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  • Lately, my Windows 10 hard drive is being used up for no reason whatsoever - I'm pretty sure it was Windows Update that's causing it. What should I do?

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  • That's 931GB, so about 1TB.

    I would do TreeSize then, make sure to run it as admin (there's an option once you open it in the top left). Have that scan all your folders on that drive, then expand the biggest folders to see what's eating all that space up. If you lookup any files that you aren't sure if they're important, usually you'll find some discussions about whether that file is critical or not (for example, if they're in c:\windows\system32). Comb through each large folder and see what you can clean-up, and that'll give you some space back hopefully, or at least show you what you're storing that's eating it all up.

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    Best KDE Plasma Linux Distros In 2026 | Plasma 6 Guide

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  • I think you forgot to include the link ;)

  • Lately, my Windows 10 hard drive is being used up for no reason whatsoever - I'm pretty sure it was Windows Update that's causing it. What should I do?

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    • You mentioned hard drive, is it a SSD or HDD?
    • How big of a drive?
    • When you say its getting used up, do you mean its running out of space or the performance is at 100%?

    For space: Check what your largest files are, then see if its safe to remove them. Tools like TreeSize are great for this specific usecase.

    For performance: Narrow down exactly whats causing it to hit 100% usage. To do that, open task manager, then click the hard drive column. Sort it so they most utilize process is at the top, and that will be whats causing it to max.

    Another thing you could try is running these two commands in an elevated powershell/cmd window (right click start, select "run cmd as admin"):

    • SFC /ScanNow
    • DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

  • How long after starting Vitamin D supplements should you notice results?

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  • Yes.

  • Why does a community called no stupid questions allow comments that say the question is stupid?

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  • Yes I'm a mod, and thank you ;]

  • Why does a community called no stupid questions allow comments that say the question is stupid?

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  • I'm not sure where this is rude or off-topic to your question, it is direct but on-topic:

    You can do pretty much whatever you want man...

    Like "vegan" isn't even a century old yet, it was made up in the 1940s by some guy who thought vegetarians weren't good enough, and he set whatever rules he wanted to.

    You can just keep using his word, but not care about his rules.

    Or you can make up your own name and rules.

    People searching for labels they like and then conforming to every fucking aspect of that label and nothing else, doesn't work out well.

    So please, if you want to eat roadkill just do it.

    And then this is your rude reply to that comment, which violates the rules:

    Cool comment but did you want to answer the question, or just bitch about nothing?

    They didn't break a rule, you did and so your comment was removed. Not to even mention, none of this follows what you claim in this post. Nowhere did they say the question was stupid, and they did stay on-topic.

  • Why does a community called no stupid questions allow comments that say the question is stupid?

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  • Thank you!

  • Why does a community called no stupid questions allow comments that say the question is stupid?

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  • Just because that one is pretty old we are going to leave it, but in the future reports help us catch these. All of us have jobs and families outside of the community, we do this for the enjoyment of others, so reports are heavily relied on and appreciated.

  • Why does a community called no stupid questions allow comments that say the question is stupid?

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  • Final edit: based on mod logs it appears this OP is being disingenuous, but the below still stands. We appreciate anyone who reports in good faith, and welcome any messages if you feel like we got things wrong.

    Please report those, we will remove them. If we removed your comment for being rude and not theirs, then we did not read their rude comment calling the question stupid, and that's our bad.

    Also, my DM's are always open if you disagree with a removal, anyone who has spoken with me before will vouch that I'm fairly reasonable as long as things don't break rules (such as gray areas).

    Edit: could you link the comment you're talking about? The only thing I could find is this, which doesn't appear to be what you're talking about, but the response you gave to them was rude

  • Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco

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  • The vote question would be better suited for the admin team and not mods, as we are just over this community.

    Too many people being nasty in this thread, so we've removed the negative comments for rule 3.

  • Unable to load posts from lemmy.world

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  • Too many people being rude to eachother, locking it. Lets be better.

  • St. Paul, MN, was hacked so badly that the National Guard has been deployed

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  • I'm guessing some people don't know (or forgot) that site-to-site and remote access VPN's are a thing, and was the initial purpose of VPN's. Masking or hiding your location became a benefit after the fact, and todays more common client VPN is technically a remote access VPN with a new purpose.

    Remote access VPN's are a very common attack vector for companies, look up companies compromised with Fortinet gear and its typically through the firewalls VPN.

    In fact, a primary purpose of a VPN, spoofing your IP/geolocation, pretending you are someone you aren't... is pretty much antithetical to a highly controlled system of users with varying levels of access to specific, private areas of that system.

    Most modern remote access VPN's do exactly that, so it is not antithetical at all and is how most client VPN's keep you from accessing other users data. I would encourage you to read up on WireGuard and the like, they are fun to learn about and awesome tools when configured properly.

    Also, we removed the above comment because the last sentence was fairly rude and violates rule 3 @sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com

  • Former GM Executive: BYD cars are good in terms of design, features, price, quality. If we let BYD into the U.S. market, it could end up destroying american manufacturers

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  • Well it unfolded into what I described, so we removed the comments.

  • Former GM Executive: BYD cars are good in terms of design, features, price, quality. If we let BYD into the U.S. market, it could end up destroying american manufacturers

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  • ....we removed both parties comments because you both were going

    you: no your a troll

    them: no your a troll

    you: no your a troll

    them: no your a troll

    Not because we took sides.

    Calling eachother trolls is not being excellent to eachother (rule 3), if you want to talk about disagreements do it like adults.

  • Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever!

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  • forgot the name of website

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    Forgot this is a thing this month, someone reminded me above

  • LW: Announcing an April fools charity event!

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  • forgot the name of website

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