That’s 931GB, so about 1TB.

I would do TreeSize then, make sure to run it as admin (there’s an option once you open it in the top left). Have that scan all your folders on that drive, then expand the biggest folders to see what’s eating all that space up. If you lookup any files that you aren’t sure if they’re important, usually you’ll find some discussions about whether that file is critical or not (for example, if they’re in c:\windows\system32). Comb through each large folder and see what you can clean-up, and that’ll give you some space back hopefully, or at least show you what you’re storing that’s eating it all up.

• You mentioned hard drive, is it a SSD or HDD?
• How big of a drive?
• When you say its getting used up, do you mean its running out of space or the performance is at 100%?

For space: Check what your largest files are, then see if its safe to remove them. Tools like TreeSize are great for this specific usecase.

For performance: Narrow down exactly whats causing it to hit 100% usage. To do that, open task manager, then click the hard drive column. Sort it so they most utilize process is at the top, and that will be whats causing it to max.

Another thing you could try is running these two commands in an elevated powershell/cmd window (right click start, select “run cmd as admin”):

• SFC /ScanNow
• DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

Yes.

Yes I’m a mod, and thank you ;]

I’m not sure where this is rude or off-topic to your question, it is direct but on-topic:

You can do pretty much whatever you want man…

Like “vegan” isn’t even a century old yet, it was made up in the 1940s by some guy who thought vegetarians weren’t good enough, and he set whatever rules he wanted to.

You can just keep using his word, but not care about his rules.

Or you can make up your own name and rules.

People searching for labels they like and then conforming to every fucking aspect of that label and nothing else, doesn’t work out well.

So please, if you want to eat roadkill just do it.

And then this is your rude reply to that comment, which violates the rules:

Cool comment but did you want to answer the question, or just bitch about nothing?

They didn’t break a rule, you did and so your comment was removed. Not to even mention, none of this follows what you claim in this post. Nowhere did they say the question was stupid, and they did stay on-topic.

The vote question would be better suited for the admin team and not mods, as we are just over this community.

Too many people being nasty in this thread, so we’ve removed the negative comments for rule 3.

I’m guessing some people don’t know (or forgot) that site-to-site and remote access VPN’s are a thing, and was the initial purpose of VPN’s. Masking or hiding your location became a benefit after the fact, and todays more common client VPN is technically a remote access VPN with a new purpose.

Remote access VPN’s are a very common attack vector for companies, look up companies compromised with Fortinet gear and its typically through the firewalls VPN.

In fact, a primary purpose of a VPN, spoofing your IP/geolocation, pretending you are someone you aren’t… is pretty much antithetical to a highly controlled system of users with varying levels of access to specific, private areas of that system.

Most modern remote access VPN’s do exactly that, so it is not antithetical at all and is how most client VPN’s keep you from accessing other users data. I would encourage you to read up on WireGuard and the like, they are fun to learn about and awesome tools when configured properly.

Also, we removed the above comment because the last sentence was fairly rude and violates rule 3 @sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Well it unfolded into what I described, so we removed the comments.

…we removed both parties comments because you both were going

you: no your a troll

them: no your a troll

you: no your a troll

them: no your a troll

Not because we took sides.

Calling eachother trolls is not being excellent to eachother (rule 3), if you want to talk about disagreements do it like adults.

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Forgot this is a thing this month, someone reminded me above

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Wish I could award this comment

“Funny Fridays”, I think a good amount of tech people would hate that though lol.

Wow, it’s actually a thing

Just for the humor, I’m going to let this one slide on rule 2 and 5.

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