Troubleshooting and Supporting Windows 11: Creating Robust, Reliable, Sustainable, and Secure Systems

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M. HalseyTroubleshooting and Supporting Windows 11https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8728-6_11

11. Windows 11 File and Folder Structure in Depth

Mike Halsey¹  

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Genouillac, France

 

I’ve just done a count of how many files I have on the C: drive of my PC where Windows 11 is installed. It’s not a small number being 689,246 files in 139.196 folders, taking up a not insignificant 1.06TB of my 2TB SSD. This isn’t including my documents and files either, which I always store on a separate SSD and which consume 638GB on their own.

This is a lot of files then, but if we focus just on the C:\Windows folder where the bulk of the operating system resides, and that’s ...