Storage overload issue

Question

Hello, everyone! I am facing unpleasant issue with permanent overloading of my storage capacity. The essence of the issue: periodically I make a clean up of my storage on laptop to get more free space (really need more free space as I run IDE, save some temporary files, save constant important files etc.). And I have noticed that in a while after every clean up procedure free space is significantly reduced – very unexpectedly. For instance, I made a clean up, after clean up free space is 4 GB, and then in 30 minutes I have checked a free space – and it has been reduced to 1 GB! But I am pretty certain that I didn’t download any heavyweight files (folders), cache can’t take so much space! I can’t understand what is really going on, and what kind of files consumes so much free space permanently. Honestly, I have Treesize app. To track storage loading precisely, but I can’ really understand, in which place I got unnecessary useless files (folders) what overload the storage. And as a result I can’ make proper clean up and get necessary free space (actually I need about 15-20 GB of free space, currently I have about 5 GB, and after awhile it is going to be reduced maybe to 1-2 GB again and again).

So, could you please help me to fix this issue and provide me with helpful advices how to keep free space on proper level permanently and how to discover and remove unnecessary files (folders). Thank you in advance.

PS. I use embed clean up system – but it helps in very low extent.

Answer 1

Hello,

Windows Update can leave behind a lot of temporary files. Run the Disk Cleanup tool, select your system drive, and click “Clean up system files” to remove old updates.

Manually check the Temp folder by typing %temp% in the Run dialog box (Win + R) and delete files that are no longer needed.

If you don’t use hibernation, you can disable it to save space equivalent to your RAM size. The paging file used for virtual memory can also be quite large.To disable hibernation, run Command Prompt as administrator and execute

powercfg.exe /hibernate off

I also suggest that you could use Treesize to Identify large files is which folders.

Best Regards,

Hania Lian

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