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So I built my computer on Sunday, downloaded a few games etc however I look at my storage and it says 580GB of free space left when I have 931GB of usable space, so I bring up the properties of all the folders in C:\ and it on totals to around 140GB, where is all this other data from?

I have Windows 7 Ultimate SP1

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Download windirstat and find out where the space is being taken

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My first guess is system restore points.

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This happened to me one time.

I used windirstat to find the file, and it ended up being a 500gb text file.

 

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So I used WinDirStat and it proved useless

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Any more help?

Did you run it as an admin?

I see 190 gigs there. 

 

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I personally use SpaceSniffer.  It's always helped me eliminate unnecessary files. You may also want to run a program like KingSoftPC Doctor or CCleaner to clean up old installation files, old restore points, etc etc.

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This happened to me one time.

I used windirstat to find the file, and it ended up being a 500gb text file.

How in the hell did you have a 500GB text file? What was in it?

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Did you run it as an admin?

I see 190 gigs there. 

I just ran it as Admin and it came out the same

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First things first do this.

Change power settings to Performance, open CMD(Admin) and type powercfg -h off.

Then go to system and advanced settings and set the page file to 0. Should free up a lot of space.

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First things first do this.

Change power settings to Performance, open CMD(Admin) and type powercfg -h off.

Then go to system and advanced settings and set the page file to 0. Should free up a lot of space.

Thats disabling hibernate saved settings right? Its temporary memory?

Just asking from curiosity

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My first guess is system restore points.

Indeed i think it is backups.

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Thats disabling hibernate saved settings right? Its temporary memory?

Just asking from curiosity

That's exactly what it is, uses uneeded space.

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Thats disabling hibernate saved settings right? Its temporary memory?

Just asking from curiosity

that's right, you're disabling hibernate save settings.
 

 

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So I built my computer on Sunday, downloaded a few games etc however I look at my storage and it says 580GB of free space left when I have 931GB of usable space, so I bring up the properties of all the folders in C:\ and it on totals to around 140GB, where is all this other data from?
I have Windows 7 Ultimate SP1

my guess would also be the Pagefile.sys and Hiberfill.sys files both of these files are just as big as the amount of system memory since it is basically a copy of that.

you can only see them when you un check the "hide protected system files"(or along the lines of that) in the folder option menu. and check the "show hidden files option".

getting rid of these files is not as easy as just deleting them, windows won't let you. the proper way to do so is how ErickS89 explained.

 

First things first do this.

Change power settings to Performance, open CMD(Admin) and type powercfg -h off.

Then go to system and advanced settings and set the page file to 0. Should free up a lot of space.

this won't hurt performance however you will lose all your unsaved data when a windows crash (unsaved office document, unsaved photoshop project etc...) occurs since that is what is written to pagefile.sys.

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Had a similar problem a week ago, made a thread about it too. Turns out system restore was taking a lot of space, and programs like SpaceSnifer or WinDirStat don't detect it.

So try this:
 

 

Go to system properties , system protection, click on your drive, configure , turn off system protection, delete all restore points, and see how much is freed.

 

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Hey

So I built my computer on Sunday, downloaded a few games etc however I look at my storage and it says 580GB of free space left when I have 931GB of usable space, so I bring up the properties of all the folders in C:\ and it on totals to around 140GB, where is all this other data from?

I have Windows 7 Ultimate SP1

Try deleting all %temp%

Go to windows taskbar and in search type %temp% and select all and shift+delete.

All the important files wont be deleted.This may be just 400+mb but i had a case with 12gb of files so....

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How in the hell did you have a 500GB text file? What was in it?

Idk. It was a fresh install and it was a Microsoft folder, for. Net.

 

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Try disabling hibernation since that takes the size of the RAM in your computer.

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