Hi, I have an old WinVista laptop with a 40Gb C: drive and a 40 Gb D: drive. The C: drive is full but for about 650Mb of space. I have not added a program or file to the drive in over a year because the disk was filling up. I moved all of my data files to the D: drive. There are not any programs that I can uninstall from the C: drive (do not want to lose them and they would not free up that much space, anyway.) Up until I recently, I could use Windows Disk Clean Up and by removing all files it found plus all but the most recent System Restore file, it would typically free up 3-4Gb which would last for a week or more. Now, however, it does not clear up more than 300Mb and I am doing it daily. About the only change being made to the laptop are Windows updates, as far as I can tell. I have Kaspersky antivirus and run it religiously, so I do not believe that I have malware. So, my question is whether there is a better, more powerful tool to clean up my disk and make more space? Or do you have any other suggestions as to how I can solve this issue?
This disk clean up is small because your doing it everyday lol, maybe try a disk defrag. Maybe go buy a 16 or 32GB thumb drive or a portable external hard drive and store all your photos music movies and documents on it. Or upgrade the internal hard drives. If money is an issue maybe consider installing a free Linux operating system like ubuntu. Your computer will have more storage space since the OS doesn't take up much I think it's like 2 or 4 GB and it will run faster. I use it on my old laptop and it runs super fast. Boot up time is like 5 seconds and it's ready to use.
I have already moved all data files off the C: drive and put them on the companion D: drive which has plenty of room. Upgrading the internal hard drives is probably not the smart thing to do as this laptop has other issues (like overheating on occasion) and I am not sure that it is worth spending more on it. It is scary to consider removing WinVista and putting in Linux, because my software programs will likely have problems. Thanks anyway.
Their is open source alternatives for most programs and with some tinkering you can get most of your windows programs to run in WINE. If this laptop isnt your main computer maybe you should give it a shot. worst case you run your recovery disk (if you got them) and reinstall your programs and if you had any virus on your computer it will be gone.
Have you deleted the update history? Also check the "Turn Windows Features On/Off". You may not be using some features.
@pupul thanks for your comments. We will quickly expose my lack of technical knowledge with this discussion. I used JDiskReport and it showed 6.4Gb in the Installer folder of Windows which I was wondering about. Is that the update history that you are referring to? I was wondering if I could delete that, but then thought that Windows might see the files missing and go through the update process again? I would love to delete those files and free up the space, but I do not want to screw anything else up, of course. Or is the update history somewhere else?
@jrbiz If you want I can help you with Teamviewer. I'll see what steps should be taken. For these things I do help for FREE. Sorry for late reply. But Hudhud cyclone hit in our state. So heavy raining & some powercut here. Our place is safe from damage though. Add me on skype: pupul13
Thanks for the great offer of help, @pupul and sorry to hear about the cyclone, though I am glad to hear that you are safe. Unfortunately, my day is booked up today with family activities, but I will add you to Skype and would love to coordinate a convenient time for you to take a look. I have TeamViewer on the machine (use it only as a client and not a server, to date, however) so that should work. Thanks again and I will reach out to you on Skype later tonight.
Yeah, that will work. When you get free time, you can add me. I'm maximum time online except I go for sleep. We can figure out some mutual time.