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Win 7 Pro. All updates.
C:\ is full. Deleted obvious stuff but only got 200MB freed. Googled and got confused. Please a little spoon feeding would help me. WinSxS has 13G in the folder. I do not see any other large file areas taking up space. TreeSizeFree being used to look at C: Suggestions please. |
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On 07/06/2018 11:25 AM, freface wrote:
Win 7 Pro.ย* All updates. C:\ is full. Deleted obvious stuff but only got 200MB freed. Googled and got confused. Please a little spoon feeding would help me. WinSxS has 13G in the folder. I do not see any other large file areas taking up space. TreeSizeFree being used to look at C: Suggestions please. More Info. What is the original size of the Drive? Don't touch WinSxS. Yes it's big. Have you run the Windows disk cleanup as Admin? Not as user! Admin will allow you to delete previous installations and downloads (if you are sure you don't want to revert to a previous install that is). |
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On 06/07/2018 16:25, freface wrote:
Win 7 Pro. All updates. C:\ is full. Deleted obvious stuff but only got 200MB freed. what are these "obvious stuff"? Obvious to you may not necessarily free up enough disk space because you are a person of low intelligence. Have you deleted everything from the temp folder that is in your profile at this link: C:\Users\DummyFace\AppData\Local\Temp You need to change DummyFace to "freFace" or whatever turns you on. Googled and got confused. I am nt surprised. you don't have the necessary intelligence to use Windows System. Please a little spoon feeding would help me. How old are you? Arlen Holder, a known Paedophile can do it for you. He likes young boys. I do not see any other large file areas taking up space. No you can't see them because the Temp folder is hidden. Suggestions please. Sure there is another suggestion but try this first. The other solution will free up about 1GB of space but this has to wait as you like to be spoon fed. /--- This email has been checked for viruses by Windows Defender software. //https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/comprehensive-security/ -- With over 950 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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"freface" wrote| Win 7 Pro. All updates.
| | C:\ is full. | Deleted obvious stuff but only got 200MB freed. | Googled and got confused. | As Big Al said, it doesn't tell us much if you don't say how big it is. One option is to reinstall to get Winsxs back to 4-ish GB. Then make a disk image so you'll be able to do that more easily in the future. Following is a script I use. Paste it into Notepad, save as Folder Sizes.vbs, then run it. In the prompt type C:\. It will produce a file in the root of C drive showing folder sizes, starting with the biggest. That will help if there's something big that you don't know about. Backed up email, browser cache, and stored program files can all take up a lot of space if you don't clean them up. '---------- begin script ----------- '-- Note: Watch out for wordwrap. This script is '-- written to avoid long lines, so it should be OK. Dim FSO, s1, s2, TS, sDriv, APath(), ASize(), iCnt, iTotal, i2 s1 = "Enter path of folder to list sizes of all subfolders." s1 = s1 & " For a drive enter X:\, where X is the drive letter." sDriv = InputBox(s1, "List Folder Sizes") If Len(sDriv) 3 Then WScript.quit Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") On Error Resume Next iTotal = 500 ReDim APath(iTotal) ReDim ASize(iTotal) iCnt = 0 GetFolderSizes(sDriv) iCnt = iCnt - 1 ReDim Preserve ASize(iCnt) ReDim Preserve APath(iCnt) QuickSort ASize, APath, 0, 0 For i2 = iCnt to 0 step -1 s2 = s2 & APath(i2) & " -- " & CStr(ASize(i2)) & " MB" & vbCrLf Next s1 = "Sizes of folders in " & sDriv & vbCrLf s1 = s1 & "(Note: Sizes are in MB. A size of 0 indicates the" s1 = s1 & " size is between 0 and 1 MB.)" & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & s2 Set TS = FSO.CreateTextFile("C:\Folder Sizes" & left(sDriv, 1) & ".txt", True) TS.Write s2 TS.Close Set TS = Nothing MsgBox "List for " & sDriv & " is saved to C:\Folder Sizes.txt", 64 Sub GetFolderSizes(sPath) Dim oFol, oFols, oFol1, iSz, sList, s On Error Resume Next APath(iCnt) = sPath Set oFol = FSO.GetFolder(sPath) iSz = oFol.Size If