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Files that are hidden from view but still occupy disk space
I have files on my Windows PC that are completely hidden from File Explorer and don't show up anywhere I look, yet they are still taking up a significant amount of disk space. I need a way to loc...
Windows intentionally hides critical system files to prevent accidental deletion. The biggest ones are pagefile.sys (virtual memory) and hiberfil.sys (hibernation), which can each be multiple gigabytes in size.