I store all my data and the most of applications (those legally available in "portable" versions) on drive D:
and only use drive C:
for the Windows system and some heavily integrated applications like MS Office, Visual Studio, Adobe Reader, Flash Player etc. When I was using Windows XP, 50 GiB drive C:
was more than enough. Now, as I've mitigated to Windows 7, it hardly is.
Yesterday as I've checked, 7 GiBs were free on drive C:
. Then I've installed fresh Windows updates (which were just some tens of MiBs to download) and checked again: now there are only 2 GiBs free. Where have 5 GiBs gone?
PS: Don't be surprised my system installation takes actually that much: I've got Visual Studio and SQL Server with complete offline documentation library, but that doesn't explain where does free space disappear on simple Windows updates.
PPS: I use an augmented CCleaner version to clean my PC every day, so there are for sure no temporary internet files of recycle bin trash files taking the place.
c:
despite the fact I have configured it to put them on drived:
:-] And the second biggest folder isc:\windows\winsxs
. The solution I've used with Steam is to move it to drivec:
manually and replace its folder with a symlink. Now I wonder if I can do the same withwinsxs
... But I believe I can probably do the same with my Visual Studio offline help library which is quite big too...