iSz 1024 Then iSz = iSz / 1024: Else iSz = 0 If iSz 1024 Then iSz = iSz / 1024: Else iSz = 0 iSz = CInt(iSz) ASize(iCnt) = iSz iCnt = iCnt + 1 If iCnt + 10 iTotal Then iTotal = iTotal + 200 ReDim Preserve APath(iTotal) ReDim Preserve ASize(iTotal) End If Set oFols = oFol.SubFolders If oFols.count 0 Then For Each oFol1 in oFols GetFolderSizes(oFol1.Path) Next End If Set oFols = Nothing Set oFol = Nothing End Sub Sub QuickSort(AIn1, AIn2, LBeg, LEnd) Dim LBeg2, vMid, LEnd2, vSwap1, vSwap2 On Error Resume Next If (LEnd = 0) Then LEnd = UBound(AIn1) LBeg2 = LBeg LEnd2 = LEnd vMid = AIn1((LBeg + LEnd) \ 2) Do Do While AIn1(LBeg2) vMid And LBeg2 LEnd LBeg2 = LBeg2 + 1 Loop Do While vMid AIn1(LEnd2) And LEnd2 LBeg LEnd2 = LEnd2 - 1 Loop If LBeg2 = LEnd2 Then vSwap1 = AIn1(LBeg2) vSwap2 = AIn2(LBeg2) AIn1(LBeg2) = AIn1(LEnd2) AIn2(LBeg2) = AIn2(LEnd2) AIn1(LEnd2) = vSwap1 AIn2(LEnd2) = vSwap2 LBeg2 = LBeg2 + 1 LEnd2 = LEnd2 - 1 End If Loop Until LBeg2 LEnd2 If LBeg LEnd2 Then QuickSort AIn1, AIn2, LBeg, LEnd2 If LBeg2 LEnd Then QuickSort AIn1, AIn2, LBeg2, LEnd End Sub '--------end script --------------- |
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freface wrote:
Win 7 Pro. All updates. C:\ is full. Deleted obvious stuff but only got 200MB freed. Googled and got confused. Please a little spoon feeding would help me. WinSxS has 13G in the folder. I do not see any other large file areas taking up space. TreeSizeFree being used to look at C: Suggestions please. Install and run CCleaner. https://www.ccleaner.com/ Get it from the correct website, not a trojan spam site. |
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"freface" wrote
.... Another notable way to save a lot of space: Disable hibernation. Disable swap file or put one only on a non-C drive. Having done those things, hiberfil.sys and pagefile.sys can be deleted from C drive. |
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On Fri, 6 Jul 2018 20:47:02 +0100, ? Good Guy ?
wrote: On 06/07/2018 16:25, freface wrote: Win 7 Pro. All updates. C:\ is full. Deleted obvious stuff but only got 200MB freed. what are these "obvious stuff"? Obvious to you may not necessarily free up enough disk space because you are a person of low intelligence. Have you deleted everything from the temp folder that is in your profile at this link: C:\Users\DummyFace\AppData\Local\Temp You need to change DummyFace to "freFace" or whatever turns you on. Googled and got confused. I am nt surprised. you don't have the necessary intelligence to use Windows System. Please a little spoon feeding would help me. How old are you? Arlen Holder, a known Paedophile can do it for you. He likes young boys. I do not see any other large file areas taking up space. No you can't see them because the Temp folder is hidden. Suggestions please. Sure there is another suggestion but try this first. The other solution will free up about 1GB of space but this has to wait as you like to be spoon fed. format c: should work. |
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In message , Mayayana
writes: [] '---------- begin script ----------- '-- Note: Watch out for wordwrap. This script is '-- written to avoid long lines, so it should be OK. Dim FSO, s1, s2, TS, sDriv, APath(), ASize(), iCnt, iTotal, i2 s1 = "Enter path of folder to list sizes of all subfolders." s1 = s1 & " For a drive enter X:\, where X is the drive letter." sDriv = InputBox(s1, "List Folder Sizes") [rest snipped] Strange: it has come out OK in the above quote. But when I read the original post, I see: '---------- begin script ----------- '-- Note: Watch out for wordwrap. This script is '-- written to avoid long lines, so it should be OK. Dim FSO, s1, s2, TS, sDriv, APath(), ASize(), iCnt, iTotal, i2 s1 = "Enter path of folder to list sizes of all subfolders." s1 = s1 & " For a drive enter X:\, where X is the drive letter." sDriv = InputBox(s1, "List Folder Sizes") [rest snipped] In other words, the newlines after "is" and before the second "s1" and before "sDriv" have been swallowed somewhere (only to reappear when I quote!). -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Imagine a world with no hypothetical situations... |
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On 7/6/2018 11:21 PM, Lucifer Morningstar wrote:
