MarcVl Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 After defragmenting the hard disk of a old PC (Windows 7 Pro) with Defraggler about 120Gb of free disk space had been lossed. Restoring the systenm to a previous date didn't work. How can get back the free disk space? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcVl Posted April 25, 2022 Author Share Posted April 25, 2022 I have solved the problem by cleaning the disk with cleanmgr.exe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators nukecad Posted April 26, 2022 Moderators Share Posted April 26, 2022 Defraggler shouldn't have created any temporary files that the built in Windows Disk Cleanup (cleanmgr.exe) would then remove. It is possible to get temporary files left behind if your computer crashed or was turned off during the defag. But if that happens then you usually have to remove them manually yourself, Disk Cleanup doesn't know what they are to remove them.. Oh well, as long as Disk Cleanup removed whatever was taking the 120GB then you are good. *** Out of Beer Error ->->-> Recovering Memory *** Worried about 'Tracking Files'? Worried about why some files come back after cleaning? See this link:https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/52668-tracking-files/?tab=comments#comment-300043 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willy2 Posted May 8, 2022 Share Posted May 8, 2022 - Right. When "System Restore" is active then running Defragler (think: moving files around) will trigger Windows to make an additional System Restore Point. Hence the loss of free diskpsace. System setup: http://speccy.piriform.com/results/gcNzIPEjEb0B2khOOBVCHPc A discussion always stimulates the braincells !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators nukecad Posted May 8, 2022 Moderators Share Posted May 8, 2022 You shouldn't see any difference as Windows has a maximum space already allocated for Restore Points, and if that's full then when creating a new one removes the oldest. The 120GB reported by the poster seems way too much to be a Restore Point, Windows normally allocates about 10GB for all RPs. *** Out of Beer Error ->->-> Recovering Memory *** Worried about 'Tracking Files'? Worried about why some files come back after cleaning? See this link:https://community.ccleaner.com/topic/52668-tracking-files/?tab=comments#comment-300043 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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