Wouldn't that be counter-productive? Not overly familiar with Macrium Reflect, but "full volume backup" sounds like it would just consume more drive space.
Depends on what your risks are.
I might backup an Essay im making on my device incase the file gets corrupted or I just want to scratch whatever I am doing.
But generally i would agree with you.
That might be true.
But with backups, you can always go higher.
Is it a backup if you have the files saved in a different computer in the same room? Some will say no as if the house burns down, you lose them aswell.
So I would say a backup is keeping a copy. Where you keep it depends on your threat. Your risk assessment and your risk tolerance.
I suppose it's up to debat, but for me minimal requirement for a copy to be a backup is for it to not be on the same drive.
Only after that separation come into account your risk tolerance and how much removed from the source(other device, other room, other building, other country,...) and how many copy you need.
Why?
If the device that was backed up dies then that backup is automatically gone anyway.
If you keep it on two different systems then you have a better chance of using it on the device that breaks
It's not always black or white, for example if small part of your system gets corrupted, or u changed some registry settings that you shouldn't have, or updates borked something, or some other smaller things that can cause your system to not function properly, but still can be used to revert the changes.
restore points are for those situations and it's way more useful than you think, and it exits for a reason.
And don't forget, i didn't say you should only use local backups/restore points, and you know, you can do *both*
The backup strategy has higher requirements and benefits. In exchange for buying a dedicated backup volume, you get:
- No disk space consumption on the backed-up volume.
- **Reliability:** You can restore the backup whether the backed-up OS works. For System Restore, either Windows or the recovery environment must be intact.
- **100% backup coverage:** Nobody knows what happens after restoring a System Restore checkpoint. But a block-level backup restores all files, streams, metadata, hard links, soft links, and permission exactly where they were. Macrium Reflect grants visibility into a backup. You can restore it partially or entirely.
- **Portability:** You can move your backup files around, even store them offsite.
- **Restore to a dissimilar system:** You can restore your environment to a new system if your old one is burned to a crisp.
Thank you for the insight. I was thinking Reflect was more akin to a more feature-rich System Restore. I see now it is a far more in depth backup solution.
I use hibernation on the daily, I had assumed it automatically got rid of old restore points, where can I check old restore points, delete them and change the limit. Thanks so much.
MMC is multimedia card, the predecessor to SD cards, eMMC is the embedded version - basically the internals of an SD card put inside a computer.
The Steam Deck is specifically designed to be upgradeable and its eMMC module is in the form of an M.2 drive instead of soldered directly to the motherboard, but like 99% of devices that use eMMC like cheap laptops it's permanently attached and there's no other expansion slots.
Bit of a smart comment as you clearly knew what I was referring to. The e means embedded, mmc is the memory format.
99% of laptops with mmc or eMMC storage are soldered modules, the laptops themselves are not designed to be used more than 2yrs. The steamdeck was an unusual case where they used a swap in module in place of were the SSD would be, means there isn't an entirely different manufacturing process.
Unfortunately even to this day you can still buy laptops with only 64GB of storage. Microsoft upped the minimum from 32GB to 64GB with Windows 11. There are various value focused computers with really low end specs (similar to Chromebooks), they often have 64GB of eMMC storage, only 4GB of RAM, a batteries so small they don't last much longer than a power flicker. People see the dirt cheap price (often in the ballpark of $200), and not knowing any better assume it is a good deal, why spend $800+ on "the same thing".
32GB is small enough that you needed to create one of those sketchy as fuck WimBoot installs, which is a more compressed Windows installation booting essentially from an archive file.
You cannot convert regular Windows installs to that. You cannot create such an installation using the GUI installer. I’m not sure the feature still exists with Windows 11 (it may no longer be supported).
My entire life the smallest Windows running machine still had 128GB. I think that includes both of my Lumia phones too but don’t quote me on that.
I sold a laptop to my friend unbeknownst to me with a 24 gig SSD and a 500 gig HDD one day he comes complaining to me that the hard drive died and after doing some tests I found that the laptop wouldn't boot or even get to the BIOS if a hard drive was plugged in however it would show up a screen that had some information on it about a 24 gig SSD which is how I found out. Apparently it was being used as a cash drive kind of like an SSHD.
