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LuLWaT
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And all of a sudden, BAM. 21.2GB free of 111GB

 

The only things I manually installed are software such as Steam or Chrome. I don't know how it has gotten so full. I have removed 1GB with CCleaner but dont know what else to do. Any help? Thanks ! :)

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Just remove everything you don't really use.

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And all of a sudden, BAM. 21.2GB free of 111GB

 

The only things I manually installed are software such as Steam or Chrome. I don't know how it has gotten so full. I have removed 1GB with CCleaner but dont know what else to do. Any help? Thanks ! :)

You got your steam games on it? Because if steam is on the SSD the steam games are installed on it as well. (unless you change the path to another drive)

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remove the hibernation file

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Run WinDirStat, find the biggest files, make sure they're unimportant, and remove them from the drive. Chances are, it's the hibernation and pagefile.

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You got your steam games on it? Because if steam is on the SSD the steam games are installed on it as well. (unless you change the path to another drive)

Nope, changed the path to my HDD.

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Nope, changed the path to my HDD.

Hmmm, do what @Jade said as well as @Enderman. They are good solutions 

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Water,make sure that it is NOT disstiled

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well, 40% is being taken up by the windows folder and i don't know if i can remove anything from there.

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And all of a sudden, BAM. 21.2GB free of 111GB

 

The only things I manually installed are software such as Steam or Chrome. I don't know how it has gotten so full. I have removed 1GB with CCleaner but dont know what else to do. Any help? Thanks ! :)

 

Hey LuLWaT,
 
You can move your pagefile to the HDD and try using the Disk Cleanup tool from the options menu in My Computer. Other than that I would recommend seeing what takes that much space in your SSD and manually moving or deleting it. It is recommended that you have 12%-15% of free space in order for the SSD to work optimally (caching purposes). The OS should take up around 35GB.
 
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Just remove the unessential files that you dont need or get a new sdd, Personally id raid them in 0 because i back up my files regularly (to my hdd) and i dont worry about data loss but choose what ever one caters to your personal uses 

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Shrink your pagefile if you have a good bit of RAM

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I think i may have found the problem.

 

http://gyazo.com/239d9b461c9fcbb03a579b489d9d86b9

 Hot diddly damn, shrink that sucker.

 

Or turn it off if you don't want it.

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Where are your steam games installed that might be a cause, also have you moved your page file? If not move that to your fastest large drive that is internal. 

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