Find What Files Are Taking up Your Hard Drive Space [Guide]

Find What Files Are Taking up Your Hard Drive Space [Guide]

Does your device run out of memory frequently? Do you often scratch your head, wondering what is taking up all that space on your drive but can't figure out what it is? It's nothing out of the ordinary; every Windows user faces the issue of insufficient disk space sooner or later.

Thanks to Microsoft, finding the apps, documents, and files taking up most of your disk space on Windows and cleaning that space by removing extraneous clutter is now easier than ever. If that's your goal, read on to find out how to get there.

Issues addressed in this tutorial:
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When the computer’s hard drive begins to fill up, you will start wondering what’s taking up all the available space, which is when “Storage sense” will come in handy.

On Windows 10, most people know “Storage sense” as a feature to free up hard drive space. While this is true, it is also a tool to analyze the content of any drive to figure out the space utilization to know where to start cleaning up files you cannot remove using this feature.

In this guide, you will learn how to use Storage Sense to understand how storage is utilized on Windows 10.

This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops, and tablets running the Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Alienware, Razer, MSI, Huawei , Microsoft Surface, and Samsung.