Windows 7 Taking too much HD space

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Calleja

Calleja

Ugh, this is ridiculous, months and months of using Win7 with no issue whatsoever and then a week or so ago it started warning em that I was running out of space in the hard drive.

I poked around and it seemed like the partition I created for Windows was indeed now too small. I turned off the paging file so it would stop using so much space, but that only slowed it down a day or two. After going back and forth and finally being able to expand the partition size I gave it an extra 3GB and moved on.

Now, 2 days alter, it's back to complaining about not having enough space. The partition is now 25 gigs. HOW CAN 25 GIGS NOT BE ENOUGH FOR A NON-FILES WINDOWS PARTITION!? I install everything on the bigger one! Why is it eating so much effing space!? How do I stop the hard drive monster!?
 
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Matt²

windows vista/7 use a base default of 15 gigs.. not sure what the extra 10 are for...
 
Calleja

Calleja

No, I'm not installing anything to E:, the windows partition, everything goes to C:, the other, bigger partition.

Using a software tool that tells you what's using the most space, it seems like the Windows folder us uging 9gigs on its own, with something like 4.5 gigs going to a winsxs folder, which, apparently, you can't delete anything from without causing issues.

ARGH, this thing is consuming my hard drive!!
 
Thread Necromancer

Thread Necromancer

I had a virus infection a little bit ago that seemed to be constantly writing data to my HDD and I never could pinpoint all of it's malicious stuff. In the end had no choice but to reformat (and go back to running Linux).

Not saying you have the same, but I know the virus I got was a particularly nasty bugger complete with key loggers, malware, trojans and rootkits and I never could track down every point of infection. Somewhere it was reinstalling itself with every reboot despite all my efforts to kill it.
 
Calleja

Calleja

Aight, hylians Disk Space Fan was, apparently, much better than the similar Tree Size I had used. I had a 9+ GB Temp folder. There were .tmp files in excess of 800MB each, many of them.

WTF?

How do I stop the temp folder from growing so effing much?
 
Thread Necromancer

Thread Necromancer

There is, imo, zero reason to have temp files of that size and I would possibly consider this a warning sign of a larger problem.

I don't know of a way to only permit the temp folder to maintain a size <X. But if you've cleared or temp files and in a day or two notice that they are growing again... well, I wouldn't go doing any online banking or such between now and then.
 
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Matt²

you can delete the files in the "temp" and "%temp%" directories but beware it will probably clear your internet history as well.
 
DarkAudit

DarkAudit

How much space are you allowing for System Restore? I'm willing to bet you're issue is with recovery files filling up more and more of your HD each night.
 
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Matt²

NEVER turn off system restore! NEVER!
You get some little goof someday that only a system restore fixes, and you turn it off, and WHAM... you gotta reinstall Windows.
I mean if you gotta turn it off for a little while and clear some memory or a virus, fine, but turn it back ON when you're done!
/rant.
 
Calleja

Calleja

I ALWAYS turn system restore off in ALL my windows installations... because I have a better safeguard that doesn't eat up resources like it's Galactus... the partition system. For me re-installing windows is no problem, everything is safe in the "permanent" partition, while the Windows partition gets a re-formatting at least once a year or so.

Nothing better than a fresh installation of windows, am I right?
 
DarkAudit

DarkAudit

Matt² said:
NEVER turn off system restore! NEVER!
You get some little goof someday that only a system restore fixes, and you turn it off, and WHAM... you gotta reinstall Windows.
I mean if you gotta turn it off for a little while and clear some memory or a virus, fine, but turn it back ON when you're done!
/rant.
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I wasn't suggesting turning it off, but you also don't need to give it the 20-30 gigs of space the default settings want.
 
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Matt²

meh, sorry, wasn't meaning to go off on anyone in particular.. just one of my goats escaped.
bleeeeah! =D
 
Seraphyn

Seraphyn

The Mex said:
Aight, hylians Disk Space Fan was, apparently, much better than the similar Tree Size I had used. I had a 9+ GB Temp folder. There were .tmp files in excess of 800MB each, many of them.

WTF?

How do I stop the temp folder from growing so effing much?
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Don't install anything, ever again. Seriously though, just clean the temp files every once and a while.
 
Calleja

Calleja

What dumbfounds me is why the "disk clean" windows feature that kept popping up every 10 seconds saying I didn't have enough space so I should run didn't clean the temp folder like it said it was. It pretty much just emptied the recycle bin and deleted cookies. Gorram it.
 
CrimsonSoul

CrimsonSoul

The Mex said:
What dumbfounds me is why the "disk clean" windows feature that kept popping up every 10 seconds saying I didn't have enough space so I should run didn't clean the temp folder like it said it was. It pretty much just emptied the recycle bin and deleted cookies. Gorram it.
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HAHA! Windows hates Mexicans!
 
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Matt²

Ccleaner will clean your windows... but if they're already broken, it won't necessarily fix any windows. ;)
 
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