- Is your hibernation file off?
From Administrative Command prompt
powercfg /h off
- Did you move your swap file to another drive?
- How big is c:\users\
Empty all of these folders
C:\Users\_Your_username_\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5
“C:\Users\_Your_username_\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application”
“C:\Users\_Your_username_\AppData\Local\Chromium\Application”
“C:\Users\_Your_username_\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Media Player”
“C:\Users\_Your_username_\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Media Player\Image cache”
“C:\Users\_Your_username_\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Messenger”
“C:\Users\_Your_username_\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live\Contacts”
“C:\Users\_Your_username_\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Live\Contacts\your_email@live.com\15.4\DBStore\Backup\new”
“C:\Users\_Your_username_\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Speech\Files\MSASR”
“C:\Users\_Your_username_\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Speech\Files\TrainingAudio”
“C:\Users\_Your_username_\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer”
“C:\Users\_Your_username_\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Burn\”
“C:\Users\_Your_username_\AppData\Local\Temp”
“C:\Users\_Your_Username_\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\u7n8j42k.default”.
c:\windows\temp
c:\program files\NVIDIA Corporation\Installer2
C:\Users\<name>\AppData\Local\Temp
Turn off Windows update
Move C:\windows\SoftwareDistribution to another drive and junction it
mklink /J "C:\windows\SoftwareDistribution" "d:\junctions\SoftwareDistribution"
Turn windows update back on.
- Delete all but your last system restore point.
Re-install,Move,Junction the largest folders in
"c:\program files"
"c:\program files (x86)"
More in a minute.
You need to move and/or junction stuff to another drive. Is My Documents/Documents still on the C: drive? Move them!
Upgrade also backup your Windows folder, how big is your current Windows folder? – Martheen Cahya Paulo – 2015-08-07T02:47:42.183
Much like "the cake is a lie" in portal 8gb is lie, try 16gb! What have you done? I will start a check list. – cybernard – 2015-08-07T02:51:34.950
How many GB are in this hidden folder? C:\ProgramData – cybernard – 2015-08-07T03:14:36.177
Is your C: drive the whole physical drive or just 1 or several partition? If there is more than 1 partition resize the other one and make c: larger. – cybernard – 2015-08-07T03:16:48.957