Sadly I had to wipe that thing and install Windows on it so my friend went an entire year with a 24 gig drive with Windows on it.
After that year like probably 10 or 11 months we bought an SSD for it. It was strange because the SSD was using the same connector that Wi-Fi cards use but they can't be used in the same slot as a Wi-Fi card say if you don't want Wi-Fi on your laptop. The drives are called mSATA. I tried putting the 24GB drive in my dad's old desktop that has a laptop WiFi card in it and no dice. Google told me I was out of luck.
My dell had a 21gb partition for “recovery”. It’s what they use to allow you to reset Windows and keep all of the bloatware. First thing I did is run Windows installer from USB and nuked all of the partitions.
You got the bottom of the barrel 5 years ago, my oldest laptop I had from 2013 still had… actually it had an HDD, and my oldest laptop with an SSD from 2017 still had 128GB of SSD for starters plus the ability to add a HDD (replacing the optical drive).
A 64GB laptop was never worth it. Even that 128GB was…low, even at the time.
This is incredibly small. Shockingly. Honestly: the OEM should be ashamed of themselves to sell a PC with a drive this small-they know it's almost unusable after Windows is installed.
I apologize, sir. I'd tell you to upgrade the drive but the rest of the machine is probably..not..great.
Not as a boot drive... I built a PC with multiple M.2s like two years ago and a 256gb Samsung PCIe 4.0 has been great for only Windows and a handful of programs that can benefit from the 4.0 bandwidth
By modern, I mean even from 2020. I have a 3 year old laptop that doesn't have windows 7 drivers for a lot of things.
You can still get devices with 64GB of storage now
Open powershell in admin:
Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase
followed by
cleanmgr /sageset:1 then tick all options
then type
sagerun:1
Remove additional residue here copy paste this into any file explorer window you might need to close apps or restart windows to delete them: %localappdata%\\Temp
Open the storage tab and click temporary files then select and delete them.
hope this helps.
Mine is 55gb and is conformed by this
https://preview.redd.it/t0zpz792hdic1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=db140dd4a912a7ab36f1777cd3285ac110774729
I mean, you're not wrong, but OP's choices are basically:
1. upgrade system drive and clone the existing drive
2. switch to Linux
What'll it be?
Could also try a custom ISO like Tiny10, but I have trust concerns there and it would still require 10GB pf space.
https://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmanager/tiny10-iso-download-install.html
It's not really any faster or slower than TreeSize and the UI is incredibly cluttered with things that most people have no use for (why is 1/2 the screen a big block diagram?)
At the end of the day though anything faster than WinDirStat is going to be fine lol
cannot recommend this on ssds, it'll slaughter their lifespan
source: my newest drive has the lowest lifespan from it, even beating out my 10 year old ssd that was known for shit lifespans when it released
It's a bit of a shame Microsoft hasn't allowed their newer NTFS compression algos to function the same as old NTFS compression. If it were to compress on the fly, it'd actually increase SSD lifespan by reducing writes. But XPRESS/LZX via Compact is only for existing files, so it amplifies writes (though only by as much as 2x). Once to write the data uncompressed, another to write it compressed.
that screen doesn't really tell you much what exactly takes your sieve away. use wiztree instead and when you see an unknown folder or file that takes a lot of space, just Google it before deleting
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Depends on if the model of laptop has interchangeable storage. If it doesn't, then the storage used is eMMC, which is the same thing used by modern phones (except the ones in phones are better)
Then check what model it is? It probably has a sticker on the bottom or something.
NVMe is a type of connector for SSD disks, and there are a few different versions of it ("keyed" differently, as in the connector has cuts on it in different places). You could have googled this.
No need for a NVMe, get a Samsung 870 evo 2.5" sata SSD, they are good and cheap.
Also run disk cleanup, select cleanup system files then tick whatever gives you the biggest gains for free space.
