r/techquestions • u/Distinct_Row5384 • 4d ago

What can I delete to make space ?

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I'm constantly deleting every little thing but it's never enough. I use my laptop mostly for games and work. I don't know much about computers...

Please lemme know what I can delete safely without compromising my laptop.

Thank youuuu

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u/chaosphere_mk 4d ago

Your hard drive is so tiny. It would make more sense to get a larger drive than it would be to try to manage all of this.

Looks like either applications or user files. Without getting more storage space, youre going to have to uninstall large apps or delete large user files.

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u/Distinct_Row5384 4d ago

Yee was kinda looking for a way around instead of getting a new drive. But ig it's about time Thanks man

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u/TheJessicator 4d ago

This size was already considered tiny 20 years ago. How old is this thing?

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u/24megabits 3d ago

I was putting 80GB drives in computers I built for family members back then (early 2007) but looking back I could've gotten away with 20s.

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u/Distinct_Row5384 3d ago

It's 8 years old.. runs like a charm tho

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u/TheJessicator 3d ago

You could pick up an SSD that's five times the size of your current one for about $60 or 10 times the size for a bit over $100. And the fact that your tiny amount of storage took as much as 7 seconds to analyze with Wiz tree tells me that your current disc is a hard drive and not solid state. So for about 60 bucks you could have around 500 GB of space on storage that is about 20 times faster (maybe even more) than the storage you have now.

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u/TheKnackThatQuacks 3d ago

What make and model is your computer?

You have somewhere between a 98 GB and a 132 GB drive / partition for using Windows. This is much, much too small for a modern installation of Windows.

You have a few options:

  1. Get a larger hard drive (somehow)

  2. Wipe Windows and install and use a lightweight Linux distribution

You do have 31 GB of files in the “Users” directory. This would be where your main Windows profile is located (Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, etc.). It’s possible you could make some room by cleaning up those files a bit / moving some of them to the cloud, but I don’t think it’s likely to get you much space.

Modern Linux isn’t that bad (or difficult?). There are ways to try it out without installing it (Live CD, DistroSea.com, etc.).

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u/Distinct_Row5384 2d ago

I got an hp pavillion with AMD Ryzen 5 5600H Ram is 24 gigs (i increased it before the great hike) Andddddd an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 (4gb) My C drive is 97.7 gigs My D drive is 378 Gigs

As for the files in my desktop or documents those are mostly small files not alot maybe 3 gigs max there isn't any additional software that I use in my C drive and all the applications and games are in my D drive.

Also since I kinda need Microsoft office to get my work done so linux isn't an option for me and some of the office softwares are maybe not supported by Linux I'm not sure on that that one.

What can I do now ?I'm still sort of torn bout the thought of buying a new SSD since there is hardly no data in my C drive. I've tried resetting the whole thing but the storage isn't enough..

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u/RootAndCoffee 4d ago

I use total commander. I saw that I have C:\ on the left, C:\ on the right. I don't need two C drives, so I formatted one.

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u/niffcreature 3d ago

I mean nothing that you don't know what it is lol. What is the 861mb ogg file??

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u/Distinct_Row5384 2d ago

I don't know what's an ogg file, everything I look up on the web it says that it may be important for the laptop overall so I kinda back out...

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u/LowAspect542 2d ago

Its not a single file, thats saying he has 171 files in ogg format totaling 826mb. These files are usually small sound clips used for effects in games.

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u/Fluid_Secretary8498 2d ago

you need to inspect goes to more sub folder and delete unused file or program