Where did the space on the C drive go in Windows 7?

Question

Hard disks

Where is the space on the C: drive going?
out of 58.5 GB, 4.5 GB is left.

And how to free it from the excess, except for what the CCleaner program shows?

CCleaner shows a maximum of 2.5 GB can be removed. But where did the rest of the space go?

SpaceSniffer shows:

Windows - 26.9 GB
Installer - 9.7 GB
system32 - 3.4
GB winsxs - 9.6 GB

Users - 11.4 GB

ProgramFiles - 7.6 GB

Answer 1

Well, go to the properties of drive C, free up space, additionally, remove updates from Windows that are no longer needed, after rebooting there will be a cleanup

Answer 2

Are there any other disks in the system?
Transfer to other drives
- user data (what is in Users)
- transfer the paging file
- clear updates (or rather update cache)
- reinstall large software that is rarely used. So that the working directory and installation location are moved to more free drives
. You can also add more RAM and clamp the size of the paging file (without moving it to other drives).
I would not say categorically that "Windows is a gorging system." according to my practice, the problem is in the frequent installation of software, storing everything on the desktop, unreasonable configuration of the swap file.

Answer 3

B %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Windows\WERand %AllUsersProfile%\Microsoft\Windows\WERusually a lot of garbage accumulates. All sorts of mini-dumps and information about crashed programs supposedly to be sent to Microsoft for analysis. They are not automatically deleted, as far as I know (but this is inaccurate). Although they are saved with the “compressed” attribute, they can accumulate over time and take up gigabytes.