How do I figure out what's taking up so much space on my SSD?

[grandpab]

I can't figure this one out. My windows folder is 28gb, there's 1 game on it taking up 31gb, and out of 111gb I only have 19.3gb free. When I go through all the properties of the folders I can only get everything to add up to 65.3gb, so where's all this lost space at?

I've also cleared out all my downloads, my browsing history, etc, and I did a disk clean and deleted everything.

[.Nensec]

http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/

Works wonders for me

[Tripping]

WinDirStat is what I use! Fully free and legal too

[grandpab]

Sadly it's just showing me what I already know. Something I can't find is taking up a lot of space.



It doesn't add up to 98.6gb. There's 38gb missing...There's no hidden folders that I saw.

I know it wasn't always like this. I use to be able to have 2 games with enough space to not have to worry about the little things adding up, but as it is now there's only space for 1 game.

[2legit2quit]

That list only shows folders and sizes. My guess would be some system file in your root C:\ taking up the space. Hibernation file more than likely.

Control Panel > Folder Options > View

Uncheck hide protected operating system files
Select hidden files, folder, and drives.

Open up Windows Explorer and go to the root C:
Set the display to "details" and sort by "Size" descending

You should see a pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys

If it is neither of those, Google how to truncate your Windows Search Index.

[grandpab]

That list only shows folders and sizes. My guess would be some system file in your root C:\ taking up the space. Hibernation file more than likely.

Control Panel > Folder Options > View

Uncheck hide protected operating system files
Select hidden files, folder, and drives.

Open up Windows Explorer and go to the root C:
Set the display to "details" and sort by "Size" descending

You should see a pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys

If it is neither of those, Google how to truncate your Windows Search Index.

hiberfil.sys is 12.5gb, and pagefile.sys is 16.6gb

so can I just delete those?

[MasterNewbie]

Two things.

1) Disable hibernate. It is under power options if I remember right.

2) Reduce the size of your page file. I don't really remember where this is, though.

[Barnabas]

Put pagefile on another drive if you have one. You can also disable indexing if you aren't searching for emails and files constantly.

[grandpab]

Woo, that's better. Pagefile is only 2gb now. Hiberfil is gone too, and there's 45gb free'd up now. Thanks all. I'm pretty sure I did all this once but completely forgot about it all when I rebuilt my computer.

[Mormolyce]

Yeah I'd lay money it's your page file.

That or uninstall some games :P

[Taotaisei]

I see you've already found your major culprit but I like to use Sequoia View anytime there seems to be large amounts of space gone on my computer.