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Completely agree with John, 40 GB is way too small. &nbsp;My C: drives are 120. <br />
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IS this a VM?<br />
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Have you moved the pagefile off the C: drive? &nbsp;Look at user profiles and downloads within them (maybe you have a downloaded SQL service pack you didn't delete?)
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Completely agree with John, 40 GB is way too small.  My C: drives are 120.

IS this a VM?

Have you moved the pagefile off the C: drive?  Look at user profiles and downloads within them (maybe you have a downloaded SQL service pack you didn't delete?)

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Download and run CleanupMgr without Desktop Experience<br />
<a href="http://www.sami-lehtinen.net/blog/download-cleanmgr-exe-for-windows-server-2012r2-2008r2" rel="ugc">http://www.sami-lehtinen.net/blog/download-cleanmgr-exe-for-windows-server-2012r2-2008r2</a>
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Download and run CleanupMgr without Desktop Experience
http://www.sami-lehtinen.net/blog/download-cleanmgr-exe-for-windows-server-2012r2-2008r2 [http://www.sami-lehtinen.net/blog/download-cleanmgr-exe-for-windows-server-2012r2-2008r2]

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Either way works so it is not necessary to run without Desktop Experience. You can use either way.
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Either way works so it is not necessary to run without Desktop Experience. You can use either way.

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You are very welcome and I was happy to help
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You are very welcome and I was happy to help

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Hi<br />
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I'd like some &quot;expert&quot; guidance to help me create space on the C drive of a 2012 Server R2.<br />
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It is an important database server, so just wanted to run it by the experts before I mess around with it.<br />
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I have 0.5GB of free space on the C drive. Which is 40GB. The winsys folder is about 8-9GB... is there a quick way I can get some free space back to tide me over. I will expand the volume at a later date but am hoping for quick solution to buy me some time?<br />
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If it makes any difference it is a virtual machine.
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Hi

I'd like some "expert" guidance to help me create space on the C drive of a 2012 Server R2.

It is an important database server, so just wanted to run it by the experts before I mess around with it.

I have 0.5GB of free space on the C drive. Which is 40GB. The winsys folder is about 8-9GB... is there a quick way I can get some free space back to tide me over. I will expand the volume at a later date but am hoping for quick solution to buy me some time?

If it makes any difference it is a virtual machine.

Disk clean up on Server 2012 R2

Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media used to retain digital data. In addition to local storage devices like CD and DVD readers, hard drives and flash drives, solid state drives can hold enormous amounts of data in a very small device. Cloud services and other new forms of remote storage also add to the capacity of devices and their ability to access more data without building additional data storage into a device.