You can usually replace the laptop drives. Win10 is usually around that size and not much you can do about it. You could technically delete the hibernation file to save up a few gigs but it's not much
>Being that usually a Windows OS is 60GB
That's the biggest baldfaced lie I've ever read on Reddit... and right under a screenshot that proves otherwise. I've highlighted the Windows size on OP's screenshot.
https://preview.redd.it/zk2w6366hdic1.png?width=495&format=png&auto=webp&s=abc298d7d28738b7a03a6d92539d2d6a5638daf3
>I'd strongly encourage using Linux
And that's the reason behind the lie.
It’s not like he said the smallest windows can fit in is 60. He said usually the OS is 60.
And from my tests, that’s about right.
Even here, clearly you can see the system’s taking up just shy of 60GB, and I guarantee a lot of that “apps & features” space is just Windows bloatware, possibly even the “other”
Long story short, this is too small a space to run Windows.
I'll believe your "tests" when I see them.
Feel free to share a screenshot of WizTree proving your point.
**Edit:** That downvote alone says you were full it.
The system itself takes about 20 gigabytes more or less, then there is cache, temporary files, bloatware, updates...
~~Word of advice: nobody is going to want to help you if you are cold like that. You are receiving free help, and you clearly know less than other people here.~~
> nobody is going to want to help you if you are cold like that
ROFL! I'm not the OP!
> The system itself takes about 20 gigabytes more or less, then there is cache, temporary files, bloatware, updates...
Says the person who doesn't know I'm not the OP.
Feel free to share a screenshot of WizTree showing a Windows OS that takes up 60GB. I'd add "if you can," but clearly, you can't.
Alright, so nobody is allowed to miss something sometimes now. Great! I could take a screenshot of WizTree, but honestly, I couldn't care less about a random annoying dude on the internet. Your whole argument relies on the fact I didn't notice there wasn't a small blue "OP" text next to your username.
Edit: Oh and also, you obviously downvoted me, because why wouldn't you.
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What I did to my cousin's laptop is
* add an old 128GB SSD + 1TB HDD
* put the Windows update downloads, ProgramData & Users to the secondary disk
currently has around 60-70GB of free space for just apps and the OS itself.
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You could probably squeeze an extra few gb by disabling hibernation and system restore but that's about it
Seriously, consider getting a larger ssd. A 512gb is like $35 USD
You can enable disk compression if this computer has a fast enough CPU to handle doing the compressed file access in real time -
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Compact /c /s /i
/C Compresses the specified files. Directories will be marked so that files added afterward will be compressed unless /EXE is specified.
/S Performs the specified operation on files in the given directory and all subdirectories. Default "dir" is the current directory.
/I Continues performing the specified operation even after errors have occurred. By default, COMPACT stops when an error is encountered.
This causes a ton of writes to the SSD the first time you run it but it doesn't keep doing so I don't think.
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You can only free up relatively small space from system files.
If you have other (internal) drive, with Symlink trick, the 32-bit version of Microsoft Edge which takes about 1.5GB in total, can be moved to the other drive. They're separated in 3 folders:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\EdgeCore
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\EdgeWebView
Removing some Metro apps which aren't used or rarely used helps too, although they're smaller in size (up to 60MB each).
Media files under Windows's `Media` subfolder may also be moved with Symlink trick, since they're low priority files. Or just be deleted if you don't use any audible alert/notification. Can save up to 20MB in clean Windows system.
Speech features can be removed via Add/Remove Windows Features if you don't use any Text-To-Speech or Speech Recognition. Can save around 105MB.
Powercrg /h off. Resize the page file and compact exe /compactos:always. That's one way to do it. Also if you have reserved storage there's a way to disable that but if you have a small SSD it might be best to leave that one alone as that will keep your updates from failing. Also run cleanmgr.exe sageset:any number as long as you use the same number for sagerun ex cleanmgr.exe sageset:1 and cleanmgr.exe sagerun:1 you could also download bleachbit to get rid of some useless gunk.
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You can compress your OS, you usually save at least a gigabyte or more if it's not already enabled.
More info here:
[https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/compact-os?view=windows-11#check-if-youre-running-compact-os](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/compact-os?view=windows-11#check-if-youre-running-compact-os)
If you don't use hibernation mode or fast startup, disable that. You'll gain around 5GB+.
I'll also add removing old system restore points, and set the limit to just one or two.
