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Windows system taking up 190 gb on my C: drive

Anonymous
2019-09-12T02:08:14+00:00

I've noticed that I have been running low on space on my PC and after I uninstalled a few games it did little to help me I did some further investigation and used TreeSize and saw that most of my space is taken up by windows but more specifically the temp folder in there I already went through Start > Settings > System > Storage+ and removed those files but I did little to help also i uninstalled Forza 7 from my pc (97gb game) and I didn't get my free space back.

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-09-12T02:17:10+00:00

    Hi Kyle. I'm Greg, an installation specialist, 10 year Windows MVP, and Volunteer Guardian Moderator here to help you.

    Open Disk Cleanup, run it, when it reports choose the button for System Files, then run it again and clean up what it finds.

    Tutorial here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/d...

    If that doesn't help then use TreeSize to find the location of the Temp file, take ownership and delete the contents. See here how to Take Ownership of the folder, even add Take Ownership to your right click context menu:

    https://www.windowscentral.com/how-take-ownersh...

    I hope this helps. Feel free to ask back any questions and keep me posted. If you will wait to rate my post, I will keep working with you until it's resolved.

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