What s taking space on my computer? How can I check it?

Question

I have a small computer with 32 GB of storage. I have bareley anything on it apart from Office 365, Spotify and Google Chrome - However I am still only left with 3.59 GB of space now, and I have no clues what to get rid of to free more space so that I can download an 8 GB update for the PC.

Answer 1

If you are going to take the time to update the computer. I would go ahead and buy a 1tb external from Walmart for about 50 bucks. Get a free drive cloning software. Clone the drive you have to the external and boot from the external. Run your computer from it. I might even remove the power cord to the small drive and use it if you had problems with the external.

Answer 2

Windows + Office + Spotify. Right there is your answer



How much music have you downloaded to use Spotify offline? Music takes up tons of space.



If there are other software programs you have installed, they eat your space too.



32GB is ridiculously small for modern day usage. Just windows itself eats up most of that.





You need to buy a bigger hard drive or an external hard drive if you want to get out of this problem. Anyone who saves music, pictures, or videos to their hard drive has got to have a large hard drive or else an external drive to adequately use either of these.

Answer 3

Have you deleted your cokkies, and history latley?

Answer 4

Hard Drive and ram

Answer 5

delete yur porn collection to see faster speeds

Answer 6

Sounds to me like you have something like a Chromebook why don't you power wash it and start over

Answer 7

Your small computer must be ancient by PC desktop / laptop standards; MS O-365 pretty much has invaded your 32 Gb. drive.



Solution? Obtain a COMPATIBLE--and way larger hard drive ( 700 Gb. to maybe 2 or 3 terrabytes ).



Oh....and you might seek to upgrade your processor and RAM memory slots ( the more on both, the better ).



However, given the close, competitive pricing on individual PC components, overhaul upgrading may cost MORE than just buying a new PC or laptop, and retire your small 32 Gb. hard drive computer.



A good start towards looking into DIY upgrading is pricewatch.com

Answer 8

go to ur C drive right click look for something that says clean disk click on that and it will remove anything it finds and delete it off the C drive

Answer 9

Well it's pretty much impossible for us to tell you what to remove. You don't mention personal documents, pictures, and music and those items could be put on a DVD. However, why not download the file to a flash drive. Since it's an 8 GB it most likely won't fit on any of the 8 GB flash drives. So get a 16 GB flash drive and down load the update onto it and then you can run it from the flash drive. Hope this helps.

Answer 10

Windows is quite large by itself and Office 365 is easily 15-20GB just by itself.



Anyways, look for a Directory Tree application. This lets you visually see how large directories are on your disk. There's many free ones.

Answer 11

In the computer icon on windows screen

Answer 12

Remove bob and vegena pics

Answer 13

whose computer after 2000 has < 32gb? I'd replace it. or at least replace the drive that's tiny even by linux standards. on windoze? forget it!

Answer 14

Listen to ZeroZorg

Answer 15

Replace it with a larger drive. You need anywhere from 500 gigs to one terabyte of memory on your computer for storage any more. One of my games takes up several gigs.

Answer 16

Well that's 32 GB for you; if the machine is one-piece with eMMC you are stuck, maybe SD card and a little-known and under-utilized Windows setting might help. But my machine is a roomy M.2 type even though it started out as run-of-mill Chromebook.



Windows can stuff itself as small as 16 but 32 or below is just too little for other major installations. And I am in the same boat for a half-dead tablet that I occasionally use in the washroom.

Answer 17

Office365 is HUGH-HOO-HUGE. You should get rid of it and use the cloud apps if you only have 32GB. Spotify can get pretty unwieldy too if you save your songs offline and you have a huge music collection. I doubt Google Chrome is a problem as long as you keep things minimal and don't have too many add-ons or other bells and whistles.

Answer 18

Get info on hard drive

Answer 19

Check storage

Answer 20

see what you have on the computer

Answer 21

Delete temporary internet files

Answer 22

I recommend you to buy a 1Tb hard drive

Answer 23

Would a SD card hold infomation from a hard drive

Answer 24

windows+R. That worked on my laptop

Answer 25

Try pushing windows key then R at the same time and then searching %temp% and deleting everything and if it gives j the option to skip some skip them and leave them don’t delete them

Answer 26

You'd have to check yourself. A good possibility is that it is cache files from those apps, particularly Chrome. Though honestly 32GB for a computer is pretty much nothing.



As far as checking you'd have to go through the files & whatnot, like Documents, Downloads, Pictures, Music, etc. Could & should try using online storage if you can where you can.

Answer 27

Check the hard drive through the file explorer.

Answer 28

Go to start, search, run, msinfo32



Go to start, search, run, diskmgmt.msc



Go to start, search, run, taskmgr



You can also go into the command prompt and view the volume with diskpart, diskpart is an extremely powerful tool though so I’d use diskpart listdisk select disk 0 list volume 0 exit in the command prompt, but by using Microsoft word or office you are getting torchured to pay 399.00, 499.99, 599.00 for a heavy application that has a variety of features and has programmers moving like a snail developing a better user friendly experience,



Ibreoffice on the other hand has a multitude of applications with many features included and is growing at exponential rate, not to mention it’s free and lightweight... my hat I should off to libre office



Get rid of micro soft office and get libre office writer, spreadsheet, calculator, etc



Going into more statistical data



Office 365 Basic can run on 2GB RAM on PCs. HDD space for running Office 365 home should be 3GB, requires that your processor handles 1GHz processor of any make



Libreoffice requires 256 MB RAM (512 MB RAM recommended) Up to 1.5 GB available hard disk space



That’s quite an outlook giving most a new demeanor on professionalism, see why a lot of people switch... I find it completely obsurd to charge for such an over powered application, but that’s what you get having a Microsoft operating system



according to hardware manufacturers,



1 GB = 1000 MB = (1000 x 1000) KB = (1000 x 1000 x 1000) = 1000000000 Bytes



But in reality



1 GB = 1024 MB = (1024 x 1024) KB = (1024 x 1024 x 1024) = 1073741824 Bytes.



Think of Microsoft word as a greedy obese liberal, when libreoffice is a civil resident of a small community, while the liberal has strict guidelines and requires money, the civil residential patriot sees the world for what it is and pays it forward to help someone in need with a wide variety of options above the liberal, but hey that’s just my outlook... with that being said, libre office can handle everything Microsoft has and more



If you start, search, run, sysdm.cpl you can speed up your system a bit by setting custom



Or you could also view the storage capacity of a program with start, search, run, appwiz.cpl or compmgmt.msc



If perhaps you got tired of ms running in the background and not sure how to pause it, do a start, search, run, services.msc



As an alternative lubntu is a lightweight linux distribution, just download the iso, burn it to a disc and install it and your pc will run faster, cost virtually nothing, and you have a large community of tech savvy individuals behind you in askubuntu, linux stackexchange, quora, more



Linux allows the user to choose when to update, what to update, modify, del at anytime and diskspace is easily viewed with fdisk -l, cfdisk, df -h, free, etc, I give franks post 3 thumbs up, no user should be forced to update their system at Microsoft’s conveyance

Answer 29

Check the hard drive through the file explorer. That should help.