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As per the title, is it too much to have a 22GB Users folder ? What can I delete, help, I am getting annoyed :-) enter image description here

squillman
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joedotnot
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    ...is it too much to have a 22GB Users folder? - only if you're out of storage space. This is your "profile" folder. Many (most) of the files relative to your user account are stored in this folder. If you don't understand how this folder is structured it is best to read up on it and become familiar before making any changes. If you need to free up storage space on your drive quickly do things like empty the temp folder, purge your downloads, look for things in Documents and Pictures that can go (back them up if needed), etc. – squillman Aug 25 '22 at 13:39
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    Do not delete anything out of App Data unless you are fully and completely familiar with what is in there. Otherwise you are faced with reinstalling Windows. – John Aug 25 '22 at 13:44
  • @squillman, Basically 4 folders Windows, Program Files (x86), Users, ProgramData are taking up 91% of my C: drive; [ I had already done what you said re Temp, Docs, Pics, etc prior to posting the question ] – joedotnot Aug 25 '22 at 13:48
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    Yes, that's not unusual. Start with the folders I mentioned in my previous comment. Again, unless you're familiar with what's in there you don't want to mess with this folder. – squillman Aug 25 '22 at 13:49
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    Best thing for you to do is change to a larger drive. 512GB is a practical minimum size today (2021, 2022, 2023) – John Aug 25 '22 at 13:59
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    to be more clear: NO, 22GB user folder is not an indication of anything and is not "too much" and is not of any consequence. – Yorik Aug 25 '22 at 14:28
  • when SSDs were expensive, laptop manufacturers convinced many people that a 128GB SSD was "great". They were wrong, & quite probably intentionally misleading. The Users folder is not too large, you were fooled into buying a computer with a drive far too small. You really need a bigger drive. – Tetsujin Aug 25 '22 at 15:04
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    @Tetsujin I don't know if I was fooled or not, this is my NUC where I made the decision that 110GB was enough for Windows 7 on C drive and 1TB on D drive, and it has been functioning well as a Dev PC for a good few years now; but after every upgrade to Win 8 and then Win 10, the minimal diskspace requirements keep increasing. – joedotnot Aug 25 '22 at 17:24
  • I had a couple of PCs I put 128s in when they came out, as they were really expensive. They were too small for anything except just a boot drive. I replaced them all, smallest now is 512. They're just too limiting & every write makes you have to watch space. You can also wear them out in months if there's no space left - basically you're hammering writes onto a few spare GB. My first died in 6 months, the 2nd I recycled shortly after, before it could fail. I've a few 1TB SSDs still going strong at 8 or 9 years. I do blame the manufacturers for selling these to an unsuspecting general public. – Tetsujin Aug 25 '22 at 18:27

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The folders in your screenshot should not be manually deleted. You should instead clean up from within the related applications (or uninstall them). Some examples using your screenshot:

Hope those help!

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