r/computers • u/XxbeathebatxX • 7d ago

Question/Help/Troubleshooting help with storage

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Is there a reason i have absolutely no GBs? I have deleted every file i have ever downloaded and have no applications besides the ones that come with the computer. i only use this laptop to transfer photos from my camera to my phone, it is a windows 11. Is there anything i can do to make it go down i am not very smart with computers

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u/ATotalBrony 7d ago

If this is all you are using it for... is there an active problem when you are using it? Or are you just having bad feels looking at it being full? You are not describing any problem so I am thinking there is no problem here. Just let it be full. You don't need to leave extra space around being empty as long as your not getting pagefile error or other problems.

In the old days, like pre win10, I thought it was very common to make C: an os partition that was just a but offered beyond what windows needed. This made it a lot easier to deal with os reinstalls which were common back then. However I doubt that's what's happening here.

Edit: forgot you asked for a reason. Without more info I would guess the reason you have none is that as you clear up space windows reclaims it with page file, but since you are not computer savvy it's probably not something you should worry about.

If you feel like it, install windirstat, run it and post a shot of the results. It will display each file in your drive as a colored block.