Shrinking disk, Windows Updates?
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I have a Win8 PC with a Win7 virtual machine (VirtualBox) where I do development because we use VS 6.0. (Yes, I know, hard to believe.) Anyway, each time I do a build, I have to delete other builds, to free up disk space. It is getting to the point where soon I will have no free disk space. It looks as if Windows Updates are expanding the OS. Is there anything I can do? Is there a folder with unwanted OS update files? I can expand the virtual disk, from the current 80GB, but that is only a temporary fix for obvious reasons. I have to have SQL server etc on the virtual machine, which take up quite a few GB.
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I have a Win8 PC with a Win7 virtual machine (VirtualBox) where I do development because we use VS 6.0. (Yes, I know, hard to believe.) Anyway, each time I do a build, I have to delete other builds, to free up disk space. It is getting to the point where soon I will have no free disk space. It looks as if Windows Updates are expanding the OS. Is there anything I can do? Is there a folder with unwanted OS update files? I can expand the virtual disk, from the current 80GB, but that is only a temporary fix for obvious reasons. I have to have SQL server etc on the virtual machine, which take up quite a few GB.
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I have a Win8 PC with a Win7 virtual machine (VirtualBox) where I do development because we use VS 6.0. (Yes, I know, hard to believe.) Anyway, each time I do a build, I have to delete other builds, to free up disk space. It is getting to the point where soon I will have no free disk space. It looks as if Windows Updates are expanding the OS. Is there anything I can do? Is there a folder with unwanted OS update files? I can expand the virtual disk, from the current 80GB, but that is only a temporary fix for obvious reasons. I have to have SQL server etc on the virtual machine, which take up quite a few GB.
Okay, I might have solved my own question. A utility called SpaceSniffer located a gigantic SQL server .MDF file. It looks like a service might be shoving data into it in the background.
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Take a good look around the disk to see what is using the space. Do you have an overflowing recycle bin?
Thanks. Unfortunately Windows Folder Properties were not accurate, missing 'hidden' files. SpaceSniffer has located them.
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I have a Win8 PC with a Win7 virtual machine (VirtualBox) where I do development because we use VS 6.0. (Yes, I know, hard to believe.) Anyway, each time I do a build, I have to delete other builds, to free up disk space. It is getting to the point where soon I will have no free disk space. It looks as if Windows Updates are expanding the OS. Is there anything I can do? Is there a folder with unwanted OS update files? I can expand the virtual disk, from the current 80GB, but that is only a temporary fix for obvious reasons. I have to have SQL server etc on the virtual machine, which take up quite a few GB.
Another short-term fix is to remove the downloaded files from Windows Update. Remove files in c:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download. A more better option is to us dism to clean up updated files. Look at http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/122262-windows-7-sp1-disk-cleanup-tool.html[^] to help. But make sure you have kb2852386 installed as it will allow you to clean up outdated files from your winsys. Summary: Used Disk Cleanup Elevated CMD
dism /online /cleanup-image /spsuperseded /hidesp