Saving some space

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Hi guys,

I'm in the process of making some free space on my hard drive and I got thinking of a couple of things a techy pal mentioned to me a while back.

Firstly he mentioned some really good (freeware I think it was) that scans your drives for duplicate files and then removes them. Secondly he mentioned a command, in Windows 7 at least, that deletes remnants of data that are occupying disc space but not appearing as used space in Windows - I think this part takes a long time to perform :p

Any ideas? I've done all the obvious stuff; cleared my temp files, deleted old games/software etc, I just want to get back as much as I can now...
 
Definitely CCleaner for cleaning remnants / temp files and it also includes option of a duplicate file scan / report. Treesize Free is also good for finding what's taking up space and where.
 
First thing I always do is to disable hibernation from the command line:
Code:
powercfg /h off
Then run disk clean-up as adminstraor and clean whatever you want to from there.

If you have plenty of RAM (over 8GB) and don't play many games, consider reducing your pagefile's minimum and maximum. With 16GB of RAM, I set both of these to 1024MB and have yet to encounter any problems.

Also use CCleaner, but use the winapp2.ini with it. When you copy file file into CCleaner's program folder it will take about 10-30 seconds to process the ini file. But you are given a lot more cleaning options. I would very strongly recommend going down through the options and analysing them one by one to check you aren't deleting anything you might want to keep.
 
Admin command prompt

To see how much space System Restore is taking up on your drives:
vssadmin list shadowstorage

To set the maximum amount of space System Restore can use on drive C to 5GB:
vssadmin Resize ShadowStorage /For=C: /On=C: /maxsize=5GB

Of course, you can make /maxsize whatever you want.
 
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