multiple Application Data folders taking up lots of space

How about my other suggestions you ignored including deleting the temp files in those Appdata folders. As stated CCleaner can do it for you automatically or you can go through each one to delete them yourselves. In the past this is where the problem was.

gregrocker said:
When was the last time you had a Clean Reinstall?

For those who accumulate a lot of crapware and file buildup, its the perfect solution since once its set up and running as you like with your important apps, you can save a backup image to use in place of reinstall.

For now I'd run CCleaner - PC Optimization and Cleaning - Free Download
which is very good with cleaning out the temp folders. You can also do this manually on all the temp Application Data folders. Then I would do a boot time defrag with Puran Defrag Free Edition - Free software downloads and software reviews - CNET Download.com which gets at System files and includes an Intelligent Optimizer on the Additional Operations tab that can speed things up.
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No, I didn't ignore your suggestion. I've been runn CCleaner for years. And as mentioned, I built my computer in 6/12
 

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10.7 is my iphone back up, which I could manually move to another drive, and looks like almost 1 gig is a program download I can delete
 

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IPhone backup. Bingo.

But that's only half. Most Appdata has much, much less.

Did you happen to notice how much CCleaner found last time on disk cleanup? More than 1gb I'd run it more often.
 
gotta run will check more later, Thanks for your help. Will post an update here/

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gregrocker.

Thanks for your help. I see that the program I was using, Ridnacs, wasn't providing me with useful HD info.

As I hate to have my data files mixes with my OS, I want to move my iPhone back up to another drive. Apple doesn't make this easy as there is no way to easily change the back up location.

Any thought about this approach? https://sihuwa.wordpress.com/2010/11/22/how-to-change-the-iphone-backup-location-on-windows/

That would reduce my App Data to about 7.5 GBs. Is that reasonable?

Thanks,

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Mine's 2.5GB including Google chrome. I still think yours is about 5gb too high, but 5GB isn't really something to stress over unless you are seriously low on space. A lot of applications store data there, and I seem to recall Windows 8 downloader storing the images there.
 

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"Windows 8 downloader storing the images there." I'm on Win 7.

What about the junction hack?
 

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reo said:
"Windows 8 downloader storing the images there." I'm on Win 7.

What about the junction hack?
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When you upgrade to Windows 8 using Windows 7, the upgrade advisor downloads the installation media and stores it in appdata. I installed Windows 8 on a different computer, so the installation image is still there on my Win7 computer.
 

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2GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (PC2-5300) (upgrade)
Graphics Card(s)
ATI Radeon X1600 with 128MB GDDR3 memory
Monitor(s) Displays
17-inch TFT active-matrix LCD, millions of colors
Screen Resolution
1440 x 900
Hard Drives
Hitachi 320GB HDT721032SLA360 7200RPM SATA II (upgrade)
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Microsoft Wired Keyboard 600
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Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse v2.0
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Microsoft Security Essentials
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