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How to reclaim space after Visual Studio 2013 updates?

Before installing VS 2013, I expanded the volume of the 20 GB VM. After installing VS 2013, only 8 GB is left. Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 took another 6GB of my hard drive. I haven't even installed C ++ and WinPhone SDK.

I tried to find one that takes up so much space.

  • Disk Cleanup shows nothing to recover.
  • The 1GB rate is not associated with VS.
  • VS 12.0 folder in program files is 2.3 GB (changed a bit here after update).
  • Setting up shadow copies

My OS is Windows Server 2008 R2

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I think you are right, by updating Visual Studio you will be running out of disk space. This is problem. If I have an SSD hard drive.

Regardless of where your Visual Studio is installed, it eats up disk space on the Windows drive. Files taking up space in the following path:

C: \ ProgramData \ Cache \



There is a debate about whether to delete this folder or not online.

There are other things (besides the folder above) that take up disk space, you can run disk cleaning software and remember to select things like this (they may not be selected by default):

  • Windows Update
  • Temporary software installation
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I have an 80GB SSD and a large hard drive. The VS installation was using too much space on the SSD, what I did was copy some of its folders to my hard drive, delete the original folders and then link them to the original paths as directory transitions. So far we have not noticed any problems with this agreement.

  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs

    points to D:\ssd\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs

  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits

    points to D:\ssd\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits

  • C:\ProgramData\Package Cache

    points to D:\ssd\ProgramData\Package Cache



Saved about 6 GB on my SSD.
Postscript When I read about what cache memory is, I thought it was one of Microsoft's funniest ideas.

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