How can I find out what is taking up space on my SSD?

I've got three machine all with basically the same programs and files installed on each, give or take. Two laptops have around 202GB free space on a 250GB SSD and my Desktop has only 190GB of free space on a 250GB SSD. My desktop does have the software for two GPSs but I can't see them using over 10GB.

Can anyone help me solve why so much of my SSD had been used on my desktop PC? It's only about 10GB but that is still a fair bit on a relatively small drive.

I have run Disk Clean-up in Windows as well as CCleaner and PrivaZer but it didn't make much difference.

Thanks.

 

To get a quick overview you can use "WizTree" which provides a Tree View of all folders or a File View where the biggest 1000 files are displayed.
It needs only a few seconds to scan the whole partition (administrator rights are needed)

 

Awesome, thanks!

Now to learn how to use it.

Is 16.0GB pagefile.sys normal?

 

Krusty,

Do you also have hiberfil.sys?

What size are these files on the other computers?

 

No Brian. I've disabled Hibernate so that's probably why?

One machine is shut down at the moment, I'll check it later.

The pagefile.sys is only 1.3 GB on my laptop.

 

Looks like that big pagefile is the answer.

 

Only? 190GB free out of 250GB is a LOT of free space.

16GB is a large PF. How much RAM do you have. And are you [hopefully!] letting Windows manage it, or are you truly an expert at Window memory management?

 

The desktop PC has 16GB RAM and yes, I let Windows manage it. If I was any sort of expert I wouldn't be asking these types of questions.

Brian, the other laptop also has pagefile.sys 1.3 GB. Both laptops have 8GB RAM.

Yeah, I think so. I'll leave things as they are anyway. All machines seem to work well so if they aren't broke...

 

I set my pagefile to 1GB that's enough for any DUMP files if Windows crashes and I have 16GB of RAM! I use TweakSSD to fine tune all the settings you might want to try it out? http://www.totalidea.com/products/tweak-ssd/ and the paid version is cheap.

 

Krusty,

A year or two ago I had a few BSOD. I had Windows managing the pagefile and it was around 2 GB. After each BSOD the pagefile became 16 GB (16 GB of RAM as you do). I set the pagefile to 2 GB and restarted. I then set the pagefile to Windows managed and it has remained around 2 GB again.

 

I see you've got to give them your email address before you can even download the free version.

 

How about here? http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/tweak_ssd.html

 

Brian,

I'm just checking it out now and it says the Current Size is 16384 MB and the Recommended Size is 2927 MB. I'd be happy with that but what should I add as a Initial Size?

The Minimum Allowed is 16 MB.

 

Thanks TH. That way works. I might give it a try a bit later.

Cheers!

 

See Samsung's recommendation within Magician! I have 5 Samsung SSD's on my Alienware Laptop.

Click to make it larger!

 

It doesn't matter as it will only be that size for a few minutes. I used 2 GB.

 

Here goes. Ill be back in a minute. or three.

 

I've tried two times with the same result.

I can manually change the size, restart and I'm back to having 203 GB free space but as soon as I allow Windows to manage the size the pagefile.sys goes back to 16 GB.

What am I doing wrong?

 

I don't know. I suggest using a custom size of 2927/2927 MB. That is plenty.

 

OK, I can do that. I don't know why Windows thinks it needs 16 GB pagefile though.

 

My test computer has 4 GB RAM. The Windows managed pagefile is 704 MB.

 

Yeah that sounds round about right because my two 8 GB RAM laptops have a 1.3 GB pagefile each.

 

You can check what is your settings for debugging information in Startup and Recovery section. You might hive Complete memory dump option enabled?


You can find some more info here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/254649/overview-of-memory-dump-file-options-for-windows

 

I just checked on my Win10 machine and it is set for "Automatic memory dump".

 

OK, then that shouldn't be a reason:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn383663(v=vs.85).aspx