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How to free up space on the C drive

Pingouino9574 Posted messages 16 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -  
brucine Posted messages 25275 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -

Hello,

I regularly perform cleanups and delete temporary files on the C drive of my computer.

Despite this, I often see the message "free up storage space."

How can I get durable space on this C drive?

Thank you for your help


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    brucine Posted messages 25275 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 187
     

    Hello,

    The message appears systematically if, as far as I remember, free space on the disk drops below 10%.

    After removing temporary files, you can still gain some space by deleting remnants of old updates and installation.

    at the administrator command prompt:

    Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup

    You can go one step further by deleting the hibernation file (hiberfil.sys); it often frees several GB, and possibly, at your own risk, the recovery partition (less than 1 GB), but miracles are not guaranteed.

    If the disk is small, you should uninstall unused applications, delete videos and mail attachments that have become useless, but the only real remedy is an additional internal or external drive to store data.

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  2. Pingouino9574 Posted messages 16 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
     

    At the Administrator Command Prompt, I receive the following response:

    Error: 740

    Elevated privileges are required to run Dism

    Please use a command prompt with elevated privileges to perform these tasks.

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    1. brucine Posted messages 25275 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 187
       

      It's either that you didn't right-click on Command Prompt and Run as administrator, or that you are an administrator of your PC but signed in with a user account, or that you're not an administrator at all.

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  3. jfmimi Posted messages 13661 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   1 932
     

    Hello, if you have another partition (D) or another drive

    do this:

    To free up space on the "C" drive, move to the "D" drive the user folders (Documents, Videos, Music, Downloads, and Pictures)

    here is the procedure:

    Start by creating on the "D" drive the new folders (Documents, Videos, Music, Downloads, and Pictures), it will be easier.

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  4. MPMP10 Posted messages 47607 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   19 101
     
    Hello,
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    1. brucine Posted messages 25275 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4 187
       

      Hello,

      Why not even though the space used isn’t great and why not, while we’re at it, also limit the size of the recycle bin.

      But we all talk a bit in the void: we don’t know the size of the disk, what else besides a limited cleanup is installed in terms of software more or less useful and contents (videos, attachments, downloads...) that are not temporary, the existence or not of a second disk or the possibility of an external disk.

       

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