Hey friends,
Today, I am going to talk about one of the most common problem that is faced by end users, developers and other IT and business professionals.
Here is the problem:
"My C drive is almost full... I have uninstalled some of the programs, I have cleared temp files but I still want to clean it more."
Often, when it is long time that you are using your system, the C drive keeps on filling gradually and it starts reaching it's limit. This happens because of multiple reasons and I am sharing here the issues that I faced:
- Browser add alot of temporary files. When I did my clean up both Chrome and edge were consuming more than 2.3 GB
- My AppData was more than 35GB and that is massive. Your AppData may get filled if you are using MS Office, Chrome, various Microsoft softwares, nodejs, Visual Studio nuget packages, Android tools etc.
- There were a lot of traces even when I had uninstalled some of the applications
- My Virtual memory was more than 11GB even when I have 16GB of RAM.
And hence, I wanted to understand, where the heck my space is going so that I can be mindful of the cleaning process. I was already aware of
CCleaner but I needed a tool that:
- Can give me the detailed statistics
- Is lightweight
- Can look into hidden files
- Can give me the sizes of each folder
Solution
After discussing with a friend and doing some research I found a very nice tool that helped me resolve the problems. The tool name is
WinDirStat. It is really lightweight and gives me the complete insights and helped me cleaning up my system.
I free'd up more than 25GB as I still wanted to keep certain files in CACHE and nuget packages as is.
Thank you for reading this! Hope this will help in cleaning up your system.