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How to Free/Release Memory

Bella Isa 26 Reputation points
2020-10-04T17:12:39.31+00:00

I have Windows 10 Home edition. My hard drive memory is being used up just browsing the internet without downloading anything. When I open File Explorer and select This PC the memory on the C drive under Devices and drives is being used up. When I free up memory using Disk Cleanup hardly any memory is freed. How do I free up memory so I don't run out of space? Please let me know which forum to post if this isn't the correct forum.

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  1. Bella Isa 26 Reputation points
    2020-10-05T01:58:09.533+00:00

    I originally had about 420GB free of 451GB after installing software i.e. SSDT and SQL Server. I freed about 30GB after deleting SQL dump files (C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL15.MSSQLSERVER2019\MSSQL\Log\Polybase\dump). I also deleted installer files but it didn’t free up any space (C:\Windows\Installer). I don’t why my hard drive has dropped to 375GB.
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    I ran the Clean up system files in Disk Cleanup.

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  2. MotoX80 32,246 Reputation points
    2020-10-05T02:31:17.093+00:00

    I don't see anything unusual in your images. With Visual Studio, SQL Server, and everything else, it looks fairly normal to me.

    I periodically clean up winsxs with this: Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup

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