Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Why does my Windows folder use 75 GB?






My dad has asked me to have a look at his computer so see what is wrong it because he keeps running out of space on his C drive. I had a look and noticed that his C:\Windows folder is 75 GB large.


I've never seen one that big was wondering if there is a common cause for this.


He's running Windows XP Pro Service Pack 3. I had a look inside the directory and the only really big folder is System32 which is sitting at 2.16GB. I can't see where the 75GB figure is coming from.


Answer



Use Treesize free: http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/


It displays a tree of your disk with the size of each dir and its subdirectories.


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