Low Disk Space Issue On My Windows 7 Laptop

Query King | Sun, 25 Jun 2017 at 21:45 hours | Replies : 4 | Points : 100

Category : Windows 7


Hi All,

 

I am facing low disk space issue on my Windows 7 Laptop, Please suggest what are the files are SAFE to delete and how to check which folder is using maximum space. (ANY Free tool/utility). preferably from Microsoft.


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Hello Query King,

Please try the steps below to create space in your laptop..

 

§        Disk Cleanup – First of all you may run the Disk cleanup utility by going in the drive properties, and select the general tab. There you can select files to delete.

  1. Temporary Internet Files
  2. Recycle Bin
  3. System error memory dump
  4. Temporary files
  5. Windows update cleanup

 

§       %TEMP% Files - Even though Disk Cleanup is great, sometimes for whatever reason it doesn't always get stuff out of the TEMP folder. I recommend you try to delete the stuff in TEMP folder.

 

§          Remove Old Stuff - Go into Add/Remove Programs or Programs and Features. There's likely a bunch of old crap in there that's taking too much space. You may remove whatever is not required.

 

§        NTFS Compression - This is a great feature of NTFS that more people should use. If you've got a bunch of folders with old crap in them, but you don't want to delete them, compress. If you've got a folder that fills up with text files or other easily compressed and frequently access stuff, compress them. You mat same much space in drive by using this feature.

 

And foldersize is a good utility to check the size of folders in your laptop. Have a look on the below link..

 

https://sourceforge.net/projects/foldersize/

Hi,

Some steps you may take to reclaim disk space in Windows 7.

1) Run Disk Cleanup utility.

2) Uninstall programs that you do not use through the Control Panel.

3) Remove all but the most recent system restore point using the Disk Cleanup utility.

4) Remove unwanted junk files by emptying Recycle Bin and deleting cookies.

5) Disable Hibernation and delete Hiberfil.sys if the space problem is critical on your system partition. It's a hidden file on the root directory of your system drive. Open Control Panel. Type Hibernate in the search bar. Select turn Hibernate On / Off.

6) Compress the files that you don't access frequently using the zip or the rar formats or move them to another drive.

Note:These tools are most helpful in analysis disk space TreeSize or WinDirStat tool (For more detail please go through the below link)

 

Link: https://www.howtogeek.com/113012/10-best-free-tools-to-analyze-hard-drive-space-on-your-windows-pc/

Hi Query King,

 

You can try below Commands to Delete Temporary Files.

Go to Run -> Command Prompt and Type Below Commands.

@echo off
@IF EXIST C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\*.* DEL /f/s/q C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\*.* > NUL
@IF EXIST C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\*.* DEL /f/s/q C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\*.* > NUL
@IF EXIST C:\TEMP\*.* DEL /f/s/q C:\TEMP\*.* > NUL
@IF EXIST "C:\Users\%username%\temp" DEL /f/s/q "C:\Users\%username%\temp" > NUL
@IF EXIST "C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files" DEL /f/s/q "C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files" > NUL
@IF EXIST "C:\Users\%username%\Local Settings\temp" DEL /f/s/q "C:\Users\%username%\Local Settings\temp" > NUL

Hope it will help to delete temp files.

Hi Anuj,

 

Thanks, Folder-Size works like champ. It was page file which was occupying 24 GB.