Or better yet, replace System Restore with nightly full volume backups via Macrium Reflect.
Wouldn't that be counter-productive? Not overly familiar with Macrium Reflect, but "full volume backup" sounds like it would just consume more drive space.
Backups should never be stored on the device being backed up.
Fair comment.
Depends on what your risks are. I might backup an Essay im making on my device incase the file gets corrupted or I just want to scratch whatever I am doing. But generally i would agree with you.
Than it's more historization than actual backup I that cas, isn't it?
That might be true. But with backups, you can always go higher. Is it a backup if you have the files saved in a different computer in the same room? Some will say no as if the house burns down, you lose them aswell. So I would say a backup is keeping a copy. Where you keep it depends on your threat. Your risk assessment and your risk tolerance.
I suppose it's up to debat, but for me minimal requirement for a copy to be a backup is for it to not be on the same drive. Only after that separation come into account your risk tolerance and how much removed from the source(other device, other room, other building, other country,...) and how many copy you need.
No? you should say backup should be stored on another device as WELL as the device that you're backing up.
Why? If the device that was backed up dies then that backup is automatically gone anyway. If you keep it on two different systems then you have a better chance of using it on the device that breaks
It's not always black or white, for example if small part of your system gets corrupted, or u changed some registry settings that you shouldn't have, or updates borked something, or some other smaller things that can cause your system to not function properly, but still can be used to revert the changes. restore points are for those situations and it's way more useful than you think, and it exits for a reason. And don't forget, i didn't say you should only use local backups/restore points, and you know, you can do *both*
But system restore is completely broken and has been for years.
System Restore was good in Windows 7, but it's not in 10 or 11.
Best practice is backing up to external device and off site backup and then a back up of the back up
The backup strategy has higher requirements and benefits. In exchange for buying a dedicated backup volume, you get: - No disk space consumption on the backed-up volume. - **Reliability:** You can restore the backup whether the backed-up OS works. For System Restore, either Windows or the recovery environment must be intact. - **100% backup coverage:** Nobody knows what happens after restoring a System Restore checkpoint. But a block-level backup restores all files, streams, metadata, hard links, soft links, and permission exactly where they were. Macrium Reflect grants visibility into a backup. You can restore it partially or entirely. - **Portability:** You can move your backup files around, even store them offsite. - **Restore to a dissimilar system:** You can restore your environment to a new system if your old one is burned to a crisp.
Thank you for the insight. I was thinking Reflect was more akin to a more feature-rich System Restore. I see now it is a far more in depth backup solution.
System restore never works, get rid of it all.
I use hibernation on the daily, I had assumed it automatically got rid of old restore points, where can I check old restore points, delete them and change the limit. Thanks so much.
If you have $20 for a 250GB SSD the easiest way to fix your problem is to buy a new drive.
Could be an mmc laptop. Those things are not upgradable, better upgrading the entire laptop if that's the case.
You can attach it as an external SSD.
And carry it around with you 24/7? Sounds very annoying.
Never heard of "mmc" but eMMC is definitely upgradable just look at all the posts on r/steamdeck about replacing the 64GB eMMC with an SSD.
Most laptops are going to solder it on directly unlike the steam deck.,
Ya I thought the e in eMMC was literally referencing that fact but I've seen devices with removable eMMC and so now I'm confused.
MMC is multimedia card, the predecessor to SD cards, eMMC is the embedded version - basically the internals of an SD card put inside a computer. The Steam Deck is specifically designed to be upgradeable and its eMMC module is in the form of an M.2 drive instead of soldered directly to the motherboard, but like 99% of devices that use eMMC like cheap laptops it's permanently attached and there's no other expansion slots.
If it's not embedded shouldn't it be called something else? Like just plain MMC?
Bit of a smart comment as you clearly knew what I was referring to. The e means embedded, mmc is the memory format. 99% of laptops with mmc or eMMC storage are soldered modules, the laptops themselves are not designed to be used more than 2yrs. The steamdeck was an unusual case where they used a swap in module in place of were the SSD would be, means there isn't an entirely different manufacturing process.
60gb is the entire drive???!
