C Drive Overload

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I have been having problems with my C drive on my laptop. It has been overloaded for sometime and I am needing some assistance as to what I can do to get it back to normal. I have tried to optimize, and that doesn't seem to work and I don't want to delete anything. What can I do?

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DaveM121 935.1K Independent Advisor

Hi Jason, yes a lot of stuff - 3/4 of your hard drive was in that folder, you will have a lot of free space once that is done

Make sure to empty your Recycle Bin once that is done . . .

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2018-07-10T21:52:28+00:00

It's saying it's not going to let me send a picture, there has to be a minimum of 6 characters.

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2018-07-10T20:44:17+00:00

It's saying it's not going to let me send a picture, there has to be a minimum of 6 characters.
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DaveM121 935.1K Reputation points Independent Advisor

2018-07-10T20:39:47+00:00

Hi Jason,

I doubt that is the culprit, 4.6GB is not a large compared to your hard drive size, you have a 920GB HDD with 1.33GB free, Please provide a screenshot of that TreeSize window, showing the largest folders . . .
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Anonymous

2018-07-10T20:35:36+00:00

That's ok. So I downloaded what you gave me, did a scan there is a folder called System Files with 4.6 GB with 7 files with 86.2% - I believe that is the culprit
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