Too much space occupied on C drive
I've got a Yoga 2 pro and after viewing the amount of space being allocated to apps, photos, videos, programs, etc. there seems to be about 100GB of space being occupied by something.
I understand that the OS occupies space but 100gigs?
The D drive has only 4GB total
Can someone help me understand what is using up so much space and possibly a way to free some up?
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To investigate disk space usage download, install and run Treesize (freeware)
as Administrator.
http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/
Place a shortcut to Treesize on your Desktop, right click the icon and select Run as Administrator to open Treesize. You need to run as Administrator to see
all files.
Information on Treesize
http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/
When you open Treesize select Scan from the Menu and you will see a list of drives. Click on C and it will generate a list of Folders.
Post the names and the sizes of the 6 largest folders and the total at the top of the list.
Hope this helps, Gerry
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> I can control the space by adding a height tag in this
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> frameborder="0" width="170" scrolling=no
style="border:0px; font:Verdana,
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color:#666666"></iframe>
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OS or their
> browser,
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form and how I could
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