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puckhead

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I have an old laptop (Lenovo) that I use just for downloads.

the issue is.... while the D drive has tons of room, the C Drive is creeping in on full for no particular reason.
I don't store any picture / movies / songs or anything on that drive, the programs on it are very minimal, and yet I only have about 7 of 30 GB free.

the "windows" file is almost 19 GB, which seems a tad bloated. "winsxs" takes up 12.4 GB of that.
how can I reduce the bulk of that, or alternatively make C: bigger?

I am trying to download a 12G file, and no matter how many times I clean or defrag the C drive, I can't get the required room.
The machine is somewhat volatile, so I have had some permissions issue when I try to put the destination file (using Vuze) directly onto D:


much obliged.
 

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Time to buy a new laptop you cheap bastard.

lol
 

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Can you change the download location to a USB drive or something? What's the permission issue for D: say?

Also, try CCLEANER or or some other utility like that to remove old files & other BS.

Making C: partition larger could be possible, but make sure you have a backup before you start making any changes there. If the full drive is already allocated a full restore would be necessary after partition sizes are set.


Change Vuze download location
 

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Time to buy a new laptop you cheap bastard.

lol
that's the back-up!
Can you change the download location to a USB drive or something? What's the permission issue for D: say?

Also, try CCLEANER or or some other utility like that to remove old files & other BS.

"error: failed to create parent directory D:blahblahblah"
it just can't get to the drive to write to.


I have made a folder on my home network, to get to this specific file, which seems to be working
but normally I don't like to DL to one of the main computers in the house, just in case there is anything malicious.
(thus the back-up laptop, Mooger, ya bum)
 

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pretty cheap these days to buy a "crap" computer on the cheap for this purpose.

But who am I to talk... I am a cheap bastard. :)
 

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You could clean out your temp directories like c:\temp and your user profile's temporary internet files. Vuze does drop things in Temp a lot, so like suppose you get a download that is 2 gb and it stops at 1.5. That 1.5 sits in Temp.

Also clean out your recycle bin that should clear up some space.

CC Clean is pretty helpful in regaining space.
 

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You could clean out your temp directories like c:\temp and your user profile's temporary internet files. Vuze does drop things in Temp a lot, so like suppose you get a download that is 2 gb and it stops at 1.5. That 1.5 sits in Temp.

Also clean out your recycle bin that should clear up some space.

CC Clean is pretty helpful in regaining space.

I've done all that.
it's something else in the windows file that seems to be accumulating.
 

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Can I suggest the Foxy Lady? $20 for a quality laptop dance. :thumb:
 

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Check whatever location your antivirus is saved in. Check to see if you have too many "backups" saved. I had about 200GB of backups stored in my laptop due to Norton Antivirus. Took me forever to find out what was taking up so much fucking space.
 

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you could wipe the whole thing clean and start fresh,I had to do that with an old PC of mine once,just save to disk or a flash drive anything you don't want to lose
 

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Check whatever location your antivirus is saved in. Check to see if you have too many "backups" saved. I had about 200GB of backups stored in my laptop due to Norton Antivirus. Took me forever to find out what was taking up so much fucking space.


This.

Norton sucks ass.
 

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Trying to make your C bigger, huh?

Surprised that didn't get caught by the board Spam filter :rolleyes:
 

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Check whatever location your antivirus is saved in. Check to see if you have too many "backups" saved. I had about 200GB of backups stored in my laptop due to Norton Antivirus. Took me forever to find out what was taking up so much fucking space.

Good call.

Also check your restore points and delete some old ones. There is also another temp directory in C:\Windows. Plus you can clear out c:\Windows\prefetch without trouble. It's not gonna take up a lot of space, but will slow your machine down.
 

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He probably has too many lingerie models saved to some folder he hid with some funky name so his wife wouldn't find it. And now he can't remember it.

:dhd:
 

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when you find it, email that shit to me.





















:cool:
 

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He probably has too many lingerie models saved to some folder he hid with some funky name so his wife wouldn't find it. And now he can't remember it.

:dhd:
no, I have those on the main laptop. :)
'movies' are burned to a large cache of DVDs, plus a few stored on the network drive under a deceptive folder name until they can be sorted :)

in the meantime, here's a good one for ya
DanielleSharpLoaded8.jpg
 

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Danielle Sharp, eh? Mmmmmm...
 

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Google searching her wasn't the greatest idea on my work PC, lol. :squeeze:
 
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