Alright I am not a IT/techie person; not an idiot but I run a department with operational focused technology and know jack shit about home computers and windows platform etc. So....the issue is
I need to download Net framework to play a video game. I go to download it says I need 2 or 3 GB space free but doesn't allow me to pick where its downloaded. It is reading my existing C/drive which is only a 37 GB SSD hardrive to run windows (a few things have got on there but nothing significant that I can find). After trying for hours to find shit to delete to allow me to have room to download this I found my winsxs file is huge as shit. I read claims its not actually that large but regardless I can't initiatie a download so apparently it is real or takes place of real space used when its looking at what I can download.
So I made sure I had the most recent windows 7 service pack update etc; spent hours reading shit trying to figure out how to get rid of these files and the answer always came up to just run disk clean up and click on clean up system files and it would add an option that would delete old backups not needed in winsxs (windows update something will show up on your disk cleanup options. Well I don't see that and I am at a loss. The file is showing 19+ GB still and I can't download .Netframe since it shows only 1 GB free on my C:drive.
Any of you smart/experienced guys have any ideas? Also fuck MS for honestly being this god damn fucking stupid to think its a good idea to have a part of their system that can literally create files that will ultimately prevent you from being able to run the damn system without a automated deletion process. I don't know jack shit about computers but am smart enough on some SQL application VM's to know we had to setup something to delete logs/files generated from our application or eventually the fucker is going to fill up.
Any help would be appreciated. Also I have an external HD and a very large secondary SSD for all my games in my gaming computer but doesn't do me any good when I can't fucking pick where I want it to save the file.
I need to download Net framework to play a video game. I go to download it says I need 2 or 3 GB space free but doesn't allow me to pick where its downloaded. It is reading my existing C/drive which is only a 37 GB SSD hardrive to run windows (a few things have got on there but nothing significant that I can find). After trying for hours to find shit to delete to allow me to have room to download this I found my winsxs file is huge as shit. I read claims its not actually that large but regardless I can't initiatie a download so apparently it is real or takes place of real space used when its looking at what I can download.
So I made sure I had the most recent windows 7 service pack update etc; spent hours reading shit trying to figure out how to get rid of these files and the answer always came up to just run disk clean up and click on clean up system files and it would add an option that would delete old backups not needed in winsxs (windows update something will show up on your disk cleanup options. Well I don't see that and I am at a loss. The file is showing 19+ GB still and I can't download .Netframe since it shows only 1 GB free on my C:drive.
Any of you smart/experienced guys have any ideas? Also fuck MS for honestly being this god damn fucking stupid to think its a good idea to have a part of their system that can literally create files that will ultimately prevent you from being able to run the damn system without a automated deletion process. I don't know jack shit about computers but am smart enough on some SQL application VM's to know we had to setup something to delete logs/files generated from our application or eventually the fucker is going to fill up.
Any help would be appreciated. Also I have an external HD and a very large secondary SSD for all my games in my gaming computer but doesn't do me any good when I can't fucking pick where I want it to save the file.