In this case, we're not talking about a hard drive that doesn't indicate the capacity it should have, today we'll talk about that in the background delete files or programs, the hard disk eventually displays the same free space, as if you didn't delete or remove anything.
The difference between the space used in Windows 10
Take the test: go to the computer, right-click on your computer and select properties. There you will see that others are not attacked by space and some free space is shown. If you install the unit immediately, select it all, right-click and render the properties, you'll see – after a few seconds, the operating system calculates the space – which tells you a different value (make sure you see the hidden files when done).
Looking at this screenshot, Windows says that the disk is not 131 GB, but selects all files, up to 101 GB. ¿Why such a difference 30 GB? Let's take a look.
This happens because there are some files that Windows doesn't consider "storage", and these files include those known as "storage".Duplicate copies«. Among these files are recovery points and previous file types that we can retrieve.
To see how many of these Shadow Copies are in use, the first thing you should do is open the command prompt window as a controller (right-click on the first problem and select Command Prompt (Administrator). Once open, use the following command:
vssadmin shadow
Here we can see that, in the case of an example, about 20 GB is used by Shadow Copies. When we want to go with this is that, if you just delete the files, it can still take up disk space and no space sent because we are still part of these Copies of Shiva
Getting rid of them (eye, that one you can't back up a backup and make another one), you should log into the Control Panel -> System -> Advanced System Settings -> select the "System Protection tab," select the unit and click the Configure button. In the popup window, you will have an option delete these copies of Shiva.
It is not a recommended practice, but if you really need to have an existing disk space, it is an option to consider.
And what about all the disk space?
You may have noticed that in the first capture, there was a 30 GB difference in the Shiva Copies we found »20 GB, but what about the other 10 GB? In the same way that Windows doesn't think this space is a repository, and doesn't look for files Page.sys page
But if you've deleted the files and the hard drive does not return the available capacity, the first thing to do is be very clear: pour out the recycling bin, because it may be that the deleted files ended there without you noticing.
Finally, if you have uninstalled programs but all available disk space should appear, you should remember that most programs have active threads when you uninstall them, so what the software does is to schedule removal the next time you restart the computer, before it can work again. In short, restart the computer and you should often see the space available to you.
