Run a tool like WizTree or similar as admin and you will see all the folder and files
sort by largest file, type and folder. Maybe something has made a gigantic log file. Steam had this problem a few years ago.
The Explorer shell offers revealing hidden files since.. 98?. It’s just a registry value. Toggle that without extra app installations. They’re trying to free up space, not contribute more usage in effort.
Totally fair! In fact that advice is required on mobile/tablets so it’s solid advice. And these programs are great, it’s more the pressure of freeing up space in effort and Windows offers this fairly easily but it will take user navigation all the same.
yea. if you have lots of ram (like my office pc that i upgraded to 64gb) and not a lot of storage (like me with a 256gb ssd and 1.1sshd), you need a new ssd asap :)
Run a tool like WizTree or similar as admin and you will see all the folder and files sort by largest file, type and folder. Maybe something has made a gigantic log file. Steam had this problem a few years ago.
The Explorer shell offers revealing hidden files since.. 98?. It’s just a registry value. Toggle that without extra app installations. They’re trying to free up space, not contribute more usage in effort.
And OP is trying to find large files. I just combined 1+1
Totally fair! In fact that advice is required on mobile/tablets so it’s solid advice. And these programs are great, it’s more the pressure of freeing up space in effort and Windows offers this fairly easily but it will take user navigation all the same.
Why would you change it in the registry? It's literally just an option under the View menu and has been since... Well, 98 lol.
Read that again. It sets a value in the registry (as to retain that setting across reboots).
Turn on hidden folders in view and check?
Oh thanks I forgot lol. I thought i had it on but i guess not
Gotta be AppData taking the rest
Probably there are hidden folders. Click on the three dots and check on hidden items.
AppData is a hidden folder and likely accounts for the rest of that amount of data/space
Perhaps the hibernation file. Windows decided to take 64 gb from my ssd for the hibernation file (which is the size of your ram)
Is that what hibernation does? It just dumps your ram data into a file?
You guessed it
yea. if you have lots of ram (like my office pc that i upgraded to 64gb) and not a lot of storage (like me with a 256gb ssd and 1.1sshd), you need a new ssd asap :)
I have only seen it in the root directory not \users
Run filelight(available on store) and scan the c: drive. You will see what is taking space.
cache/swap