Measures to clean up hard disk

Windows tends to fill the hard disk with various things over time. Those are some recommendation to get disk space back.

• Clean up using PC Manager or CCleaner.

• Run TreeSize Free to determine large directories and files.

Specific directories:

• C:\System Volume Information: the directory contains disk snapshots done by the Volume Shadow Copy. By default it uses up to 10 % of the disk space.

  Check the currently maximum storage space via command line as admin:

  C:\> vssadmin list shadowstorage
  

  and see the Maximum Shadow Copy Storage space value on the respective volume.

  To reduce the size (here, set to 10 GB for C:\), execute:

  C:\> vssadmin resize shadowstorage /on=c: /for=c: /maxsize=10GB
  

  This will prevent the directory from saving more than 10 GB of shadow copies.