Installed Windows folder size?

[VR777]

Hello!
Recently, free space on my system partition is going low for no reason (800mb out of 48gb is free). I have installed FolderSizes program to see what use all space and top space user is windows folder (21.5 gb). Inside windows folder top space use folders are : Serviceprofiles (about 10gb); winsxs (4.19gb); system32 (3gb). I dont know if this ok, but i googled about normal size of installed windows, and its about 4-5gb. What to do?

 

[Lee]

Hi VR777, and Welcome To The Seven Forums.
Have you gone into Explorer (file manager) and tried running "Disk Cleanup."

To do this go into Explorer (file manager) and right click on the HDD that needs attention. Then navigate down to Properties, and click on "Disk Cleanup;" this should help a little bit. Also take a look at how much space your System Recovery is set up for. You may need to turn "System Recovery" off because of the small HDD you are using.

 

[VR777]

Thank you!
I have tried "disk cleanup", but it can only clean 10mb and i turned system restore off long time ago

 

[Lee]

Have you install office or any other problems that may have set up caches on your HDD. Some programs do this in order to make it easy to update applications without having to put the CD/DVD used to install the application back in the DVD/CD drive. Just another thought.

 

[Desslok]

SOmething sounds fishy with that ServiceProfiles directory if its really 10GB. DId you scan for Viruses/spyware?

 

[VR777]

yeah, i have Office installed. How to check how much it uses space?
I have fully scanned PC. Here what i have in serviceprofiles folder. i see they are some temp files

8 file system object(s) (total size: 9.71 GB)
C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\WER60E0.tmp.secure.hdmp
C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\WERD420.tmp.secure.hdmp
C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\WER4DF0.tmp.secure.hdmp
C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\WER7745.tmp.secure.hdmp
C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\WERCE0B.tmp.secure.hdmp
C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\WERB0F0.tmp.secure.hdmp
C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\WERB223.tmp.secure.hdmp
C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\WER8A40.tmp.secure.mdmp

 

[whs]

SOmething sounds fishy with that ServiceProfiles directory if its really 10GB. DId you scan for Viruses/spyware?

Absolutely agree. My service profiles are quasi zero - they have only 2 itty bitty items. I suggest you open that folder and see what's in it.
Btw: a running Win7 with a reasonable amout of programs installed should be around 15 to 17GB total. That is with pagefile but without hibernation file. Suggest also to run WinDirStat. That will give you more details.

 

[CommonTater]

Btw: a running Win7 with a reasonable amout of programs installed should be around 15 to 17GB total.

Really? Mine's been sitting at just over 6gb (software included) since the day I installed it....

 

[whs]

yeah, i have Office installed. How to check how much it uses space?
I have fully scanned PC. Here what i have in serviceprofiles folder. i see they are some temp files

8 file system object(s) (total size: 9.71 GB)
C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\WER60E0.tmp.secure.hdmp
C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\WERD420.tmp.secure.hdmp
C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\WER4DF0.tmp.secure.hdmp
C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\WER7745.tmp.secure.hdmp
C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\WERCE0B.tmp.secure.hdmp
C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\WERB0F0.tmp.secure.hdmp
C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\WERB223.tmp.secure.hdmp
C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\WER8A40.tmp.secure.mdmp

Office is about 325MB. And those files are temporary files. Run CCleaner - that will take care of them.

 

[VR777]

thanks for ccleaner.
hmm, it removed only 229mb. Can I delete those files manually?

 

[whs]

thanks for ccleaner.
hmm, it removed only 229mb. Can I delete those files manually?

I guess you can, but as long as you do not know what they are used for, I would be careful.

 

[VR777]

yes, wont be good if I wont boot next time I will turn pc on. So, are this system files or files from some application? Any way to trace?

 

[DarkStar GT]

Those files seem to be Trouble Report / memory dump files.

Are you getting problems reported (or in Event Viewer)?

 

[VR777]

hmm, i had problems with electricity week ago... and i there are lots of kernel-power errors

 

[VR777]

so is it safe to delete this files?

 

[Duke of Alinor]

I would move them to a temp dir in the root so you can find them easily in case you need to boot a CD and repair. Move and reboot.

WinDirStat is way cool, thanks. My WinDir is 13G, not sure why it is that big, running 64 Pro.

 

[unifex]

Hmm, the size of my C:\Windows is 17 GB, this is Ultimate, but the size of C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles is 0 (0 files, two folders). I would agree with Duke - move them and try to reboot.

In fact, I googled (and binged) the filenames that your earlier post showed - the only reference found was this very thread.

 

[VR777]

I deleted them and all ok now. Thank you all for help

 

[ca6]

Thanks for this information!
My ServiceProfiles folder was 46GB, quite a lot on a 128GB SSD :-/

EDIT:

Ok, this is a problem. I deleted the files, and now the size of the folder is constantly growing while I'm using the computer.

VR777, have you got the same problem?

 

[VR777]

hmm, yeah... i observed constant grow... Have your computer turned off incorrectly recently? (home power off or it froze and you had to press reset button)