With how sharply the price of SSDs has fallen in recent months and years, getting 1 TB is really affordable. I've been upgrading my storage piece by piece for a while and it's allowed me to hoard as much as I want!
@@Denastus it wasn't too long ago that a 1 TB 7200 RPM HDD was $110, and now I can get a name-brand 1 TB SATA SSD for ~$50. When I see good deals, I snap them up, too. Pro tip, check your local grocery stores! My Kroger subsidiary has a little electronics section and had a WD Blue for 70% off
@@Ghovilord Yep, warned my brother that 1TB wouldn't be enough unless he took the time to move his games to the 2TB HDD instead of just uninstalling every time he needs faster space and he still just does that instead. It is what it is.
That's fine, but something I've been doing is splitting my main storage drive into two partitions- one windows partition about 120 GB in size, and the rest as some fast storage. Reason being, if I ever have to reinstall Windows due to some issue, I don't have to recreate all my files. In fact, I've got it to the point where most files in my account folder are in a different drive, such that if I need to reinstall I just change some registry values and add a symlink, then my profile is restored with 90% of the data back. Only issue is, programs that force installing on C, and Windows driver and component files that can't for some reason be deleted, unnecessarily fill up the drive. It's not an immediate fill-up but it is difficult to resize the drive.
here is my tips of space managing on windows: 1)change the location for the Temporary files, instead of C driver set it to D driver 2)change the location where you install stuff if possible. 3)edit the user profile location, instead of saving it in 'C:\Users' set it to save to 'D:\Users' 4)use symbolic links. You can install Office to C but decide its better if its been on D due to space issues. Instead of uninstalling and re-installing office to D, you can move it to D and then symbol link it to C.
Ahhhhh! So that's what happened to the good ol' Disk Cleanup! I noticed it was missing in the Disk properties dialogue last week at work after they upgraded several of our systems to the latest and greatest. (I'm still a Win10/Linux heathen at home. Spent too much on building this PC to bother rebuilding it just for Win11)
If your pc is working fine delete system restore, shadow copies as well as turning off and deleting hibernation file. They can be turned back on afterwards but be sure to make a new restore point to give you a current restore point. It can save you hundreds of GB of storage space.
I have a 2TB SSD just for Windows 11 and I have Storage Sense set for 1 month as I feel like it works well for my own PC usage. I've also set it the same way for my mum's PC.
alternatively what you could also do is install treesize which gives you a very easy to use overview of how big each folder (and program) is on your pc and neatly ordens it at size, then simply click through the largest folder which then displays everything in that folder again ordened at size and choose whatever you want to delete and when youve saved a couple of gb's which should take only a few minutes just continue as normal
@@akyhne no but temp files usually arent that big of a deal, thats only a few mb's. With treesize i usually delete 50+ gb's in one go from garbage files i should have deleted a long time ago
@@joshuadeleeuw That's not the case for me. I often use Disk Cleanup to delete temp files and often in the hundreds of GBs. It really depends on what kind of work you're doing. As my C-drive is only 500GB, I have to clean up pretty often.
@@akyhne hmmm, yeah oke, you are right. It highly depends, for me my drive also sometimes gets full because of temp files but most of the time i then just reboot my pc and it usually goes away, still i highly recommend treesize to see what is going on.
@@joshuadeleeuw Yeah, that's the reason why I've used Treesize for +25 years. But it's not a cleanup tool as such. Though it has saved me many times when I was running out of space. It has postponed buying many harddisks over the years.
There are another to free space if you already delete temporary files but still full storage in it, is page file (virtual memory) in drives. Some page file use to open many apps as you want if you have only less than 16GB of RAM, but it can decrease your free storage itself as how much committed memory use.