try this first. The other solution will free up about 1GB of space but this has to wait as you like to be spoon fed. In addition to C:\Users\DummyFace\AppData\Local\Temp There are other temp directories you can clean c:/windows/Temp c:/windows/temp/softwaredistribution This directory can become large, especially if you have had installation failures. I have delete literally thousands of files. It is best to stop the update feature, but will work if you don't. If you don't, there are files in /software/datastore that can not be deleted. They are insignificant relative to the possible files in the other folders Clear the caches on your browsers. Delete some of the early restore points. Delete any *.tmp files Some programs backup parts of the installtion. Firefox will create bookmark file backups forever. You need to go into the about:config and limit it. browser.bookmarks.max_backups I assume there are others in firefox and other browsers All unused programs. -- 2018: The year we learn to play the great game of Euchre |
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On 7/7/2018 7:23 AM, Keith Nuttle wrote:
On 7/6/2018 11:21 PM, Lucifer Morningstar wrote: try this first.ย* The other solution will free up about 1GB of space but this has to wait as you like to be spoon fed. In addition to C:\Users\DummyFace\AppData\Local\Temp There are other temp directories you can clean c:/windows/Temp c:/windows/temp/softwaredistribution This directory can become large, especially if you have had installation failures.ย* I have delete literally thousands of files.ย* It is best to stop the update feature, but will work if you don't.ย* If you don't, there are files in /software/datastoreย* that can not be deleted.ย* They are insignificant relative to the possible files in the other folders Clear the caches on your browsers. Delete some of the early restore points. Delete any *.tmp files Some programs backup parts of the installtion.ย* Firefox will create bookmark file backups forever.ย* You need to go into the about:config and limit it.ย* browser.bookmarks.max_backups I assume there are others in firefox and other browsers All unused programs. When I wrote the above I assumed you have used the Disk Clean function from the Disk Property, and cleaned the disk and system files. If not this is where you should start -- 2018: The year we learn to play the great game of Euchre |
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On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 07:23:35 -0400, Keith Nuttle wrote:
In addition to C:\Users\DummyFace\AppData\Local\Temp There are other temp directories you can clean c:/windows/Temp c:/windows/temp/softwaredistribution My copy of Windows 7 Home Premium does not have this directory. I believe you meant "C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution" I have 881,877,855 bytes in 30 files and 32 dirs under this one. Are we sure that it's okay to delete all of them. This won't for example, cause Windows Update to take many hours next time I run it? -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://BrownMath.com/ http://OakRoadSystems.com/ Shikata ga nai... |
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"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote
| | s1 = "Enter path of folder to list sizes of all subfolders." s1 = s1 & " | For a drive enter X:\, where X is the drive letter." sDriv = | InputBox(s1, "List Folder Sizes") | [rest snipped] | | In other words, the newlines after "is" and before the second "s1" and | before "sDriv" have been swallowed somewhere (only to reappear when I | quote!). This is the same issue you were talking about last week, isn't it? I wonder if maybe Turnpike is just disallowing returns in email as being non- compliant, stripping them out, then formatting the lines to 76 characters or less. It's a bizarre behavior that ignores the rules of English composition, assuming that all written text in an email should be a single stream. How ironic that a Brit would be the one using such software. I try to structure scripts I post to not be corruptbile by email software, by making the lines short. In your case that doesn't seem to be possible. In case anyone can't get a usable script out of my post, I also have a copy in my "handy desktop scripts" download: https://www.jsware.net/jsware/scrfiles.php5#desk By sorting folder paths in terms of folder size it's easy to quickly see where the bulk is. Sometimes it's surprising. One friend had several GBs of email in Thunderbird, due to friends sending big pictures that she didn't delete. In another case, a blind friend was using special software to download audio books. I had specifically set it up to save the files on a data drive, but the software was poorly designed. It still saved a 2nd copy in the program's app data folder, anyway -- quickly filling C drive, so that the folder had to be purged periodically. |
