patseguin Global Moderator Posted February 4, 2013 Global Moderator Share Posted February 4, 2013 My C drive is a 256GB SSD and it is showing almost full which is uncanny for only having Windows and a couple apps. I had thought I might have accidentally extracted a couple MKV movie files to it but a search found nothing. My user profile directory is 80GB but looking inside I can't find any large files. Is there a tool to do this? On a side note, a few months ago I installed Ubuntu to dual boot and might have used my C drive? How can I confirm this and remove it short of wiping the drive which is a last resort? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Som Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 what size is your windows directory? Having any problems with updates lately? oh check the size of your pagefile.sys file too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obi-Wan Kenobi Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 WinDirStat is what I use to find those huge files. http://windirstat.info/ goretsky 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sc302 Veteran Posted February 4, 2013 Veteran Share Posted February 4, 2013 treesize free http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/ goretsky and stoo2000 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason S. Global Moderator Posted February 4, 2013 Global Moderator Share Posted February 4, 2013 you'll have to enable hidden files/folders so you can see if any of those are really big - perhaps appdata or something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 I use Sequoia View for jobs like this http://w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/onderzoek_informatica/visualization/sequoiaview// My first thought would be the page file or the hibernation file, if you have it enabled. goretsky 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George P Global Moderator Posted February 4, 2013 Global Moderator Share Posted February 4, 2013 People talk about the pagefile but unless he's got lots of ram it won't be that big. Also if you do have a lot of ram (my desktop has 16gigs) you can go in and make your pagefile smaller, you'll just use more ram etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patseguin Global Moderator Posted February 4, 2013 Author Global Moderator Share Posted February 4, 2013 My Windows folder is 21.5GB in size. My RAM is 24GB. I'll try one of the tools you guys listed. I'll look into how to make the pagefile smaller too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goretsky Supervisor Posted February 5, 2013 Supervisor Share Posted February 5, 2013 Hello, If you are not using hibernation on your computer, turning that feature off will save you the disk space used by a HIBERFIL.SYS file, which typically the same size as your RAM. To do so, open an elevated Command Prompt (filename: CMD.EXE) and issue a "POWER.CFG /H OFF" command. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky yxz 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrp04 Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 Yes with 24GB RAM turn off hibernation and manually set your pagefile to 4GB. This should save you 44GB or so. goretsky and George P 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George P Global Moderator Posted February 5, 2013 Global Moderator Share Posted February 5, 2013 Yes with 24GB RAM turn off hibernation and manually set your pagefile to 4GB. This should save you 44GB or so. Yeah, there's no real reason to keep a big pagefile if you have so much ram. I haven't gotten the chance to check mine, I have 16GB of ram, but a 4Gb file sounds good, you'll just keep more things in ram than before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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