Windows System Drive Free Space

Intro
the purpose of this article is to provide a base to outline ways to clean up disk space issues.

Disk Clean up
The first and easiest way to clean up space on a disk drive is to run disk clean up


 * 1) Right-click on the drive and go to properties.
 * 2) click on the "disk cleanup" button, and follow the prompts

Windows updates

 * Open the directory C:\Windows\Software Distribution\Download and it should be safe to delete everything in this directory. if it is not the OS will usually stop you from deleting the files.

WWW Service logs

 * 1) open the directory c:\windows\system32\logfiles\w3svc1(or Some diritive like W3svc15465462138) and look for the logs, these logs are incredibly large files and the usually web servers will not delete them.
 * 2) move the logs to a different location if possible or delete anything older than six months

WIndirstat.exe
this is an easy to use utility that will graphically show you what is taking up space on your HDD, Check it out here: