Windows 7: Free space in Windows partition

Hi everyone,




First of all excuse my future mistakes and if I posted in wrong forum section. Secondly, I currently have 836 MB free in Windows particion, C:, which overall has 24.4 GB. The problem is that when i select all folders and files from C: and i check properties to view size of them, all together have 13.4 GB. So I am missing 8GB from partition.
Other strange thing is that, for example,when i woke up i had 1.06GB free in C:, and now (after ~30 mins) I refreshed to check free space again, and I have only 836 MB. So what happened? How is possible that?

I have to mention that backup files are stored in E:. I have no ideea what is happening here. Where are my 8GB and most important how is possible to have different amount of size in same particion without installing/uninstalling any program.


crynowbv,

It could be:
A restore point or backup
Index
Page file or hibernate file (which grow in size)
Or hidden files and folders.

25 gigs is a very small partition for win 7 especially if you have media or are 64bits

Me current win 7 Partition is 40 gigs and I have no media on that partitions, and am 32 bits.


Ken J

In addition, The part in red could be due to high amount of write activities by the running programs.
Use Piriform - Download CCleaner, Defraggler, Recuva, Speccy - Millions of users worldwide!ccleaner/download to delete unnecessary/junk files.
Also, have a look at the tutorials below:
Disk Cleanup - Open and Use
Disk Cleanup : Extended

Disk Usage info tool- WinDirStat - Windows Directory Statistics

Also, run a full scan with Malwarebytes

Problem solved. Seems i had over 11 GB of junk files (omg). Thank you both.


crynowbv,

Very Well. Do remember cleaning up those junk/temporary files regularly.