Free Up Space on a Windows PC for AI, Gaming and Development
Find which models, caches and Windows files fill your PC's drive, and get the space back without breaking a model setup, a game library or Windows itself.
Each article stands on its own, because which of these fills your drive depends on what you run. Start with the first if you don’t know yet; it matches each large directory to the part that covers it.
The first article gives the steps to run yourself and a prompt for your own coding agent that measures and reports without deleting anything. Its numbers come from one Windows 10 PC.
6 parts · 1 published
- Part 1
How to Find What's Taking Up Space on Your C: Drive with PowerShell
You finish with each large C: folder matched to its owner, whether an AI model folder, a package cache or the hibernation file, and to the cleanup it needs.
- Part 2
Find and clear crash dumps and error reports
Where Windows and applications write crash dumps and error reports, and how to measure what clearing them gives back
Announced — not published - Part 3
Keep or move AI models without downloading them again
ComfyUI checkpoints and the Hugging Face cache, which you still use, and how to tell them from models you don't
Announced — not published - Part 4
Find the uv and pip caches no command on your PATH owns
Package caches in AppData\Local left by a tool an application bundles or one you uninstalled, and why a cache hard-linked into a virtual environment frees less than its size
Announced — not published - Part 5
What games and launchers leave on your drives
Shader caches and launcher downloads, and why an installed game library is not a cleanup target
Announced — not published - Part 6
Shrink what Windows keeps for itself
The hibernation file, Windows Update downloads and the component store, with the commands Windows provides for each
Announced — not published