Chances are you have run out of space on your drive and want more free space. The first thing to do is run the following:cleanmgr /D C where /D means "here comes a drive letter" and C is that drive letter
This is the standard Windows disk cleanup utility, so always a good place to start.
My next step is usually to run WinDirStat - Windows Directory Statistics because it does a brilliant job of helping you pinpoint the problem. There is an alternative version of this at ariccio/altWinDirStat: An unofficial modification of WinDirStat. Whether that is a directory or file type. I usually execute one of the things below and use "Refresh Selected" in WinDirStat to see how much improvement was made.
If you find C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\DataStore.edb is big then it can help to defragment it, I saved a few hundred megabytes this way. You can delete the file but it will just get recreated by the Windows Update process, so open a Command Prompt and do this:net stop wuauserv
net stop bits
esentutl.exe /d C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\DataStore.edb
net start bits
net start wuauserv
At present it seems that Microsoft Teams updates by downloading a new version and then switching the directories round. Usually you will find a "current" and a "previous" directory. From what I have seen, it is safe to delete "previous" directory, which can be found in the following location:C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Teams\previous
As you might expect, you do this at your own risk!
From a process and directory point of view, this is still "Lync". Even with logging turned of I found that Skype had generated a lot of ".etl" event logging files. To remove these and reduce its disk usage I did the following:
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Lync\Tracing but not the directoriesI recently hit a problem with disk space and found a lot of space being taken by C:\Windows\Logs\CBS, this seems to be a reasonably common problem. Simply do the following:
It is not completely clear what this is for, however clearing the directory has not caused any issues, so navigate to the following:C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\MSOIdentityCRL\Tracing
Where you can then delete all the files.
I have found that the Indexing Service makes a rather large file called C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.edb, which on a small C: drive can causes issues. To move it to the D: drive or another location just go into "Indexing Options" in the Control Panel, click "Advanced" and then set a new location. After a couple of minutes it will be moved. Nice and simple!
The easiest way to move things to create space is to either uninstall and re-install the application or change its configuration to put the data in another location or rather on another drive. Sometimes though, this is not possible and in these cases I have found moving the files and then adding a Directory Junction to be a good option and hence I have published a script to do this, see:
windows/batch/relocate.cmd · master · Geoff Lawrence / Geoff Does Stuff · GitLab