Windows 10: Empty folder consuming 150gb

I have an ASUS laptop with 450gb of C drive Windows 10. It was showing 220gb used. Although i have a lot of softwares in my laptop i thought of deleting the program files of the ones which i dont use.

When i analysed the storage distribution i found out that the space consumed by program files and windows is not that much.

But there was one folder under programdata - Asus - VirtualDrive which was using 150gb of the space. When i opened it the folder was empty.

What should i do with that folder now ?

I want to clear up some space for new softwares but i dont know whether it would be safe to delete that folder.

Can anyone please help me with this issue.

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How I Free'd Almost 150GB From HDD


The 3-Steps I took to Clean almost 150GB fromm my PC


The first thing I did was to uninstall unwanted and unused programs. GBs Free'd: about 10

The Second thing I did was empty my downloads folder. GBs Free'd: about 75

The Third thing I did was use CCleaner Free to clean my system. GBs Free'd about 65

And for good measures I defragmented my hard drive.



This thread is not really a guide, but more or less a suggestion on how to do the same.



I hope you found some use from this *Wink.

 

Quick Access not searching Pictures folder

Summary, that last suggestion didn't work.

• I moved the pictures to another folder temporarily.

• Then I tried to remove the Pictures folder with option one at Add or Remove Folders from This PC in Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials. Even after rebooting, the Pictures folder remained.
• So I tried using option two. Same thing: reboot >> Pictures folder still there.

• Since there were no troubleshooting steps for this scenario, just for the heck of it, I ran through the restore steps. Copied some pictures into the Pictures folder, ran a Quick Access search and initial problem remains: Searching all of QA doesn't find any files in Pictures folder, running search on just the Pictures folder does. I want to run a global search and find matching files in any/all of the Documents, Music, Videos, and Pictures folders.

That article dates from 2015 and I'm guessing is out of date. I hope it didn't create potential future problems in my registry.

Bottom line: I'm still looking for a fix.

 

Downloads folder is the Documents folder

Hi Chris,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I suggest you to Restore to Default the folders and document settings and see if it helps.

Step 1:

Please follow below steps and check if it helps.

• Go to Download folder.
• Right click on the Download Folder and go to Properties.
• In Properties go to Location tab.
• In location Tab Click on Restore Default.

Step 2:

Please follow below steps and check if it helps.

• Go to Documents folder.
• Right click on the Document folder and go to Properties.
• In Properties go to Location tab.
• In location Tab Click on Restore Default.

After performing above steps change the settings as you required and check if it helps.

Hope these information helps, please get back to us for future support, we’ll be glad to assist you further.

Thank you.