Acer Aspire V showing very little free GB - please help me!

AndreTen

I have managed to make it work!

All the files are the same date - the day in July I tried a 'restore' and after an hour it told me 'restore' had failed.

I have deleted the first 20 files one by one as a test case and each time the free space has increased with no harm to my PC!

Should I now carry on and delete the remaining 229 files? Why did they appear in the first place - was it because the restore was not successful and it left files in place which would have disappeared had the restore worked?

Thanks again

Moggie

AndreTen
Well - all is ok. I got there eventually with your help. If nothing else I have learned to use 'snippet' and 'treesize'
Looking in Acer C now I have 52GB free of 95GB which is what it was approximately before all the problems.
Thanks again
Moggie

AndreTen
Well - all is ok. I got there eventually with your help. If nothing else I have learned to use 'snippet' and 'treesize'
Looking in Acer C now I have 52GB free of 95GB which is what it was approximately before all the problems.
Thanks again
Moggie

This is it!

In case you might be interested in viewing a screenshot of your hard drive's space diagram, check this out.
Open File Explorer, right click Acer (C), left click Properties, your Acer (C) will show up.
Mine looks like this


I believe it's also possible to increase your free space to more than 51.65GB as AndreTen has indicated.
I do system image backups at the end of the month, just before the beginning of the following month.
The reason is that Microsoft does updates more than once a month
I use Macrium Reflect Free (MRF).

Please also create a USB Recovery Drive
Create Recovery Drive in Windows 10 Windows 10 Performance Maintenance Tutorials

AndreTen
Thanks for that but..................have no idea where to find this file. Have looked in C and searched but no luck.

I have never looked for files before

Moggie

AndreTen
Is this where the file is?