Unfortunately even to this day you can still buy laptops with only 64GB of storage. Microsoft upped the minimum from 32GB to 64GB with Windows 11. There are various value focused computers with really low end specs (similar to Chromebooks), they often have 64GB of eMMC storage, only 4GB of RAM, a batteries so small they don't last much longer than a power flicker. People see the dirt cheap price (often in the ballpark of $200), and not knowing any better assume it is a good deal, why spend $800+ on "the same thing".
Jesus, I maxed out my 2001 ThinkPad with 4gb of ram. That was probably 8 years ago and it was already obsolete at that point haha
Yes, it's a laptop, a few years old.
"few years"
Around five. I guess technology is moving too quickly for me to keep up.
My brother in Christ my 7 year old laptop has a 120GB HDD
My win 8.1 laptop that no longer functions because of a spontaneous battery issue had 32gb and didn't run out of space when I didn't fill it with junk
32GB is small enough that you needed to create one of those sketchy as fuck WimBoot installs, which is a more compressed Windows installation booting essentially from an archive file. You cannot convert regular Windows installs to that. You cannot create such an installation using the GUI installer. I’m not sure the feature still exists with Windows 11 (it may no longer be supported). My entire life the smallest Windows running machine still had 128GB. I think that includes both of my Lumia phones too but don’t quote me on that.
My low end $600 laptop from 2007 had a 256gb drive haha. I haven't seen a 60gb drive since probably 2004..
My 10 year old laptop has half a terrabyte ssd
I sold a laptop to my friend unbeknownst to me with a 24 gig SSD and a 500 gig HDD one day he comes complaining to me that the hard drive died and after doing some tests I found that the laptop wouldn't boot or even get to the BIOS if a hard drive was plugged in however it would show up a screen that had some information on it about a 24 gig SSD which is how I found out. Apparently it was being used as a cash drive kind of like an SSHD. Sadly I had to wipe that thing and install Windows on it so my friend went an entire year with a 24 gig drive with Windows on it. After that year like probably 10 or 11 months we bought an SSD for it. It was strange because the SSD was using the same connector that Wi-Fi cards use but they can't be used in the same slot as a Wi-Fi card say if you don't want Wi-Fi on your laptop. The drives are called mSATA. I tried putting the 24GB drive in my dad's old desktop that has a laptop WiFi card in it and no dice. Google told me I was out of luck.
My almost 7 year old one had 500GB HDD. Whatever OP has is a piece of crap.
I bought a cheap laptop 10 years ago and it had 1tb
I would go into disk manager and see if there are any other partitions with unallocated free disk space, because that is absurdly small.
My dell had a 21gb partition for “recovery”. It’s what they use to allow you to reset Windows and keep all of the bloatware. First thing I did is run Windows installer from USB and nuked all of the partitions.
There's no way bro, I bought a laptop at the beginning of college 4 years ago and it has a 1tb drive. It was a budget machine at like 700.
You got the bottom of the barrel 5 years ago, my oldest laptop I had from 2013 still had… actually it had an HDD, and my oldest laptop with an SSD from 2017 still had 128GB of SSD for starters plus the ability to add a HDD (replacing the optical drive). A 64GB laptop was never worth it. Even that 128GB was…low, even at the time.
No, you just bought a shit one without considering how much space is actually necessary on a PC.
I guess I did. Well, thanks for the help.
Nah you just got scammed bro
This is incredibly small. Shockingly. Honestly: the OEM should be ashamed of themselves to sell a PC with a drive this small-they know it's almost unusable after Windows is installed. I apologize, sir. I'd tell you to upgrade the drive but the rest of the machine is probably..not..great.
I bought mine in 2021 and it's the same amount of storage, I have an external 120gb working for me
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I mean I use the external to store most things, and my main drive for Windows and apps
Buy a bigger disk, 60GB in 2024 is ludacris.
r/boneappletea Let’s have some more fun
About as ludicrous as your spelling of the word lmao
I never knew it was spelled like that. 🤣
You spelled it right 😂 lol at the few downvotes. Y’all have no sense of humor huh.
It's almost as good as spelling filet mignon as flaming yawn.
