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A Windows 8 surprise

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    For quite some time C drive (Total space 80 GB) was struggling for free space. :sigh: It came to a point that it came down to few MBs. Tried everything i.e. deleting temp files, un-installing not so useful programs, even running tools to free space. It will go up by few hundred MBs and then back to square one. :confused: Now comes the surprise ! One fine morning (Couple of days back), suddenly free space jumped up to 14 GB :wtf: I am still trying to figure out the magic !! Any thoughts!?

    Thanks, Milind

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      For quite some time C drive (Total space 80 GB) was struggling for free space. :sigh: It came to a point that it came down to few MBs. Tried everything i.e. deleting temp files, un-installing not so useful programs, even running tools to free space. It will go up by few hundred MBs and then back to square one. :confused: Now comes the surprise ! One fine morning (Couple of days back), suddenly free space jumped up to 14 GB :wtf: I am still trying to figure out the magic !! Any thoughts!?

      Thanks, Milind

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      Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter
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      You uninstalled Windows 8...It's obvious!

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        For quite some time C drive (Total space 80 GB) was struggling for free space. :sigh: It came to a point that it came down to few MBs. Tried everything i.e. deleting temp files, un-installing not so useful programs, even running tools to free space. It will go up by few hundred MBs and then back to square one. :confused: Now comes the surprise ! One fine morning (Couple of days back), suddenly free space jumped up to 14 GB :wtf: I am still trying to figure out the magic !! Any thoughts!?

        Thanks, Milind

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        Your huge list of pending Windows Updates finally got installed?


        "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

        "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined" - Homer

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          For quite some time C drive (Total space 80 GB) was struggling for free space. :sigh: It came to a point that it came down to few MBs. Tried everything i.e. deleting temp files, un-installing not so useful programs, even running tools to free space. It will go up by few hundred MBs and then back to square one. :confused: Now comes the surprise ! One fine morning (Couple of days back), suddenly free space jumped up to 14 GB :wtf: I am still trying to figure out the magic !! Any thoughts!?

          Thanks, Milind

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          Blue Waffle
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          You deleted your porn history?

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            You deleted your porn history?

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            I thought we should be keeping that at safe and sound place where space shouldn't be an issue ! :) Not on C drive which is reserved for OS as it needs frequent updates/reinstallations !

            Thanks, Milind

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              For quite some time C drive (Total space 80 GB) was struggling for free space. :sigh: It came to a point that it came down to few MBs. Tried everything i.e. deleting temp files, un-installing not so useful programs, even running tools to free space. It will go up by few hundred MBs and then back to square one. :confused: Now comes the surprise ! One fine morning (Couple of days back), suddenly free space jumped up to 14 GB :wtf: I am still trying to figure out the magic !! Any thoughts!?

              Thanks, Milind

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              Paulo Augusto Kunzel
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              You got a 100gb drive and installed something else that was 6 gb?

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                For quite some time C drive (Total space 80 GB) was struggling for free space. :sigh: It came to a point that it came down to few MBs. Tried everything i.e. deleting temp files, un-installing not so useful programs, even running tools to free space. It will go up by few hundred MBs and then back to square one. :confused: Now comes the surprise ! One fine morning (Couple of days back), suddenly free space jumped up to 14 GB :wtf: I am still trying to figure out the magic !! Any thoughts!?

                Thanks, Milind

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                The volume shadow service decided to get rid of some old crap? Have a look at vssadmin from the command prompt. (Not sure whether that's something it'll do on its own...every once in a while, before I back up my VMs, I have vssadmin delete shadow copies, then followed by shrinking my dynamically expanding disks--very often, I'll find that an 80GB VHD drops down in size to 40GB)

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