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Huge C:\WINDOWS folder by Reload2 on 09-14-2008 at 09:28 PM
Hi guys
I'm having a problem since one month with my C:\ drive
Usually, I rarely install stuffs on that drive so I always have about 20GB of free space.
But since one month, I noticed that the space is decreasing like, every day.
Last week I had like 9GB of free space and this week I found out that I had only 4.6 GB free space 
And I still never install stuffs on that drive so that's kinda curios so, by looking where was my problem, I found out that my WINDOWS folder, which normally is about 5GB, has increased to 22GB 
So I was woundering what happened to my WINDOWS folder, if there was a way to cleaning it without deleting important datas, like a program that does that folder cleanup or something? (I used Disk cleanup and it cleaned only like 100 MB)
I'm using Windows XP SP2
Thanks a lot
RE: Huge C:\WINDOWS folder by Mike on 09-14-2008 at 09:33 PM
Use something like SequoiaView and see what's taking all the space 
RE: Huge C:\WINDOWS folder by ShawnZ on 09-14-2008 at 10:18 PM
my windows folder is 24GB 
RE: Huge C:\WINDOWS folder by Chancer on 09-14-2008 at 11:47 PM
My Vista's is 12,3 GB. And my XP's, 1,8 GB.
On Vista, the subfolder "winsxs" uses 6,9 GB, which is more than 50%. Damn
RE: Huge C:\WINDOWS folder by ShawnZ on 09-15-2008 at 12:52 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Chancer
On Vista, the subfolder "winsxs" uses 6,9 GB, which is more than 50%. Damn
sounds standard
RE: Huge C:\WINDOWS folder by RebelSean on 09-15-2008 at 12:41 PM
Guide: How to make your C:\Windows Folder Smaller