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Hidden App Taking Up Over 100GB

Anonymous
2020-12-16T03:01:30+00:00

I believe the problem has something to do with a game that was installed through the xbox app in windows 10, Halo Master Chief Collection. I tried moving the app to an external hard drive to recover storage space but after transferring and uninstalling the app my storage is still showing 130GB used. In my apps manager it shows only about 2GB being used by visible apps. I have been obsessing over this for a few hours and can not figure out how to recover the missing storage space. Please help :(

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-01-14T18:48:42+00:00

    how did you make 7zip as admin to delete it?

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-12-16T03:30:24+00:00

    Hi Broogs, Welcome to Microsoft Community :)

    It's my pleasure to help you today.

    I’m sorry you’ve had to deal with this.

    I know how frustrating this may be for you.

    I would suggest using a utility such as:

    https://windirstat.net/

    It will scan your hard drive and highlight where the larges files/folders are, this will help you narrow down what is using up all the space.

    Source: Elise M

    https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/for...

    I hope it helps :)

    Sincerely,

    Juliet

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-12-16T04:05:01+00:00

    here is what its showing

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-12-16T04:00:10+00:00

    What shows up at "START, Settings, System, Storage, Show more categories"? Is a category extraordinarily huge? Then click it to see the folders it has. Finally, click any folder that is huge to examine it. You will have an opportunity to delete files & uninstall apps, but read the blurbs associated with them first. Or post back any question.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-12-16T03:58:58+00:00

    ok yes! I found it in programfiles>windowsapps>MSIXVC>

    file name 050FB4D...

    using 116 GB but it says I need permission from admin to delete??

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