Missing around 80gb on my SSD

IntroGamer

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So I noticed my strage on my 250gb ssd was low, so I styarted doing cleaning, Ive cleaned everything I could find and emptied the recycle bin, and check.... still only have about 20gb left. Check my space usage by slecting all fodlers in my c:/ drive and iot all adds up to around 150gb, I have 232 available space on the SSD. This includes windows and both program files folders.

http://imgur.com/a/AiwEB image of the properties & the disk info, looking for any solution to where all the space Im missing might be.
 
Solution
Hidden files and folders?
You are only selecting the visible ones, there is a lot of files/folders that could be there and you are not selecting them.
Right click on your C: ssd drive

Select properties at the bottom of the menu bar, click on the general tab .

Click on disk clean up.

Tick the check boxes you wish to clean and regain space from.
Once done.

Follow the same procedure again, only this time click on the more options tab.

For system restore and shadow copies. click on the disk clean up tab.
Delete all of the system restore points windows has made except the most recent one made.

That should free up quiet a lot of space up on your ssd drive for you IntroGamer ok.

 


How do I enable to see them on w10? I used to do it on w7 but havent had to and cannot remember.

edit: figured it out, found a hidden folder w a good amount of space and cleaned it out of things i no longer need. Thanks!