![]() ![]() Try going to Start and right-clicking Computer on the right hand side and select Properties. You should be able to get the size of System Restore. Remember, she will get a warning if she tries to delete a file too big for the recycle bin so that would be a warning to maybe think twice before deleting if she wasn't sure. If she doesn't delete any large files, such as movies, then say 500mb should be fine. The appropriate size really depends on what type of files she deletes. I always empty my bin so I keep it small. If she doesn't keep much in the recycle bin then you can cut that down to a more reasonable size. That is probably very high for the type of use it gets. It looks like the Recycle Bin is set at 10% of the Windows partition. We could look at that if you think it is worth it. You might be able to gain a little space in Installer folder but probably not much-maybe a few hundred mb if you had some failed updates. So you are about at the limit for that HD. I'm guessing it is a 40gb HD with an 8gb recovery partition. From what I have seen an old Vista installation taking 30gb for "core" files is about normal. I think any further tweaking in that folder would be pushing your luck. Vista like Win7 takes quite a bit of space as WinSxS grows. I think you are about at the end of what you can do in the Windows folder. Can any more gains be made? The hard drive is still close to being full. ![]() The amount of hard drive now used by Windows is 17.4 Gb, down from 22.0 Gb. The total space used in now 24.3 GB a gain of 4.2 Gb. It would be helpful to know where in CCleaner it is to be found.Įighty-nine percent of the softwaredistribution folder was allocated to the downloads sub-folder thus I’ve deleted its contents. It might be because I’ve not looked in the correct place. I cannot find Hotfix Uninstallers in CCleaner. I typed “Create Restore” (not the quotation marks, of course) as suggested in Search however, it didn’t bring up any options regarding System Restore, therefore, I don’t know how much space is allocated to it. Should I alter this to a smaller quantity? The Recycle Bin has 3265 Mb allocated to it. How to install the NVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu 18.Running the “compcln.exe” application has freed up 2.3 Gb of space. ![]()
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