check where my diskspace goes to

hey guys, i got a 80gb ssd and i somehow loose some gb of diskspace every week. Restore points are disabled and i dont know where that space goes to. Is there a way to find out easily? e.g. to see which file has gained the mb during the last week or which new file is the biggest one during the last week etc.

thx bb

 

have you disabled pagefile and hibernation, unless you need the pagefile some software does.

 

i have hibernation enabled as i use it pretty much (it magically happend alot of times already that my laptop woke up while in sleep mode.. and that while it was in the notebookcase and me walking around).

and i never touched anything with pagefiles nor i know what it is :S

@edit: screen of my pagefiles.. so its enabled and used 4gb but i have no clue what it is for.

 

just untick it, then select no pagefile and click apply , then reboot.

Also check you c: for the pagfile , you will need to enable show hidden files in organize, folder and search options.

 

Try this: http://windirstat.info/

 

oh lol.. the hibernate-file and the pagefile-file are 3gb and 4gb

explains alot

hmm pagefile:
when ram is full it will put the stuff into the pagefile. so i guess it should be important? i got 4gb ram

 

I have 4GB RAM too in my Lenovo, but still keep the PageFile off. Becouse basicly those 4GB's are important for me. And I never use an app which needs more then 4GB RAM. Only use it for school work...

 

I have 4gb with the pagefile turned off and i have still got 2/3 of my memory free.

 

hmm i often use vmware.. together with firefox and other apps my ram is full.
aslong as i know where my space goes to i dont rly mind.

but i´m not sure if the space i loose rly is the pagefile / hibernationfile or smth else.

 

turning pagefile off might gain you temporarily 4gb of storage, but it won't fix the issue that you have less and less and less storage over time. so just don't do it, as it's not the help you're looking for (starwarsquote anyone? )

and to all others, you should turn it back on, all of you. but you knew that already


edit: you use vmware, right? is any of the virtual disks set to "growing"? if so, that might be the case for the loss of more and more storage.

 

i have the vmware´s all on the 2nd hdd. so no thats not it :/

and its not that much actually.. but e.g. from yesterday until today i lost 1gb.. and i have no clue why (didnt install anything etc.. or maybe it was during the last 2 days.. i dont know)

 

My suggestion to you, download Ccleaner and clean your temporary files as first step
Then, type %temp% in searchbar at startmenu and delete all the temporary files. Then go to C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download you can delete the files insde the download folder. This is place where windows keep the temporary Windows Update files...

 

i ofc have ccleaner

and these two directorys gave me 40mb space back

are there any other directorys i should propably add to the ccleaner list (u can add custom directorys which ccleaner should clear) ?

 

Try to run the build in Disk Cleaner. This can maybe give you some MB or GB's back

 

you have system restore running right? that creates snapshots of some system files, they can be huge.

 

no i dont have system restore, its on all 3 hdd´s off

 

hm.. quite out of ideas right now..

i guess at that point i'd install windirstat and check out which folders look suspicious.