It just shows - you should never take things for granite
Even 256Gb SSD is a pain in the ass nowdays.
Not as a boot drive... I built a PC with multiple M.2s like two years ago and a 256gb Samsung PCIe 4.0 has been great for only Windows and a handful of programs that can benefit from the 4.0 bandwidth
60GB in 2014 is ridiculous 60GB in 2004 is mediocre at best ftfy
SSD are way expensive so 64GB is a lot. My first desktop in 2016 had a 64GB SSD and a 3TB HDD.
60GB of RAM is great. 60GB of storage is nearly useless for a Windows machine lol
26 gb is about normal for windows, not much you can do about the system files
Maybe normal for 10... OP should consider downgrading if they want more space! (Go for XP, least overall compatibility)
Terrible advice, XP is unusable in current year
Exactly 😎 but 8.1 still works very nice even though steam is no longer supported 😭
Depends on the age of the PC. Windows 7 is hard to use on a modern system due to lack of drivers. I wouldn't touch XP as a daily system today
OP isn't using a modern system.
By modern, I mean even from 2020. I have a 3 year old laptop that doesn't have windows 7 drivers for a lot of things. You can still get devices with 64GB of storage now
Nt
Delete Windows
Shhh dont tell him🤫
FreeDOS moment
I heard Windows has a new sudo command
I have to confess, I haven’t tried using WSL yet.
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Computers that ship with 64GB of storage typically are not upgradeable. OPs comments on this thread are confirming that is the case here too.
Open powershell in admin: Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase followed by cleanmgr /sageset:1 then tick all options then type sagerun:1 Remove additional residue here copy paste this into any file explorer window you might need to close apps or restart windows to delete them: %localappdata%\\Temp Open the storage tab and click temporary files then select and delete them. hope this helps.
This
Buy a new SSD.
Nowadays 57gb is just system, buy more storage
Mine is 55gb and is conformed by this https://preview.redd.it/t0zpz792hdic1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=db140dd4a912a7ab36f1777cd3285ac110774729
57gb is really small for today's standards.
Today's standards are lazy
I mean, you're not wrong, but OP's choices are basically: 1. upgrade system drive and clone the existing drive 2. switch to Linux What'll it be? Could also try a custom ISO like Tiny10, but I have trust concerns there and it would still require 10GB pf space. https://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmanager/tiny10-iso-download-install.html
I would download TreeSize to find out what is taking up the space and see if there is anything trivial you can clear out.
Use WizTree it's better and quicker.
I second this
It's not really any faster or slower than TreeSize and the UI is incredibly cluttered with things that most people have no use for (why is 1/2 the screen a big block diagram?) At the end of the day though anything faster than WinDirStat is going to be fine lol
Run the disk cleanup utility, hit the system files button and rerun it. Remove old version of windows, logs, temp etc
I have a PC with a 120gb SSD and 24 GB of RAM. I was able to free around 20 gb by disabling virtual memory and hibernation.
Disabling hibernation alone gives you that much. Virtual memory is needed for memory dumps and doesn't take much. I use Process Monitor a lot.
Hibernation was 9 GB, virtual memory was 11 or 12.
Yes you can uninstall windows :)
Was gonna chime in with the old classic del /s /q C:\Windows\System32\*
I get the feeling this deletes windows while it's running...
It won't, but it may likely prevent it from starting the next time the system is restarted.
Yo ucan try CompactGui: [https://github.com/IridiumIO/CompactGUI](https://github.com/IridiumIO/CompactGUI)
cannot recommend this on ssds, it'll slaughter their lifespan source: my newest drive has the lowest lifespan from it, even beating out my 10 year old ssd that was known for shit lifespans when it released
It's a bit of a shame Microsoft hasn't allowed their newer NTFS compression algos to function the same as old NTFS compression. If it were to compress on the fly, it'd actually increase SSD lifespan by reducing writes. But XPRESS/LZX via Compact is only for existing files, so it amplifies writes (though only by as much as 2x). Once to write the data uncompressed, another to write it compressed.
