and so does the scanning process.
So it is not so beautifully multi-threaded. Anyway, great article. Very cool article, thanks : Random idea: a public wiki that any Microsoft employee can edit, with useful stuff like this.
I recovered about 6gb the other day. Well it actually happened about 3 months ago but I only realised last week. I deleted my pictures folder after thinking I had moved it to my new media drive.
I really dislike recovering files only to be told they're corrupted! Sorry, off topic. When I used to game, my screen shots and demos folder would fill up extremely quickly.. NET Files it can grow quite a lot if you are working on multiple projects and trying out different samples.
Deepesh Shah. If you care enough about this stuff, you can get a cleaner seperation of your data from your applications by doing an install with the user profile directory sitting on your data drives I'm anal enough that I reinstalled simply to get this structure going, but on the plus side, I know all my data is automatically on the data drive, and my C: drive disk usage remains fairly constant.
The KB article above refers to a servicing stack update which may or may not address this. This is not a problem for me since I always install a new OS release from scratch, but it may be for you. Leon Breedt. Question: Does the 'vsp1cln. Thanks for the tips, Scott :o. I love WinDirStat. Saved me 60 Gb as few months ago no idea what the 60gigs of crap actually were, but windows exploer couldn't see them.
I like the prompt you get after typing vsp1cln This operation will make Windows Vista Service Pack 1 permanent on this computer. Upon completion you will not be able to remove Windows Vista Service Pack 1 from this system. It sounds more user friendly.
I have run Disk Cleanup many times, but the disk keeps filling up, even after removing more files. I have a Toshiba satellite laptop computer. That does not seem to be a problem at this stage. Anyone have any suggestions as to how to stop growing my C drive? Thank You I am using McAfee virus protection. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread.
I have the same question Report abuse. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Your D: Partition is a partition set up on your computer by the Manufacturer in case of serious problems in the Vista operation system. Also, at Startup, there is an F Key option to reinstall vista from it, back to factory standards, in case of System crash.
There is not enough space to save the backup files. For average computer users who use a computer 8 hours a day, if you didn't do a junk files clean up like in a year, you'll pile up around 15GB of space. When users want to free up their disk space by deleting junk files, one knotty problem is the disk shows "low disk space" but has nothing to delete.
It's easy for some professions, such as designers or photographers, to create extremely large files. You don't need to delete all the large files one by one. Using the Large File Cleanup feature in EaseUS Todo PCTrans, it will completely scan your drive and return a result of files, with information of name, size, date created, and file location.
Personal files such as videos, music, photos, and documents can take up a lot of disk space on your computer. They are important, and usually for long-term preservation. Important files like those are seldom for use, so it's a good idea to transfer those files to an external hard drive or USB flash drive:. Cloud is also a good place to save large files, to reduce disk usage, at the same time, a very good backup location for your valuable data files.
Let's see how to free up low-space disk capacity:. So, when installing programs, customize another location instead of choosing the default C drive. As for the installed applications, you can transfer them to another local drive so as to free up the disk space.
The Windows recycle bin is for holding deleted files and folders for the long term if you need to recover deleted files someday after deletion. But the recycle bin folder with too many files would also take up plenty of disk space. Regularly cleaning up the recycle bin will help prevent the drive from filling up and running out of free space.
You can manually empty the Recycle Bin on your own or set an automatic Recycle Bin clean up a plan with the following steps:. Click "Change how we free up space automatically", set a plan "Every day", "Every week", "Every month", etc.
It's inevitable to produce duplicate files. Do not let many copies of the same file eat up your valuable hard drive space. As we know that, sometimes, malware or virus infection may also cause a situation that the system that warns low disk error but the disk actually has enough free space. To avoid this issue, we also suggest you run antivirus software to clear viruses and malware on your computer regularly. On this page, we explained what does Low Disk Space means and what will happen if you have this error popping up on your computer.
To get rid of this issue, you have two options: one is to extend the disk which is having low disk space. And the other option is to free up disk space.
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