Наверное, не нужно говорить, что многие Windows users often notice that space on the hard drive tends to decrease markedly. That gigabyte disappeared, then two, then even more ... Why is this happening? If the hard drive disappeared free space, the reasons for this may be quite a lot. However, the further material proposed for review presents the most basic situations that can be dealt with using several simple methods.
In general, any one exact reason for such a phenomenon is very difficult to call. It is all a matter of their totality.
As a rule, disk space C disappears (Windows10 is used or the system has a lower rank, it does not matter) mainly due to the activity of the system processes of the OS itself, as well as when the computer is cluttering up the user.
However, the most common factors causing the emergence of such situations include the following:
Исходя из перечисленных причин, когда пропадает free space on drive C, you can use regular tools to free it, and use special optimizers or uninstallers. But further emphasis will be placed mostly on the tools of the operating system itself.
Of course, creating recovery points orbackups in the background - a piece useful (you never know when to restore Windows after an unexpected failure). However, you know, all this information is stored in a specially reserved area of the hard drive.
Therefore, if you lost space on drive C, Windows 7or any other system allows such points or copies to be deleted. This is done through the standard cleaning menu of the system partition, which can be accessed through the right-click menu on the computer's icon and go to the general security settings tab. There is a special button, after clicking on which the elements to be cleaned will be deleted.
В том, что пропало свободное место на жестком disk, can be guilty and constantly installed updates. Naturally, it is believed that their installation should not be disabled, but it is not so simple.
As recent events with WannaCry viruses have shownand Petya.A, Microsoft experts quickly released special update packages that supposedly allow not only to neutralize the threat, but at least to prevent its penetration into the system.
In addition, some packages for Windows 7 maycause disruption to the OS itself. In this case, it is recommended to remove the updates that cause errors, and then disable their automatic installation. At best, you can select a search option and download and installation suggestions.
Probably, the hard disk space was lost due to incorrect configuration of virtual memory, for which the system component pagefile.sys, called the page file, is responsible.
To check its size you need to enter the section.performance. Automatic assignment of its size is not always recommended. In principle, in the presence of RAM at 8 GB or more, the use of virtual memory can be turned off altogether. Believe me, the system performance will not suffer from this (tested on a laptop with a Core i7-2620M processor with a frequency of 2.7 GHz and 8 GB RAM).
Another reason that disk space C is lost is the constant use of hibernation mode.
Данный режим работает за счет системного component hiberfil.sys and stores the data of running programs and their currently used settings, again, reserving the disk space of the system partition and RAM. By and large, for such situations it is better to use the sleep mode, rather than hibernation, thereby removing such a huge file.
To do this, you need to register in the command console.powercfg / h off line By the way, after applying such a command, the link to the hibernation mode disappears even in the main menu of the start button. In principle, on computers with small-volume disks, this mode is not recommended at all.
Eating one attack, due to which it disappearsDisk space C, non-deleted temporary application files. In this case, we are talking not only about web browsers, in which it is necessary to clean both the cache and cookies, and the history of visits, and delete all other temporary components, for example, in the form of saved thumbnails of images.
As one of the most commonsituations can be exemplified by installing an application directly from the archiver window without first unpacking it onto the hard drive. At the same time, after closing the archiver, one can immediately notice that, apparently, he unpacked everything inside the archive, which is comparable in size to the full size of the data there.
Another problem is that the place is lost ondrive C, - Photoshop program or any other graphic or video editor. Such utilities create their own paging file, completely ignoring the basic system settings. As a result, the user gets an object of a rather impressive size, which can be several times larger in pagefile.
Another problem is that deletingprograms own Windows uninstaller does not show itself in the best way. This concerns the fact that it does not always remove absolutely everything that was associated with the program. And if earlier, it was proposed to remove some elements on their own, now the system simply reports that the residual components will be deleted at the next reboot.
But nothing like this happens.Files and folders remain, as well as registry keys (and the speed of loading the OS depends on its size). In this case, the best solution would be to use special tools that provide in-depth scanning of residual elements (Revo Uninstaller, iObit Uninstaller, and the like).
Unfortunately, the occurrence of errors in the systemthe partition, after which the hard disk space is reduced, is also no exception. The trouble is that bad sectors can sometimes be completely banal not readable or not recognized.
Thus, the system simply ignores them.Alternatively, you can run a hard drive check, but it is advisable to do it not with the help of a regular tool, but from the command line, setting chkdsk c: / x / f / r or some variation in it. This technique works in the current system, and when booting from removable media.
If the hard drive has physical damagecharacter, there's nothing you can do, although, as it is considered, the HDD Regenerator program can become the most extreme and lasting means of disk recovery, which (according to its creators) can peremagnetically hard disk, which, however, causes serious doubts.
Finally, even many viruses can attackdisk space. Most often this is due to advertising threats, spyware or spam. The problem here is that most of these hijackers are able to integrate into the operating system and into all browsers, after which a huge amount of computer garbage remains in the form of temporary files and in the form of its own elements.
It is best of all to deal with such things with such disk programs (Rescue Disk), which can start even before the OS boots and even define threats that are deeply hidden or integrated into the system.
As we can see, the reasons, as well as the wayselimination of consequences may be quite a lot. And so immediately determine what was the root cause of reducing free space, it is absolutely impossible. Therefore, it is necessary to act, to put it mildly, at random, figuring out what this situation may be connected with initially.
But do not despair.At least one of the proposed methods will work. True, it is necessary to carry out actions according to the list above and in the sequence in which they were described.
As a specific output can be notedthe fact that most of the loss of space on the hard drive is related to the functioning of system processes and programs, as well as improper removal of the application, after which a lot of computer garbage remains in the system, which can be very difficult to get rid of. However, you can also use optimizer programs, although no one can give a full guarantee for deleting residual files and folders. There is visibility of cleaning, but does it really look good?
Naturally, virus attacks cannot be ruled out,but they do not always occur, and the appearance of errors on the hard disk can be associated only with short-term failures, for example, during a sudden power outage or forced reboot during a hang (especially during the installation of service packs).
