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Who ate space on drive C?
On August 31, 2014, I installed Windows 8.1 x64 on my laptop in EFI mode.
Initially, the size of the partition allocated for it was 40 gigabytes, but it, along with the software, quickly ate them up and using the minitool partition wizard to expand the space on C to 50 GB. In principle, everything worked fine, however, as the updates were installed, the free space on the C drive slowly decreased and now there are about 2.5 GB left, I ran the update cleanup several times using the script
net stop wuauserv
cd /d %windir%
rd /s SoftwareDistribution
Dism.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase
pause
net start wuauserv
pause
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I found a solution, it turned out that I installed and removed a lot of software through the Windows Installer (plus updates, the cache of which was already deleted via DISM), here is the cache of already unused files and took 10GB, I
found the utility and with its help I cleaned everything appnee.com/ wicleanup
After installing updates in the Windows folder, the winsxs folder (and possibly some others) is "bloated".
Ways to clean it are not always safe, so my choice is to expand the disk, especially with such volumes.
FreeManOfPeace : WIndows in the latest versions, among other things, in winsxs contains distributions for all available features, even disabled ones (feature on demand). in Windows 8+, they can be safely removed from the system - when you try to install a feature with missing files, it will be downloaded from windows update (or another place specified in the group policy)
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ hh8248...
Maybe in the end it's worth looking there too
However, initially, I suggest digging in the direction of "which folder inside windows weighs the most" and what can be done with it.
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