[SOLVED] Large disk space consumption (Windows 7)

I’ve run into this on a system and wanted to share.

I was having aproblem with disk space and used diruse.exe utility to isolate an folder that was using an enormous amount of disk space.  The folder was in the ProgramData\Microsoft folder.

The article link is:  http://www.admin-enclave.com/en/articles/windows/133-taming-the-wer-windows-error-reporting-on-windows-7-2008.html was very helpful.

 

Basically, the Windows Error Reporting service captures errors and gathers data that may be related to a crash (i.e. files) and stores them in the C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportQueue folder.  I had 33 GB of extraneous data there that I used the method in the link to clean up.

 

The WER service never deletes these files that it captures.  Absolutely, crazy!

 

 

-Reggie