Also if possible: Get a SSD/HD to save your files. If you only have the SSD that you use on your PC/Laptop you can transfer that photos, videos, that you dont use so often. For a Laptop buy get external HardDrive for PC you can check a guide on how to install another HDD or as before get an external HardDrive
Just open run command and type temp press enter and delete all the files repeat this process for %temp% prefetch and also uninstall all the bloatwares that comes with windows and also uninstall the programs you don't need and also try deleting some unwanted files from downloads by checking manually and also clean up recycle bin and also check the homescreen for large files
Any recommendations for cleaning out duplicate files? I'm not talking about backups. With around 2 decades or so of migrating computer to computer over the years, with lets say less than stellar organizing on my part, I'd guess around a third or so of my total used space is unintentional duplicates. I'd really like to clear them out so I could make some clean backups without so much wasted space.
That's what happens when you hit OK on every question when installing programs, and save every file you download to the Download directory as it is configured after installing the OS. Same with videos, pictures and documents. Create a program directory on D:, move the Download, Documents and Videos directories to D: and suddenly you can start using that drive.
I also remember when a Micro$HIT update nuked some user's datea when they Linkined a Library folder to an external drive ( an october Update years ago now )
A pcie expansion card for extra nvme storage is great, but windows will see any system storage space as a threat and just fill your drive with page files, caches thumbnails, and restore points you never asked for or wanted. Changing to Linux was the best think I ever did.
storage sense *does not work* if you move your Downloads folder to D: drive. It won't auto-delete old files anymore. It works only if you keep Downloads folder in C:\users\\ directory.
A video showing how to clone drives, some people have small C drives and that can only be solved by switching it, and a lot of people aren’t willing to lose everything there, or reinstalling windows, just to expand their C drive
I remember back in the days of WinXP, I had a friend who reset his PC regularly enough that he took the time to make a custom Windows install image with a few things removed, and a few things (like Firefox and Service Packs) added in. I should do the same with Windows 11.
@@Redwan777 User specific. Text files. Manually delete them if required, or delete the user as /root. Software is stored in /root not the users home directory so their personal .config files will remain. Linux is a multi-user system so if you had 50 users and you deleted all of their personal .config files by removing software I imagine some of them wouldn't be best pleased. It's kinda how it's designed.
some distros come with useless crap too, not anywhere near the spyware Windows 11 comes with, but I don't need an Office Suite, for example, so that's bloatware for me.
Never understood why people skimp on storage space. My pc has about 24tb of storage. I know im overkill but just saw my friend order a $4k pre build and it only came with 1tb ssd.
ive used win11 bloatware remover for every win 11 OS ive installed and i would call myself rather savvy with the internet but i didnt know about the English (World) option, i think ill be doing that for the forseeable future
The biggest problem ive found is for some reason industry still default installing apps and its temporary folder in c drive. Even ive partitioned 330gb for c drive, it still regularly get filled up with apps, downloading folders and temp files after several years of use
Wait till you do AI Denoise in Adobe Lightroom on large numbers of photos at once… Adobe thought it would be a good idea to have Lightroom put the cache for that on the C drive instead of the drive you told it to put the cache on, so if you have a 500gb m.2 drive it runs out of space after 700 or so photos
WinDirStat is kinda outdated. There’s a great alternative called WizTree which is orders of magnitude faster because it refers directly to the file system indexes rather than going through the Windows APIs
Same, but note that WinDirStat is kinda outdated. There’s a great alternative called WizTree which is orders of magnitude faster because it refers directly to the file system indexes rather than going through the Windows APIs
I have a problem.... Is have a lot of backups for modlists, just a lot of other stuff on my drives... And they fill up really fast..... Im up to 9tb now..... And i can avsolutly fir more drives in my case... At least i have the slots to add them.
Or just install any linux distro, and your temporary files can clear at every reboot (tmpfs), and you can even strip your system of all unenecssary stuff, like even the bootloader. Windows itself is just unnecessary bloat.
PC Manager is a joke. I pointed it at my movie folders to see if it could find anything that was a duplicate but different resolutions. It said I had 374GB of duplicate files which was flat out false.
