Windows 10: System and reserved taking up a lot of space

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  1. System and reserved taking up a lot of space


    I'm trying to install some games on my laptop 512 GB SSD and went to check on my storage to see what I can delete. Then I realized that system and reserve is taking up 234 GB of storage. When I looked into the details, it said System files 20.1 GB, Reserved storage 7.04 GB, Virtual memory 195 GB, and Hibernation files 12.3 GB. I'm pretty sure that virtual memory shouldn't take pretty much half of my SSD. Please help, Thank you.

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    Yamato Ogiso, Mar 16, 2023
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  2. Rey Bel1 Win User

    windows 10 system and reserve taking up too much space

    Hi,



    Windows Restore Points does eat up tremendous amount of your disk space and clearing it would indeed help free up some space. Aside from restore points, there are other invisible factors that can eat away your hard drive space like temporary and cached files.
    For us to better understand why you keep on getting error messages about your storage space being full, we would like to ask the following questions:

    • When did you first encounter the issue?
    • Which Windows version and build is you device running? Type winver on the search bar, and then press
      Enter to find out.
    • What specific error message or error code did you get?
    • Could you repost the screenshots again?


    In the meantime, we suggest you check the steps provided by Greg Carmack on this

    thread
    about clearing system and reserve after an upgrade and see if it helps.



    We look forward to your response.
     
    Rey Bel1, Mar 16, 2023
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  3. Maxm15 Win User
    System & reserved using up lots of space

    I'm running on a 117 GB SSD as my boot drive and 1TB HDD for most storage, but it seems windows is taking up too much space on my SSD.

    In settings it says under SYSTEM > Storage > C: >SYSTEM & RESERVED that System files are using up 39.9 GB, but the requirement for windows 10 is 20 GB of space.

    I'm wondering why its using up so much space and if there's any way to fix it other than a clean install because Id rather not lose my stuff, and finding and backing up game save files is quite tedious and I expect Id miss something.

    I've already looked at the page file and its about 2GB, so its not that

    Hibernation file is listed separately from the 40GB in settings, so is system restore.
     
    Maxm15, Mar 16, 2023
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  4. Anna_IV Win User

    System and reserved taking up a lot of space

    System and reserved taking 41.7 GB of space

    Problem: Something is taking up a lot of space on my PC

    Initial Analysis of the storage showed that System & Reserved is using 41.7GB of storage.
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    Analysis using TreeSize:
    I did some research on why I have little available storage space and saw some posts online that it may be due to logs or something that is causing the System & Reserved to be taking up a lot of storage. The suggestions made said to download Treesize to get a better analysis of the storage sub-structure.


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    TreeSize showed that 56.9 GB is in the sub-folder PendingDeletes. I tried deleting the files but it said I did not have permission to delete files. I needed permission from TrustedInstaller as that was the administrator.

    I was able to change the administration privileges to my account to delete and I encountered another permissions error.

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    Has anyone had this problem before?
     
    Anna_IV, Mar 16, 2023
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