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On 7/7/2018 8:44 AM, Stan Brown wrote:
On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 07:23:35 -0400, Keith Nuttle wrote: In addition to C:\Users\DummyFace\AppData\Local\Temp There are other temp directories you can clean c:/windows/Temp c:/windows/temp/softwaredistribution My copy of Windows 7 Home Premium does not have this directory. I believe you meant "C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution" I have 881,877,855 bytes in 30 files and 32 dirs under this one. Are we sure that it's okay to delete all of them. This won't for example, cause Windows Update to take many hours next time I run it? Yes I stated the wrong path. It is C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution Isn't copy paste wonderfull ;-) -- 2018: The year we learn to play the great game of Euchre |
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On 07/07/2018 08:44 AM, Stan Brown wrote:
On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 07:23:35 -0400, Keith Nuttle wrote: In addition to C:\Users\DummyFace\AppData\Local\Temp There are other temp directories you can clean c:/windows/Temp c:/windows/temp/softwaredistribution My copy of Windows 7 Home Premium does not have this directory. I believe you meant "C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution" I have 881,877,855 bytes in 30 files and 32 dirs under this one. Are we sure that it's okay to delete all of them. This won't for example, cause Windows Update to take many hours next time I run it? As for Software Distribution: There is a help file from MS that directed me to delete that folder when I had an error doing a upgrade to new build on the INsider preview version of 10. Then I was able to run the get updates and the upgrade worked perfect. So it should be okay. You sure there is close to a Tera Byte of data there? Wow. https://www.thewindowsclub.com/softw...der-in-windows |
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On 7/7/2018 9:47 AM, Big Al wrote:
On 07/07/2018 08:44 AM, Stan Brown wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 07:23:35 -0400, Keith Nuttle wrote: In addition to C:\Users\DummyFace\AppData\Local\Temp There are other temp directories you can clean c:/windows/Temp c:/windows/temp/softwaredistribution My copy of Windows 7 Home Premium does not have this directory.ย* I believe you meant "C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution" I have 881,877,855 bytes in 30 files and 32 dirs under this one. Are we sure that it's okay to delete all of them. This won't for example, cause Windows Update to take many hours next time I run it? As for Software Distribution:ย*ย* There is a help file from MS that directed me to delete that folder when I had an error doing a upgrade to new build on the INsider preview version of 10.ย*ย* Then I was able to run the get updates and the upgrade worked perfect. So it should be okay.ย* You sure there is close to a Tera Byte of data there?ย* Wow. https://www.thewindowsclub.com/softw...der-in-windows I am the one who suggested deleting files in SoftwareDistribution, and I can confirm that this folder can take up a lot of space. I never checked the exact number of bytes, but I know I have spent hours deleting the files. One tip for the person with the problem. Before you start deleting files in this directory, go into the properties of the Recycle bin properties and check "Don't move files to Recycle bin. Remove files immediately when deleted" This will make the process go smoothly. Otherwise the recycle bin will fill up and stall the operation, as it cleans itself out, or in some cases you have to clean the Recycle Bin manually. I routinely do this after a failed update and it never caused a problem. Just to be safe after the folder has been cleaned run, Update Troubleshooting. This will reestablish any pointers. -- 2018: The year we learn to play the great game of Euchre |
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