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How to get more storage in windows: Install more than one drive. Seriously how many builds do we see that only have one fairly small drive? On a "high end" build you might get two small drives.
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I remember when XP could fit on an 8GB partition.
Tiny 11 could probably do that.
Okay, boomer.
XP could fit in 1Gb partition!
@@epickh64 No Boomers were our parent/grandparents. Still older, tho. Not yelling at clouds yet, thank God.
I remember when Win 95 could fit in 13 floppy disks.
I remember my shocked expression in 2006 when I learned a USB drive could store 2 gb.... Good times.
2 Gigabytes no longer exists
@@stephensnell5707 yep Microsoft took them.
I remember in 2006 I had to beg my father to allow me to install a an MMO of 8GB in the computer
How to free up space? Download more storage.
yeah i just downloaded 5 TiB of space. gonna need it to build lineaheos from scratch
I thought that only worked for RAM, times be changing. Next thing you know these AI programs will be able to generate us a GPU.
but what about downloadingmore RAM.... Or a better CPU...
noo dont do that download more RAM it's much better!!
this only works with ram.
With how sharply the price of SSDs has fallen in recent months and years, getting 1 TB is really affordable. I've been upgrading my storage piece by piece for a while and it's allowed me to hoard as much as I want!
Start hoarding 2TB sticks. Those are just as affordable.
@@Denastus it wasn't too long ago that a 1 TB 7200 RPM HDD was $110, and now I can get a name-brand 1 TB SATA SSD for ~$50. When I see good deals, I snap them up, too. Pro tip, check your local grocery stores! My Kroger subsidiary has a little electronics section and had a WD Blue for 70% off
@@Denastus 1 TB is not enough nowadays. You need at least 2 tb
@@Ghovilord Yep, warned my brother that 1TB wouldn't be enough unless he took the time to move his games to the 2TB HDD instead of just uninstalling every time he needs faster space and he still just does that instead. It is what it is.
That's fine, but something I've been doing is splitting my main storage drive into two partitions- one windows partition about 120 GB in size, and the rest as some fast storage. Reason being, if I ever have to reinstall Windows due to some issue, I don't have to recreate all my files. In fact, I've got it to the point where most files in my account folder are in a different drive, such that if I need to reinstall I just change some registry values and add a symlink, then my profile is restored with 90% of the data back.
Only issue is, programs that force installing on C, and Windows driver and component files that can't for some reason be deleted, unnecessarily fill up the drive. It's not an immediate fill-up but it is difficult to resize the drive.
WizTree all they way.
Same. Best visual analyzer out there. 100x faster because it scans the MFT rather than each file.
fuckin, thank you ! lmfao
@@nothinghere615 is that different from the good old WinDirStat?
This.
I personally like space sniffer for it's readability but I will check this one out as well
here is my tips of space managing on windows:
1)change the location for the Temporary files, instead of C driver set it to D driver
2)change the location where you install stuff if possible.
3)edit the user profile location, instead of saving it in 'C:\Users' set it to save to 'D:\Users'
4)use symbolic links. You can install Office to C but decide its better if its been on D due to space issues. Instead of uninstalling and re-installing office to D, you can move it to D and then symbol link it to C.
That is not saving any space, that is just moving the clutter somewhere else, and for that you already need to a second drive.
Ahhhhh! So that's what happened to the good ol' Disk Cleanup! I noticed it was missing in the Disk properties dialogue last week at work after they upgraded several of our systems to the latest and greatest. (I'm still a Win10/Linux heathen at home. Spent too much on building this PC to bother rebuilding it just for Win11)
Its there in Win11, just part of the File Explorer itself and not the properties box
If your pc is working fine delete system restore, shadow copies as well as turning off and deleting hibernation file.
They can be turned back on afterwards but be sure to make a new restore point to give you a current restore point.
It can save you hundreds of GB of storage space.
