How to recover space after Visual Studio 2013 updates?

Question

Before installing VS 2013 I expanded my VM volume to have 20GB free space. After installing VS 2013 only 8GB was left. Visual Studio 2013 update 3 took another 6GB of my hard drive. I haven't even installed C++ and WinPhone SDK..

I've tried to find what does take so much space.

• Disk Cleanup shows nothing to recover.
• Temp is 1GB not related to VS.
• VS 12.0 folder in program files is 2.3GB (not much changed after update in here).
• No shadow copies configured

My OS Windows Server 2008 R2

Answer 1

I think you are right, updating Visual Studio will eat disk space , It is a problem If like me have an small SSD hard disk.

No matter where your Visual Studio is installed , it eat disk space on Windows drive. The files occupying space in the following path:

C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\

There is discussions about whether delete this folder or not on the web.

There are other things (except above folder) that take disk spaces, you can run Disk cleaner softwares and be sure to select things like (they may not selected by default):

• Windows update
• Software Temporary Installation