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GracePerez
Iron Contributor
Jun 27, 2025

Help me find out what takes up so much space on my laptop

Something somewhere feels like sitting on like half my storage right now, not sure how to find it but its pretty annoying bc i cant download any more steam games, not the big ones anyways. what might be causing this?

 

 

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  • Andretti's avatar
    Andretti
    Copper Contributor

    I usually make use of a 3rd party tool called TreeSize from JamSoftware to do a deep dive in my local drives.

     

  • AnselRhodes's avatar
    AnselRhodes
    Iron Contributor

    It’ll give you a colorful map showing what files and folders are the biggest space hogs. You can easily spot giant files or folders you don’t need.

  • Sasompark's avatar
    Sasompark
    Iron Contributor

    Sometimes, backup or recovery partitions or system restore points can take up space without obvious files. You can manage restore points via:

        Control Panel → System → System Protection → Configure.