I have a 2TB SSD just for Windows 11 and I have Storage Sense set for 1 month as I feel like it works well for my own PC usage. I've also set it the same way for my mum's PC.
alternatively what you could also do is install treesize which gives you a very easy to use overview of how big each folder (and program) is on your pc and neatly ordens it at size, then simply click through the largest folder which then displays everything in that folder again ordened at size and choose whatever you want to delete and when youve saved a couple of gb's which should take only a few minutes just continue as normal
Treesize doesn't have any options to delete temporary files, at least not in my version.
@@akyhne no but temp files usually arent that big of a deal, thats only a few mb's. With treesize i usually delete 50+ gb's in one go from garbage files i should have deleted a long time ago
@@joshuadeleeuw That's not the case for me. I often use Disk Cleanup to delete temp files and often in the hundreds of GBs. It really depends on what kind of work you're doing.
As my C-drive is only 500GB, I have to clean up pretty often.
@@akyhne hmmm, yeah oke, you are right. It highly depends, for me my drive also sometimes gets full because of temp files but most of the time i then just reboot my pc and it usually goes away, still i highly recommend treesize to see what is going on.
@@joshuadeleeuw Yeah, that's the reason why I've used Treesize for +25 years. But it's not a cleanup tool as such. Though it has saved me many times when I was running out of space. It has postponed buying many harddisks over the years.
There are another to free space if you already delete temporary files but still full storage in it, is page file (virtual memory) in drives. Some page file use to open many apps as you want if you have only less than 16GB of RAM, but it can decrease your free storage itself as how much committed memory use.
3:06 says, "Windows 11," proceeds to show Windows 10 start menu. I want!
C;\ drive being called Call of Duty is so funny but true
Also if possible: Get a SSD/HD to save your files.
If you only have the SSD that you use on your PC/Laptop you can transfer that photos, videos, that you dont use so often. For a Laptop buy get external HardDrive for PC you can check a guide on how to install another HDD or as before get an external HardDrive
Just open run command and type temp press enter and delete all the files repeat this process for %temp% prefetch and also uninstall all the bloatwares that comes with windows and also uninstall the programs you don't need and also try deleting some unwanted files from downloads by checking manually and also clean up recycle bin and also check the homescreen for large files
Any recommendations for cleaning out duplicate files? I'm not talking about backups. With around 2 decades or so of migrating computer to computer over the years, with lets say less than stellar organizing on my part, I'd guess around a third or so of my total used space is unintentional duplicates. I'd really like to clear them out so I could make some clean backups without so much wasted space.
That's what happens when you hit OK on every question when installing programs, and save every file you download to the Download directory as it is configured after installing the OS. Same with videos, pictures and documents.
Create a program directory on D:, move the Download, Documents and Videos directories to D: and suddenly you can start using that drive.
English World 😳 love how these videos, usually have something even the techiest of people, haven’t noticed… keep up the good work.
Remember when an update to Storage Sense deleted everyone's downloads folder?
Good times, good times.
I also remember when a Micro$HIT update nuked some user's datea when they Linkined a Library folder to an external drive ( an october Update years ago now )
A pcie expansion card for extra nvme storage is great, but windows will see any system storage space as a threat and just fill your drive with page files, caches thumbnails, and restore points you never asked for or wanted.
Changing to Linux was the best think I ever did.
Good for you
No way this video didnt include CompactGui. In fact you should re-upload this entire video just to include it because thats just how good it is!
storage sense *does not work* if you move your Downloads folder to D: drive. It won't auto-delete old files anymore. It works only if you keep Downloads folder in C:\users\\ directory.
Ussually have 2 separate nvme one strictly for OS and applications and a 4tb for games
chris titus has an amazing windows debloat tool
A video showing how to clone drives, some people have small C drives and that can only be solved by switching it, and a lot of people aren’t willing to lose everything there, or reinstalling windows, just to expand their C drive
I remember back in the days of WinXP, I had a friend who reset his PC regularly enough that he took the time to make a custom Windows install image with a few things removed, and a few things (like Firefox and Service Packs) added in. I should do the same with Windows 11.
