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That’s 931GB, so about 1TB.

I would do TreeSize then, make sure to run it as admin (there’s an option once you open it in the top left). Have that scan all your folders on that drive, then expand the biggest folders to see what’s eating all that space up. If you lookup any files that you aren’t sure if they’re important, usually you’ll find some discussions about whether that file is critical or not (for example, if they’re in c:\windows\system32). Comb through each large folder and see what you can clean-up, and that’ll give you some space back hopefully, or at least show you what you’re storing that’s eating it all up.

• You mentioned hard drive, is it a SSD or HDD?
• How big of a drive?
• When you say its getting used up, do you mean its running out of space or the performance is at 100%?

For space: Check what your largest files are, then see if its safe to remove them. Tools like TreeSize are great for this specific usecase.

For performance: Narrow down exactly whats causing it to hit 100% usage. To do that, open task manager, then click the hard drive column. Sort it so they most utilize process is at the top, and that will be whats causing it to max.

Another thing you could try is running these two commands in an elevated powershell/cmd window (right click start, select “run cmd as admin”):

• SFC /ScanNow
• DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

The vote question would be better suited for the admin team and not mods, as we are just over this community.

Too many people being nasty in this thread, so we’ve removed the negative comments for rule 3.

I’m guessing some people don’t know (or forgot) that site-to-site and remote access VPN’s are a thing, and was the initial purpose of VPN’s. Masking or hiding your location became a benefit after the fact, and todays more common client VPN is technically a remote access VPN with a new purpose.

Remote access VPN’s are a very common attack vector for companies, look up companies compromised with Fortinet gear and its typically through the firewalls VPN.

In fact, a primary purpose of a VPN, spoofing your IP/geolocation, pretending you are someone you aren’t… is pretty much antithetical to a highly controlled system of users with varying levels of access to specific, private areas of that system.

Most modern remote access VPN’s do exactly that, so it is not antithetical at all and is how most client VPN’s keep you from accessing other users data. I would encourage you to read up on WireGuard and the like, they are fun to learn about and awesome tools when configured properly.

Also, we removed the above comment because the last sentence was fairly rude and violates rule 3 @[email protected]

Well it unfolded into what I described, so we removed the comments.

…we removed both parties comments because you both were going

you: no your a troll

them: no your a troll

you: no your a troll

them: no your a troll

Not because we took sides.

Calling eachother trolls is not being excellent to eachother (rule 3), if you want to talk about disagreements do it like adults.

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Forgot this is a thing this month, someone reminded me above

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Wish I could award this comment

“Funny Fridays”, I think a good amount of tech people would hate that though lol.

Wow, it’s actually a thing

Just for the humor, I’m going to let this one slide on rule 2 and 5.

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Haha, ty