how to clean up bloated windows folder


  1. shmu26
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    windows 10 pro x64 21H1
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    how to clean up bloated windows folder


    I have a windows 10 laptop with a bloated windows folder -- almost 40 gb.
    on my windows 10 desktop it is just 15 gb. that's reasonable.

    back to the problematic laptop: I ran windows disk cleanup, with system files cleanup, and it doesn't find anything big.

    I checked the temp folder inside windows folder, and it's small.

    The WinSxS folder is a reasonable size: 6 gb.

    I can't figure out what's bloating this windows folder. any ideas how to fix it?
    The system is upgraded from windows 8.1. But the windows.old folder is gone, so that's not it.
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  3. TairikuOkami
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    You can use this software to see, what is taking space:

    https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free

    Have you run an advanced disk cleanup? Run this command as admin, additionally component cleanup:

    cleanmgr /sageset:65535 & cleanmgr /sagerun:65535

    Dism.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase
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  4. shmu26
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    windows 10 pro x64 21H1
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    thanks. the command line didn't do anything new, but treesize found that my installer folder has 23 gb in it. How to safely clean it?
    edit: I ran PatchCleaner. I didn't have enough room to save the deleted files in another location, so I hope everything is okay. So far, so good. It freed up 20 gb. I am good now.
    TairikuOkami said:
    You can use this software to see, what is taking space:

    https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free

    Have you run an advanced disk cleanup? Run this command as admin, additionally component cleanup:

    cleanmgr /sageset:65535 & cleanmgr /sagerun:65535

    Dism.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase
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