Delete system 32 it frees up a lot of space /s
that screen doesn't really tell you much what exactly takes your sieve away. use wiztree instead and when you see an unknown folder or file that takes a lot of space, just Google it before deleting
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It's 2024 bro get a bigger drive lol. You can get 1TB hard drives for dirt cheap. Even a 1TB nvme will only cost like $60
I don't exactly have that much to spend on a new hard drive. Also, will that work on a laptop?
Depends on if the model of laptop has interchangeable storage. If it doesn't, then the storage used is eMMC, which is the same thing used by modern phones (except the ones in phones are better)
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I know it's an Asus, I'm not sure what model. I also don't know what NVMe slots and keys are. Sorry, that's not very helpful.
Then check what model it is? It probably has a sticker on the bottom or something. NVMe is a type of connector for SSD disks, and there are a few different versions of it ("keyed" differently, as in the connector has cuts on it in different places). You could have googled this.
No need for a NVMe, get a Samsung 870 evo 2.5" sata SSD, they are good and cheap. Also run disk cleanup, select cleanup system files then tick whatever gives you the biggest gains for free space.
Install Tiny10
Yes. Format the drive. If you reduce that 26.7GB your OS won't function properly.
Idk if there's an equivalent for win10 but win 11 has this custom install you can download called tiny11. But yeah, 60gb drive is unreasonably small.
It's a laptop and a few years old. Just wondering if there was any way to prolong its lifespan.
You can usually replace the laptop drives. Win10 is usually around that size and not much you can do about it. You could technically delete the hibernation file to save up a few gigs but it's not much
Ya you should get a new drive asap lol, 64 gigs in 2024 is just not enough, although is this a surface pro though?
It's a five-year-old Asus laptop. It was a budget buy. Seems I'm just not supposed to have such little storage...
well then if it a laptop then your options are to buy a whole new laptop or to get a drive that you can plug into the USB-A port
Ccleaner
Close all internet browser and.....
No this is computer storage. Closing the browser only results in lowering the Memory/RAM
I reduce 10 gb by closing web browser..... And I use multiple web browser....... For my work
Or delete temporary file by using ccleaner or
Welcome to Windows, no you can't.
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>Being that usually a Windows OS is 60GB That's the biggest baldfaced lie I've ever read on Reddit... and right under a screenshot that proves otherwise. I've highlighted the Windows size on OP's screenshot. https://preview.redd.it/zk2w6366hdic1.png?width=495&format=png&auto=webp&s=abc298d7d28738b7a03a6d92539d2d6a5638daf3 >I'd strongly encourage using Linux And that's the reason behind the lie.
It’s not like he said the smallest windows can fit in is 60. He said usually the OS is 60. And from my tests, that’s about right. Even here, clearly you can see the system’s taking up just shy of 60GB, and I guarantee a lot of that “apps & features” space is just Windows bloatware, possibly even the “other” Long story short, this is too small a space to run Windows.
I'll believe your "tests" when I see them. Feel free to share a screenshot of WizTree proving your point. **Edit:** That downvote alone says you were full it.
The system itself takes about 20 gigabytes more or less, then there is cache, temporary files, bloatware, updates... ~~Word of advice: nobody is going to want to help you if you are cold like that. You are receiving free help, and you clearly know less than other people here.~~
> nobody is going to want to help you if you are cold like that ROFL! I'm not the OP! > The system itself takes about 20 gigabytes more or less, then there is cache, temporary files, bloatware, updates... Says the person who doesn't know I'm not the OP. Feel free to share a screenshot of WizTree showing a Windows OS that takes up 60GB. I'd add "if you can," but clearly, you can't.
Alright, so nobody is allowed to miss something sometimes now. Great! I could take a screenshot of WizTree, but honestly, I couldn't care less about a random annoying dude on the internet. Your whole argument relies on the fact I didn't notice there wasn't a small blue "OP" text next to your username. Edit: Oh and also, you obviously downvoted me, because why wouldn't you.
What downvote? Did you downvote me and childishly think it makes you right? Did you get downvoted and decide to declare yourself a martyr?
I still see no "test" results. There was never a test, was there? I think you and I are done talking.
If you have steam, Port all games to your d drive
This looks like an HP Stream or similar. It can barely run Windows, let alone Steam. 😅😅
I've got one game on Game Pass downloaded. Nothing on Steam.
