{"id":86,"date":"2022-04-19T06:58:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T06:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ozsns.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/19\/c-drive-showing-less-space-than-actual\/"},"modified":"2022-04-19T06:58:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T06:58:49","slug":"c-drive-showing-less-space-than-actual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/19\/c-drive-showing-less-space-than-actual\/","title":{"rendered":"C Drive Showing Less Space Than Actual"},"content":{"rendered":"

C Drive Showing Less Space Than Actual On 10:07<\/a> By Nandit Saini<\/a>C drive showing less space<\/a>, Recovery<\/a>, Restore Point<\/a>, Shadow Copy<\/a>, window 7<\/a>For the past few days I was observing that my C drive’s<\/b> remaining space was reducing drastically even though I had uninstalled some large applications,emptied my Recycle Bin and also ran CCleaner software for clearing out temporary files, recent files,memory dumps etc. I also selected all the folders inside my C drive and saw their properties to calculate the amount space they were taking and it turned out that approximately 100GB<\/b> was free in my C drive but in My Computers it was showing that there is less than 20 GBs of space remaining.<\/p>\n

After some research I found that most of my space was eaten up by what is called shadow copies<\/b>. These shadow copies contains System Restore Points<\/b> and previous versions of files. So if you are like me who hasn’t formatted his Windows even once since the purchase then most probably a lot of shadow copies must have been piled up. Now I am going to tell, how you can delete all but the most recent restore point<\/b> and also manage the System Restore Disk Usage.<\/b><\/p>\n

How to Delete all but the most recent Restore Point<\/h3>\n

Before following this procedure you can also check how many Restore Points(shadow copies)<\/b> are actually there by opening System Restore Program<\/b> and then select the check box saying Show more restore points<\/b>. <\/a>
If you see many restore points<\/b> which are dated 2-3 years back.Then you can follow the below given procedure to free up some space.<\/p>\n

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  1. Click on Start<\/b> and type Disk Cleanup<\/b> and then click on Disk Cleanup<\/b> from Programs Section.<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Choose C Drive and click on OK in the dialogue box that appeared.After click on OK it will calculate what all you can delete.<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Now click on Clean up System Files<\/b> as shown below in the image.Then again the same dialogue box that appeared in step 2 will come and just like the previous step click on OK.<\/a> <\/li>\n
  4. Now go to the More Options<\/b> Tab and choose Clean Up<\/b> as shown below.<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. That’s it and it may take some time.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    How to manage System Restore disk Usage<\/h3>\n
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    1. Open Computer<\/b> and then click on System Properties<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n
    2. Click on System Protection<\/b>.<\/a><\/li>\n

      A dialogue box will appear.In this box under Protection Settings<\/b> Section select C Drive<\/b> and then click on Configure<\/b> as shown below.<\/a><\/p>\n

    3. Under Disk Space Usage<\/b> section slide the bar according to you requirement like I had done as shown below.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      <\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      C Drive Showing Less Space Than Actual On 10:07 By Nandit SainiC drive showing less space, Recovery, Restore Point, Shadow Copy, window 7For the past few days I was observing that my C drive’s remaining space was reducing drastically even though I had uninstalled some large applications,emptied my Recycle Bin and also ran CCleaner software […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozsns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}