[nfbcs] Very puzzled before updating

[Jude DaShiell]

Please check the drive's partition sizes and contents of other 
partitions.  Your answer may be there.

On Sun, 20 Dec 2015, Jim Portillo via nfbcs wrote:

> Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2015 18:32:52
> From: Jim Portillo via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
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> Cc: Jim Portillo <portillo.jim at gmail.com>
> Subject: [nfbcs] Very puzzled before updating
> 
> Hi there.
>
>
>
> Remember yesterday when I asked about some issues regarding the tablet I was
> going to update for my friend?  Well, I'm quite puzzled after something I
> saw, which I frankly don't understand.
>
>
>
> This is a Dell Venue 8.1, solid state hard drive, 32GB.  It's exactly like
> the one I bought for myself a year or so ago, with which I've had absolutely
> no problems, even when updating.
>
>
>
> When I was about to update to Windows 10, I got a message saying that I
> needed at least 8GB in order to perform the update.  My friend is not very
> technologically inclined, and the only things that were installed so far
> were JAWS and Windows Live Mail.  So, I checked the PC settings, and that
> told me I had about 4GB available because the other 23GB were taken up or
> being used.
>
> How?  There's absolutely no way that can be.  I checked the programs.  The
> only other thing was MS Office and whatever other MS and Dell programs.  I
> went to try and free up disk space, and I deleted some of the apps I know
> she won't use.Including the mail app.
>
>
>
> So, what could be going on, or what is making this tablet use up so much
> memory?  For all intents and purposes, it's never been used.
>
> Any thoughts or suggestions would be great!
>
>
>
> Jim
>
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>
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