Windows 10: Acer Aspire V showing very little free GB - please help me!

AndreTen
Well - all is ok. I got there eventually with your help. If nothing else I have learned to use 'snippet' and 'treesize'
Looking in Acer C now I have 52GB free of 95GB which is what it was approximately before all the problems.
Thanks again

 

*Thumbs

Great moggie. You did it *Smile
But this is first part. Now that you learnt how to post pictures, lets see what does your disk partitioning looks like (like some other users suggested before..)

Right click on Start and select Disk management and post picture of your partitions..

 

This is it!

 

*Thumbs OK, I don't see any real problem here. You could get rid of last partition (15 GB recovery) It's probably from Acer, but you could make backup on external drive (with Macrium or similar) and use that space for files.

One other thing, that file you run to delete your files created a Temp.txt file in your C: folder. Could you open it and paste the text here. It is your %Temp% destination. It should be like C:\Users\You\Appdata\Temp... and if it's not, more files could be created..

 

In case you might be interested in viewing a screenshot of your hard drive's space diagram, check this out.
Open File Explorer, right click Acer (C), left click Properties, your Acer (C) will show up.
Mine looks like this




I believe it's also possible to increase your free space to more than 51.65GB as AndreTen has indicated.
I do system image backups at the end of the month, just before the beginning of the following month.
The reason is that Microsoft does updates more than once a month
I use Macrium Reflect Free (MRF).

Please also create a USB Recovery Drive
Create Recovery Drive in Windows 10 Windows 10 Performance Maintenance Tutorials

 

AndreTen
Thanks for that but..................have no idea where to find this file. Have looked in C and searched but no luck.

I have never looked for files before

 

AndreTen
Is this where the file is?

 

You're almost there: open Users, your user name, the AppData folder. the Local folder, the Temp folder.

 

Hello MeAndMyComputer
Did as you said but all I have is this! So which temp files am I to delete - still do not understand.

 

Hi moggie. No problem, if your Temp files would be here, it would be full of them.

About cleaning Temp files... no need to delete them manually. Run Disk cleanup
YOu can Right click on Start, type Cleanup and Click on Disk cleanup

Select C: drive and in the next window all that you want to clear...

 

Sorry about that. It appeared to me from prior screenshots, that Show hidden files, folders and drives was turned on as some folders were opaque and that feature was need to follow that procedure.




I was just trying to follow through on using the path you needed to get the Temp folder but AndreTen's recommendation to use Disk Cleanup does the job. In fact, Disk Cleanup is part of my monthly maintenance at the end of the month.

 

Thanks AndreTen and everyone - everything now completed and solved!

Yes I use Cleaner and do regularly clean 'C' temp files

I have learned some useful lessons over the last few weeks.

 

Excellent Moggie