How to resize Users folder on Windows 7 (64 bit)

Question

I have windows 7 64 bit installed. In c drive, there is Users folder which is full of empty folders but it occupies almost 50 GB on my c drive. Is this normal and is there a way to shrink it? please. thanks. (note: my c drive is 200 GB in total).

Answer 1

This isn't a clean install, right? This is an upgrade of an existing system?

You can use Disk Quotas to limit directory sizes, but your real question seems to be why you have a 50 GB Users directory.

Note that the Users directory includes a directory for each account on the system, and then there are subdirectories for lots of common items - e.g. Downloads, My Documents, My Music, My Videos, the Desktop, etc.

While there are likely lots of empty directories, there probably is a valid 50 GB of content there. Probably worth drilling down a bit and trying to find the actual files.