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I'm trying to help my mother-in-law sort out her PC. It's running Win 7 so she's got a decision to make in a couple of weeks re upgrade / ditch / take offline.
It has a 1TB hard disk, and Windows Explorer reports 640GB free and 291GB used. I'm trying to work out what that 291GB is. I've got Windows Explorer configured to show me all files and folders including hidden/system ones. I've checked the size of each top-level folder on the drive and the breakdown is:
9GB Program Files
3GB Program Data
63GB Users
9GB Windows
which totals only 84GB. So where is the other 207GB which Windows Explorer reports to be used? Where could/should I be looking?
(It's potentially an important question because one option is to buy a new laptop, and SSD sizing comes into play.)
Thanks in advance for your help.
It has a 1TB hard disk, and Windows Explorer reports 640GB free and 291GB used. I'm trying to work out what that 291GB is. I've got Windows Explorer configured to show me all files and folders including hidden/system ones. I've checked the size of each top-level folder on the drive and the breakdown is:
9GB Program Files
3GB Program Data
63GB Users
9GB Windows
which totals only 84GB. So where is the other 207GB which Windows Explorer reports to be used? Where could/should I be looking?
(It's potentially an important question because one option is to buy a new laptop, and SSD sizing comes into play.)
Thanks in advance for your help.