Abnormally large Windows folder, size reduction possible?

My Windows folder is 24.1 GB. I'm not far off from yours and I have a large backlog of updates.

Here is the System32 folder that you mentioned:



How large is your DriverStore folder?

Sorry for the late reply. DriverStore is around 7 GB for me, is that unusually high?

Disappointing. There should be a way to reduce DriverStore right? I feel most of the space is from old Nvidia drivers or something.

ProfPepper said:

Sorry for the late reply. DriverStore is around 7 GB for me, is that unusually high?

The 3 computers that I checked were around 1GB.
C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository seems to have the most files.

Yep, FileRepository is what holds basically the entire 7 GB.

I downloaded a DriverStore explorer to take a look at what drivers are actually stored there, and I found a lot of old Razer and Nvidia drivers.

I can apparently delete these old drivers but I'm not proficient with messing around with system32.

I have a .csv file of all the drivers if you'd like to see that.

I don't know of a way to safely clear out old files from there.

All good, I made another thread in the Drivers forum. Thanks for helping me diagnose the problem though!