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Hi all

I am having problems cleaning up a PC. The SSD is 256gb and has about 1MB remaining space, and the programs list is very small. The only exceedingly large folder I can find is the C:\Windows folder which is 65GB. There is a "winsxs" folder which I can't seem to cleanup using disk cleanup which is huge at 15.0GB. I have tried to search online but they all recommend disk cleanup which doesn't work.

Any ideas?

Thanks
 
sideways14a said:
Thats not outrageously sized to be honest.
Run dirspace through your drive to find whats using the space
http://www.freshsoftware.com/dirspace/

But windows does get big, what with all its updates and stuff. Also any games you have will be taking up lots of space.
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Can't run it as there isn't enough disk space!

Games are not an issue it's a computer at my dad's office so only has MS office, couple of accountancy software packages <2GB and chrome and drivers
 
jsmoke said:
First link on google tells how to do it via cmd.
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Gives an error. "An error occurred accessing the temporary folder xxx"
Ensure that the path to the temporary folder exists and that you have Read/Write permissions on the folder
 
open an elevated command prompt (right click on the command prompt entry in the start menu and select open as administrator)
type chkdsk /f /r

It will want you to reboot to do the work, let it and then it will want to do a scandisk before windows starts - let it.
Once done see if its found any corruption, see if that helps.

If not then delete your internet cache which will free up a lot of space and use dirspace to find the rest.
 
It's windows 7 64bit sorry forget to mention. Latest update yeah

sideways14a said:
open an elevated command prompt (right click on the command prompt entry in the start menu and select open as administrator)
type chkdsk /f /r

It will want you to reboot to do the work, let it and then it will want to do a scandisk before windows starts - let it.
Once done see if its found any corruption, see if that helps.

If not then delete your internet cache which will free up a lot of space and use dirspace to find the rest.
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Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process.
 
Delete a few chunky files you don't need, maybe the Downloads folder has some. That will give your system a little space to breath while you figure out the problem. 1GB free would be ideal as a minimum.

+1 for deleting the SXS folder one way or another and old versions of Windows if present. Then get a visualising software like SequoiaView or maybe Dirspace
 
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Shivy011 said:
Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process.
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No it wont be able to run on an open file system, hence the /x and /f toggles which should force it to run on boot and clean things up. Try /f instead of x first, there is also /r which is useful

If you do this it may find a lot of space taken up with a broken filing system, almost all the home user pcs i see have some sort of issues like this.
You will need to do it from an elevated command prompt.

I fixed a laptop earlier for one of my staff, it had a crashing MS outlook, the OST file (a cache file outlook uses once its pulled data from exchange) was corrupt, deleting it didnt fix the problem as it should have. Outlook should just remake the file without corruption but it kept crashing.
So chkdsk /x /f /r was done as i suspected the filing system was corrupt and outlook kept making unreadable files. Fixed it no prob.

Wonkey ntfs volumes are a staple of windows, lots and lot of basic issues with 7/8 and 10 are down to this.
 
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LuckyBenski said:
Delete a few chinky files you do t need, maybe the Downloads folder has some. That will give your system a little space to breath whole you figure out the problem. 1GB free would be ideal as a minimum.

+1 for deleting the SXS folder one way or another and old versions of Windows if present. Then get a visualising software like SequoiaView or maybe Dirspace
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Racist!
 
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