Author Topic: how to free up hard drive space on tiny ssd (Read 872 times)

Waru · October 21, 2017, 11:48:40 PM

god damn i am constantly hovering around 2-3 gb left on my main ssd and it's annoying as hell because i cant install anything on it.

install.esd takes up 4 gigs, pagefile.sys takes up 8 gigs wtf. so much stuff. when i open the drive in windirstat it's just a bunch of needed huge ass files and then a bunch of tiny ones wtff

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torin� · October 21, 2017, 11:49:30 PM

what else do u have installed on it

Insert Name Here� · October 21, 2017, 11:50:49 PM

Windows itself takes up around 30gb even with un-needed stuff gone

How large is your SSD and what games do you have installed? 99.99% sure, you have a low capacity SSD and have a forgetton of large games installed.

Rally · October 22, 2017, 12:01:40 AM

SpaceSniffer is a pretty good utility for finding large files

AutoBahn · October 22, 2017, 12:30:37 AM

if you really need to you can resise the pagefile to 2-4gb since it�s just fallback RAM for Windows and it�s bad to keep it on an SSD anyway, but you should really weigh in your other options first. get rid of anything unnecessary that isn�t system related

Tudoreleu · October 22, 2017, 01:21:44 AM

>hard drive space
>on my SSD

Kyuande · October 22, 2017, 01:30:19 AM

Quote from: Insert Name Here² on October 21, 2017, 11:50:49 PM

Windows itself takes up around 30gb even with un-needed stuff gone

Not sure what system you are running because my Windows 10 Home only took around 8GB of my SSD.

There should be a clean application that Windows has by default under administration tools in control panel to clean up your disk.

Badspot · October 22, 2017, 04:04:31 AM

Assuming windows 10, you can use powershell to remove a bunch of built in bloatware

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get-appxpackage messaging | remove-appxpackage
get-appxpackage sway | remove-appxpackage
get-appxpackage commsphone | remove-appxpackage
get-appxpackage windowsphone remove-appxpackage
get-appxpackage phone | remove-appxpackage
get-appxpackage communicationsapps | remove-appxpackage
get-appxpackage people | remove-appxpackage
get-appxpackage zunemusic | remove-appxpackage
get-appxpackage zunevideo | remove-appxpackage
get-appxpackage zune | remove-appxpackage
get-appxpackage bingfinance | remove-appxpackage
get-appxpackage bingnews | remove-appxpackage
get-appxpackage bingsports | remove-appxpackage
get-appxpackage bingweather | remove-appxpackage
get-appxpackage bing | remove-appxpackage
get-appxpackage onenote | remove-appxpackage
get-appxpackage maps | remove-appxpackage
get-appxpackage solitaire | remove-appxpackage
get-appxpackage officehub | remove-appxpackage
get-appxpackage skypeapp | remove-appxpackage
get-appxpackage getstarted | remove-appxpackage
get-appxpackage 3dbuilder | remove-appxpackage
Get-AppxPackage drawboardpdf | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage freshpaint | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage nytcrossword | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage microsoft.xboxapp | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage SurfaceHub | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage flipboard | Remove-AppxPackage

Note that I have not tried this.

hootaloo · October 22, 2017, 04:49:05 AM

Quote from: Badspot on October 22, 2017, 04:04:31 AM

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Get-AppxPackage SurfaceHub | Remove-AppxPackage get-appxpackage onenote | remove-appxpackage

be sure to keep these if u have a surface like me or ur gonna run into some problems

phflack · October 22, 2017, 07:49:28 AM

Quote from: Waru on October 21, 2017, 11:48:40 PM

pagefile.sys takes up 8 gigs

turn that off or put it on a non-ssd
having pagefile.sys on my ssd killed it

I have a 256GB ssd, and 100GB are missing now
my files are using up 140GB, another partition is about 8GB, 100+GB is missing
I'm guessing it's from memory leaks in drivers causing my RAM to max out, use the page file, making there be too many writes to the ssd and wearing it out

Woof · October 22, 2017, 01:34:42 PM

Delete your loli research folder

St. Francis Xavier · October 22, 2017, 01:36:51 PM

Pagefile should be turned off in the system settings instead of just deleting it. Windows will automatically create a new pagefile if it is enabled in the settings. You can also change the size of said pagefile

Woof · October 23, 2017, 05:48:24 AM

Pagefile HDDs, not SSDs.

carolcat · October 23, 2017, 08:34:07 AM

Quote from: phflack on October 22, 2017, 07:49:28 AM

turn that off or put it on a non-ssd
having pagefile.sys on my ssd killed it

sweats nervously

Trogtor · October 23, 2017, 08:39:09 AM

Quote from: Badspot on October 22, 2017, 04:04:31 AM

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get-appxpackage solitaire | remove-appxpackage

make sure you keep this one too.... nothing but respect for my president