The question is how to I get to them and how do I shrink those files. It is clear that there are 400+GB of files in the System & Reserved portion of the C: drive. In fact, I find the Visual Studio files included in the 70GB that are visible.
I haven't been working much in Visual Studio in the last several months, and I certainly haven't created an additional 200GB+ of Visual Studio files. Therefore the only solution I could find was to replace the C: drive with a larger SSD. In my research, I found that Visual Studio would not run properly if any of the Visual Studio files were located anywhere other than the C: drive. At the time, I was working on a Visual Studio project and was accumulating a large amount of files on the C: drive.
The context menu on theHowever, I cant determine what this is and it keeps growing like a tapeworm.
Yes, File History is on, but the files are saved to a 1TB internal drive.Īs I indicated in my initial post, I had a similar issue where my 240GB SSD got unexpectedly filled up. WinDirStat shows 105GB of Yet you don't know how to run Windows Explorer to take a look at things for yourself? And, you don't know about NOT opening up your entire hard drive, registry included, to web sites such as the ones you mentioned? How many of your passwords and bank accounts have now been compromised? Think about it.See attached screen print. Visiting sites such as the ones you mentioned, which are riddled with pop-up ads, cookie dropers and who knows what else, means you've probably got a LOT of temporary files stored.Īlso, I find it odd that you seem to know all about VPN, hard drive scans, healthy drives, partitions, hard drive diagnostics, rootkits, defrag and restore points. The bits are on, that's all.īut, if you're concerned about space being used on your hard drive that you don't want to be used without your knowledge, I suggest you delete your temporary internet files.
So, your so called "scans" may simply be seeing the fact that there is something IN that space and it can't tell you what it is because it's not really accessable.
Do you understand that when files on your hard drive are "deleted", they're not really deleted? The space used by the file is simply marked as free to use again? Defrag doesn't change that. So, what exaclty is your question? Help with what?ĭon't you think it's strange that the so called "scans" report there is 25GB of "unknown" and yet Windows says there's 25GB of free space (exactly the same amount) and that only 23GB is used? How can there be 25GB of "unknown" if only 23GB is used? If there was 23GB used plus 25GB unknown, your hard drive would be completely full and Windows wouldn't be able to start.ĭon't place all of your faith in those so called "scans".
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