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O.P. Huge C:\WINDOWS folder
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 :S
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 :O

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

This post was edited on 09-14-2008 at 09:29 PM by Reload2.
09-14-2008 09:28 PM
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RE: Huge C:\WINDOWS folder
Use something like SequoiaView and see what's taking all the space :)
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RE: Huge C:\WINDOWS folder
my windows folder is 24GB :p
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RE: Huge C:\WINDOWS folder
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

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RE: Huge C:\WINDOWS folder
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On Vista, the subfolder "winsxs" uses 6,9 GB, which is more than 50%. Damn

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Guide: How to make your C:\Windows Folder Smaller

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