Hey Guys,
I have recently had my computer worked on by a local computer repair company because I was floundering with infinite Windows 10 repair loop. So I have the computer back now, everything for the most part seems to be function correctly and i am slowly tweeking everything back to my personal preferences. During the repair they determined that my Windows files were corrupted and completed reinstalled Windows 10 ( 64 bit Pro). In my setup Windows and essential files are loaded on a SSD (C: ,Boot Drive) and everything else goes on a mechanical drive (D: ). My issue(s) is that when reviewing the various systems on my computer i noticed that my mechanical drive (1TB) now has less then 50% free space; while i do not remember exactly how much free space remained before the repair, i would feel confident saying that i was around 30% storage usage. So this appears just shy of double. I am not sure if they made a mistake when the backed up my data or what.
I used CCleaner to get a better idea of what was going on with my storage and two things stood out two me.
1) The duplicate file finder tool revealed that there are a lot of matching files that are pathed to both my current user file as well as my previous user profile.
2) A 200+GB compressed file with contents that are all " backup file #.zip" also pathed to my previous user profile.
So after that long winded explanation, my question is any suggestions on whether i can remove these files and how would i go about weeding out all the files associated with the previous user profile.
Any help is appreciated. Thank You
I have recently had my computer worked on by a local computer repair company because I was floundering with infinite Windows 10 repair loop. So I have the computer back now, everything for the most part seems to be function correctly and i am slowly tweeking everything back to my personal preferences. During the repair they determined that my Windows files were corrupted and completed reinstalled Windows 10 ( 64 bit Pro). In my setup Windows and essential files are loaded on a SSD (C: ,Boot Drive) and everything else goes on a mechanical drive (D: ). My issue(s) is that when reviewing the various systems on my computer i noticed that my mechanical drive (1TB) now has less then 50% free space; while i do not remember exactly how much free space remained before the repair, i would feel confident saying that i was around 30% storage usage. So this appears just shy of double. I am not sure if they made a mistake when the backed up my data or what.
I used CCleaner to get a better idea of what was going on with my storage and two things stood out two me.
1) The duplicate file finder tool revealed that there are a lot of matching files that are pathed to both my current user file as well as my previous user profile.
2) A 200+GB compressed file with contents that are all " backup file #.zip" also pathed to my previous user profile.
So after that long winded explanation, my question is any suggestions on whether i can remove these files and how would i go about weeding out all the files associated with the previous user profile.
Any help is appreciated. Thank You
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