Pls in Darkmode next time xD
Say what you want about Linux package managers.... they have an awesome auto clean up. Plus no bloatware is nice.
Other than folders in ~/.config Why do they need to exist after uninstallation?
@@Redwan777 User specific. Text files. Manually delete them if required, or delete the user as /root. Software is stored in /root not the users home directory so their personal .config files will remain.
Linux is a multi-user system so if you had 50 users and you deleted all of their personal .config files by removing software I imagine some of them wouldn't be best pleased. It's kinda how it's designed.
some distros come with useless crap too, not anywhere near the spyware Windows 11 comes with, but I don't need an Office Suite, for example, so that's bloatware for me.
Don't forget the NTFS compression feature.
Never understood why people skimp on storage space.
My pc has about 24tb of storage. I know im overkill but just saw my friend order a $4k pre build and it only came with 1tb ssd.
24 tb of external drive not internal memory
@@rex_schd a 16tb hdd and 8 TB in ssds i have 2 nas that add up to about 50tb of storage.
@@BlueHasia Then double that for backups, right?
What a peasent. I have twice that. 2 TB
unless i use more storage than my 240gb one right now. i'm not about to buy more storage just to leave it unused. :P
Late video. I already formatted my PC to free up space for my C Drive :(
ive used win11 bloatware remover for every win 11 OS ive installed and i would call myself rather savvy with the internet but i didnt know about the English (World) option, i think ill be doing that for the forseeable future
goro majima fan spotted
@@eimunaguni Kiryu-Chan?
just delete call of duty
The biggest problem ive found is for some reason industry still default installing apps and its temporary folder in c drive. Even ive partitioned 330gb for c drive, it still regularly get filled up with apps, downloading folders and temp files after several years of use
Wait till you do AI Denoise in Adobe Lightroom on large numbers of photos at once… Adobe thought it would be a good idea to have Lightroom put the cache for that on the C drive instead of the drive you told it to put the cache on, so if you have a 500gb m.2 drive it runs out of space after 700 or so photos
Windows: I can delete not needed files: Me: WHY ARE THEY THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE IF THEY ARE NOT NEEDED?
Windirstat is an absolute godsend in this regard. Sorts biggest folders and files easy to easily find the biggest criminals of storage theft.
WinDirStat is kinda outdated. There’s a great alternative called WizTree which is orders of magnitude faster because it refers directly to the file system indexes rather than going through the Windows APIs
I switched to wiztree as it does the same thing but waaaaay faster!
Neat, wanted to look into this
0:04 U should have said is still "Crucial"...
He first talks and records, video editor decides what clip comes where
Now all they need to do is add a 2 gb jumper on the 2.5" SSD.
Back in the day it was difficult to free up space on our 540mb hard drive.
there is also a folder for each browser user that contains unecessary files and saved sites (8 gb per 10 years), sadly cant rember path
You forgot to mention, the number of Windows most of these tricks and tips are meant for
Late video, I just got a 2TB M .2 for a fresh install to clear up the space.
Yep, that's me in a nutshell! I alway fighting myself with these capacity limits to prevent my computer to slowdown or even worse, malfunctioned!
Microsoft PC Manager is not available in Germany.
Expected WinDirStat
Same, but note that WinDirStat is kinda outdated. There’s a great alternative called WizTree which is orders of magnitude faster because it refers directly to the file system indexes rather than going through the Windows APIs
You can no longer install microsoft pc manager on windows 11, it has no install button in the store
Format C drive, Install a better operating system for optimal space
the best way to get the most out of your drives is to format them
screw you Dell for thinking 256GB is enough on the Dell Latitude 7390
If you're running out of space on Latitude series laptop, you are not the right customer for it. It's more professional work related series.
"Dude, you're getting a Dell!"
how you running out of space on 256gb lol I have 128gb and I still got 39gb free
@@aksGJOANUIFIFJiufjJU21 Some people have more than an internet browser. I have a 256 GB phone and even that has less free space than your computer.
