help with disk space issue

[SpangB4b]

So I downloaded a pretty big file as a .zip file, and i extracted it. a few minutes later before it was done windows notified me saying i have a disk space issue and i was confused so i checked my space and i foudn that my C: drive was literally left with 20 Mbs of space and i didnt know what happened, then i came to realization that i extracted the big files in the wrong drive, the drive that didn't have enough space so then i tried the delete the files that i extracted (i extracted them in the desktop) and i found no files but it was still taking space. is there any way i can clean it? or delete it? please help.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Try a program like windirstat to see where the files are?

 

It probably extracts to a temp folder first, then copies to the drive.

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Try a program like windirstat to see where the files are?

 

It probably extracts to a temp folder first, then copies to the drive.

this, but i'd suggest just running disk cleanup first. if that gets rid of it, that's a quick fix, and it'll probably clean up some other unnecessary stuff too on the way.

[SpangB4b]

Just now, manikyath said:

this, but i'd suggest just running disk cleanup first. if that gets rid of it, that's a quick fix, and it'll probably clean up some other unnecessary stuff too on the way.

already doing this, all it found was 6GBs and it was all from the windows update trash files so it certainly did not find the files that i extracted 

[SpangB4b]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

Try a program like windirstat to see where the files are?

 

It probably extracts to a temp folder first, then copies to the drive.

i didn't have to use windirstat, i found the files in the temp folder. thanks for the help!