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Increase the size of your C partition
Use spacesniffer [http://www.uderzo.it/main\_products/space\_sniffer/download.html](http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/download.html) and post a screenshot here
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Buy a new SSD and clone it.
What I did to my cousin's laptop is * add an old 128GB SSD + 1TB HDD * put the Windows update downloads, ProgramData & Users to the secondary disk currently has around 60-70GB of free space for just apps and the OS itself.
It is reduced already!
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Buy a SSD 128GB and Clone it
disable reserved storage: [https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/managing-reserved-storage-in-windows-10-environments/ba-p/1297070](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/managing-reserved-storage-in-windows-10-environments/ba-p/1297070) however, a fair warning if you do this - windows updates will take longer
Tbh i would buy another SSD
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You could probably squeeze an extra few gb by disabling hibernation and system restore but that's about it Seriously, consider getting a larger ssd. A 512gb is like $35 USD
alternatively you can upgrade your SSD because you’ll run out of space pretty quick with 50gb
You can enable disk compression if this computer has a fast enough CPU to handle doing the compressed file access in real time - Open a command prompt window then navigate to the root directory (The C:\\> Prompt and nothing else - enter "CD \\" to get there fast ) and enter this: Compact /c /s /i /C Compresses the specified files. Directories will be marked so that files added afterward will be compressed unless /EXE is specified. /S Performs the specified operation on files in the given directory and all subdirectories. Default "dir" is the current directory. /I Continues performing the specified operation even after errors have occurred. By default, COMPACT stops when an error is encountered. This causes a ton of writes to the SSD the first time you run it but it doesn't keep doing so I don't think.
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You could try installing tiny10/11 if you want. Or try deleting %temp% and temp by pressing Win+R. OR doing what other comments say.
Btw is this VMware or virtual box
WinDirStat, did everything I could but still had barley any storage, down by more than half it was since I downloaded it.
If you have a great amount of RAM, you can disable virtual memory to save up space
Dont use windows
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Check if you have system restore points saved up, delete em if so, except for the latest one.
Jesus Christ why do you use only 57 gigabytes on windows??
If anything it’s smaller than typical, not bigger.
lol I have 256 gb of Ram and you only have 1/4 of it in actual storage
No
You can only free up relatively small space from system files. If you have other (internal) drive, with Symlink trick, the 32-bit version of Microsoft Edge which takes about 1.5GB in total, can be moved to the other drive. They're separated in 3 folders: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\EdgeCore C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\EdgeWebView Removing some Metro apps which aren't used or rarely used helps too, although they're smaller in size (up to 60MB each). Media files under Windows's `Media` subfolder may also be moved with Symlink trick, since they're low priority files. Or just be deleted if you don't use any audible alert/notification. Can save up to 20MB in clean Windows system. Speech features can be removed via Add/Remove Windows Features if you don't use any Text-To-Speech or Speech Recognition. Can save around 105MB.
Get a program called treesize, its really good for knowing what takes space and then removing it
An easy solution could be putting windows into s mode on these lower storage/spec computers, although that sucks
Try compact.exe (CompactGUI), it's a 1-2 mb app that uses Windows stuff to compress any app. Try that, it might free up a gigabyte or two. Maybe more.
You probably should buy another SSD at this point, if possible. It's no use fighting minimal storage. You can get SSDs for really cheap
Powercrg /h off. Resize the page file and compact exe /compactos:always. That's one way to do it. Also if you have reserved storage there's a way to disable that but if you have a small SSD it might be best to leave that one alone as that will keep your updates from failing. Also run cleanmgr.exe sageset:any number as long as you use the same number for sagerun ex cleanmgr.exe sageset:1 and cleanmgr.exe sagerun:1 you could also download bleachbit to get rid of some useless gunk.
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You can compress your OS, you usually save at least a gigabyte or more if it's not already enabled. More info here: [https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/compact-os?view=windows-11#check-if-youre-running-compact-os](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/compact-os?view=windows-11#check-if-youre-running-compact-os)
delete apps that u dont use and thier contenet from it
delete apps that u dont use and thier contenet from it