I use a utility called tree size to see how much each of my files take
Just delete whichever folder takes up the most space inside your C drive. In most cases, that would be System32.
Delete stuff, saved you a watch.
someone i know had a 256gb ssd and 1tb hdd but the ssd was full and hdd was empty
ironically the fulll ssd will now be slower as the empty hdd
I don't understand why they put the downloads folder in temporary files I once deleted it and glad there was nothing important
If you want less bloat when installing Windows. Set the location to "World", and you'll get a lot less bloat.
still love komodo dragons
I have a problem.... Is have a lot of backups for modlists, just a lot of other stuff on my drives... And they fill up really fast.....
Im up to 9tb now..... And i can avsolutly fir more drives in my case... At least i have the slots to add them.
My favourite way to clean up space is wiping the disk and starting over. I keep my important data in my NAS + cloud so I don't really care 😊
As someone who already knows, I hope this video helps you, sweet summer child.
Or just install any linux distro, and your temporary files can clear at every reboot (tmpfs), and you can even strip your system of all unenecssary stuff, like even the bootloader. Windows itself is just unnecessary bloat.
PC Manager is a joke. I pointed it at my movie folders to see if it could find anything that was a duplicate but different resolutions. It said I had 374GB of duplicate files which was flat out false.
at the command line:
c:>format c: /X /Y
Treesize free edition from Jam Software
Thanks
How about a video explaining how and why :D drive works?
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Where's the part about deleting the System32 folder?
But they havent let you expand system drive(partition)
I confirm, Call of Duty does take the whole space of the drive. 😂
thank you so much
Nostalgia and humor.
Need to free up space? Uninstall windows.
You prune,that would stop a Computer from working entirely
How to free space on windows:
Step 1: uninstall windows
2:21 Wiztree FTW
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windows also has disc clear utility
Get a 4TB or a 2TB M.2. The prices are good now a days
How about a 20 TB HDD and actually get a decent amount of storage instead?
I thought they would mention Chris Titus' program, but welp
Was trying to follow along.... until I realized in the middle that much of this stuff is only in Windows 11. Sadge
Why would they spend time on obsolete windows versions? I've run Win 11 for almost 3 years.
@@bgezalBecause half of Windows users have a brain and stick to Windows 10.
it's on windows 10 too
@@bgezal I mean Windows 10 has still a market share of 68%. Windows 11 is merely at 28%. So it's far from "obsolete".
I don’t think a single one of these features is Win11 exclusive, they’ll just be found in different places
Hello, james
How to free up other in mac i deleted 5 gbs and turned off and on my mac and other took those 5GB away in less than a 5 minutes.
Um.. Valorant takes over 3 TB on my 1 TB drive
How to free up space? Install Linux
People actually have jobs and can't install linux. Suprising I know.
Bro C drive will get full regardless of how big it is
should have mentioned wiztree
You forgot
How to add or remove optional features on Windows 11
Here are the steps to manage optional features on your Windows 11 installation.
I don't think Satya wants to talk with you after you mentioned tiny11
I know but ill watch anyway
I heard didn't came from a trusted source is it like that? 👀
thanks bro soooooo much!!!!!!!!
I need this for mac
2:05 sponsor skip
I managed to cleanup 472mb thanks
How to get more storage in windows: Install more than one drive. Seriously how many builds do we see that only have one fairly small drive? On a "high end" build you might get two small drives.
3:13 No way that Windows 11 is bundled with Vivaldi now!
Especially with Windows 10 start menu and Windows XP wallpaper
Don't forget to delete System32 from your PC to get those extra gigs of storage.
You prune,System 32 MUST NOT BE GOTTEN RID OF OR IT WILL BRICK A COMPUTER ENTIRELY AND WILL MAKE IT TOTALLY UNUSABLE
You want to free up space? Start with Edge.
Then you go from there.
3:59 Hey, James!🤓
Remotely connect to a different computer with more storage.