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How to recover free space on local disc (C:)?
Feb 23rd, 2018 at 8:34pm
 
I've nearly run out of space.


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It needs liposuction.

What's the best way of doing this?
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Reply #1 - Feb 23rd, 2018 at 8:44pm
 
First thing to try is to delete all temp files.

c:\ temp
c:\windows\temp

empty the rubbish bin.

Archive stuff off the drive if you can and delete what you don't need.

remove programs that you do not use.

etc.

Most of those cleaner programs do it for you as well.

ccleaner is one that comes to mind. backup before you try these and be carefull.
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Reply #2 - Feb 23rd, 2018 at 8:47pm
 
Set your email account to empty the trash on exit.
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Reply #3 - Feb 23rd, 2018 at 8:49pm
 
Lord Herbert wrote on Feb 23rd, 2018 at 8:34pm:
I've nearly run out of space.


http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4761/39540116035_827d33598d_b.jpg

It needs liposuction.

What's the best way of doing this?


Right click on c: in "my computer", properties, general, disk cleanup.

If that's not enough, move shyte off onto an external drive or cloud storage or buy a bigger hdd.

Edit: If you got a 2 or 3TB usb drive you could keep most of your porn on that and you could use it to back up that abysmally small 200G HDD.
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Reply #4 - Feb 23rd, 2018 at 9:03pm
 
Setanta wrote on Feb 23rd, 2018 at 8:49pm:
Lord Herbert wrote on Feb 23rd, 2018 at 8:34pm:
I've nearly run out of space.


http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4761/39540116035_827d33598d_b.jpg

It needs liposuction.

What's the best way of doing this?


Right click on c: in "my computer", properties, general, disk cleanup.

If that's not enough, move shyte off onto an external drive or cloud storage or buy a bigger hdd.

Edit: If you got a 2 or 3TB usb drive you could keep most of your porn on that and you could use it to back up that abysmally small 200G HDD.


Better to just stream pr0n and keep the HDD free .
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Reply #5 - Feb 23rd, 2018 at 9:04pm
 
Laptop or box?
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Reply #6 - Feb 23rd, 2018 at 11:14pm
 
Gordon wrote on Feb 23rd, 2018 at 9:04pm:
Laptop or box?


No self respecting desktop would have a 200G drive, obviously a laptop.
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Reply #7 - Feb 23rd, 2018 at 11:22pm
 
Put all the files you don't really need on a USB hard drive -
old photos etc.
I got one from Office Works for only $77 to back up my HDD.
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Reply #8 - Feb 24th, 2018 at 4:49am
 
Setanta wrote on Feb 23rd, 2018 at 8:49pm:
Lord Herbert wrote on Feb 23rd, 2018 at 8:34pm:
I've nearly run out of space.


http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4761/39540116035_827d33598d_b.jpg

It needs liposuction.

What's the best way of doing this?


Right click on c: in "my computer", properties, general, disk cleanup.

If that's not enough, move shyte off onto an external drive or cloud storage or buy a bigger hdd.

Edit: If you got a 2 or 3TB usb drive you could keep most of your porn on that and you could use it to back up that abysmally small 200G HDD.


yes, that works ok.
I also use Ccleaner, run it over the registry too.
Then a defragging.
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Reply #9 - Feb 24th, 2018 at 4:56am
 
Setanta wrote on Feb 23rd, 2018 at 8:49pm:
Lord Herbert wrote on Feb 23rd, 2018 at 8:34pm:
I've nearly run out of space.


http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4761/39540116035_827d33598d_b.jpg

It needs liposuction.

What's the best way of doing this?


Right click on c: in "my computer", properties, general, disk cleanup.

If that's not enough, move shyte off onto an external drive or cloud storage or buy a bigger hdd.

Edit: If you got a 2 or 3TB usb drive you could keep most of your porn on that and you could use it to back up that abysmally small 200G HDD.


Grin

The Porn File is actually very modest, boasting only a very few favourites after routine culling in order to save only the best for Art Appreciation purposes. In fact it's only 8.96MB.

I have a 1T extended hard drive that I've abandoned for months now because I could never retrieve the files back onto my PC's local disc. Acronis, Macrium, EasUS ... not worth a cracker when it has come to moving the clone back into the PC after a scrubbing of the C:. The fruitless hours I've spent trying to translate instructions into comprehensible English has left me stripped-and-gutted so far as wanting to go through the whole process again.

I had a full copy of my system and personal files transferred to the ext hdd with the help of Seagate, and then a few months later I needed to activate the Restore process ... in your dreams, Bucko!

I've got a second external hard drive, but the Backup & Restore features on these various Backup systems come across as gibberish to me.

I'm even toying with the idea of phoning up a local mobile computer service guy to come and do the honours. That's probably my best bet.

Meanwhile, thanks for the suggestions, doods.
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Reply #10 - Feb 25th, 2018 at 6:49am
 
Lord Herbert wrote on Feb 23rd, 2018 at 8:34pm:
I've nearly run out of space.


http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4761/39540116035_827d33598d_b.jpg

It needs liposuction.

What's the best way of doing this?


A common pattern I see with users is data hording people are too lazy to go through there data and work out what they need to keep or not. What you might want to invest in is both a Local NAS (look it up) and a Cloud solution and thing that is real important back up in both.

Windblows and associated applications often create a lot of temporary files that often they don't clean up. A simple way to reduce these is get a disc cleaning tool that does such, There are many around
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Reply #11 - Feb 25th, 2018 at 7:41am
 
Thanks RSF and you others.


First I need to work out what these are ...

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'system reserved (F:)'  What's this?

'Local Disc (I:)'  What's this?

I have my external drive turned on but it doesn't show here. Seagate 931GB capacity.

I'm going to go with using the default Windows 10 Pro backup facility. I've done it before but it didn't work. Perhaps this time ...

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Reply #12 - Feb 25th, 2018 at 8:35am
 
Use "treesizefree" to figure out what is clogging it up. This is an invaluable bit of software.
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Reply #13 - Feb 25th, 2018 at 6:00pm
 
Lord Herbert wrote on Feb 25th, 2018 at 7:41am:
Thanks RSF and you others.


First I need to work out what these are ...

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4675/40420007032_e107e2509e_b.jpg

'system reserved (F:)'  What's this?

'Local Disc (I:)'  What's this?

I have my external drive turned on but it doesn't show here. Seagate 931GB capacity.

I'm going to go with using the default Windows 10 Pro backup facility. I've done it before but it didn't work. Perhaps this time ...



System reserved is http://www.thewindowsclub.com/system-reserved-partition-windows

D: is to store data on and is empty, you can use it to copy stuff to, like your movies, pictures and porn or use partitioning software to double the size of C: by removing D: and expanding C:
You could also do something like move everything in "My Docs" to D: and mount d: on  "My Docs" folder in your user directory or something.
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Reply #14 - Mar 23rd, 2018 at 3:28am
 
Lord Herbert wrote on Feb 23rd, 2018 at 8:34pm:
I've nearly run out of space.


http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4761/39540116035_827d33598d_b.jpg

It needs liposuction.

What's the best way of doing this?


Delete your overloaded porn video files. Might save you a few gigabytes of space.
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