SSD storage not making sense

[MysticDragon]

So a couple of days ago my ssd space was sitting at 160-220 gigs, then suddenly windows warns me it is at 40 gigs. 

 

I deleted all my games and everything and sure enough, I am sitting at 164 gigs before about 5 minutes later it turned too 158 gigs. 

 

All my files etc only add up too about 40-60 gigs, something is taking up constant ssd space and I cannot find it and I am not sure what it is.

[Ominous]

Run WinDirStat

[MysticDragon]

4 minutes ago, Ethan_ said:

Run WinDirStat

Just did, 100 gigs being used. 

 

Throwing two virus scanners at my computer now.

[MysticDragon]

That did nothing, sadly 

[mariushm]

Run Disk Cleanup with administrative rights ... delete temporary files. 

Make sure your page file (swap) is configured to some sane values. Maybe some application crashed or had some errors and made Windows increase the page file to some ridiculous value, which was reduced back to small values as soon as you closed the application or restarted the pc.

[MysticDragon]

2 minutes ago, mariushm said:

Run Disk Cleanup with administrative rights ... delete temporary files. 

Make sure your page file (swap) is configured to some sane values. Maybe some application crashed or had some errors and made Windows increase the page file to some ridiculous value, which was reduced back to small values as soon as you closed the application or restarted the pc.

Nothing at all, sadly 

[vanished]

Software like SpaceSniffer should show where all that extra space has been used.

[MysticDragon]

9 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Software like SpaceSniffer should show where all that extra space has been used.

Running that now 

[MysticDragon]

43 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Software like SpaceSniffer should show where all that extra space has been used.

Well it crashed 25% through, but windows own scanner says there are 228 gigs of temp files.

 

It however refuses to show me with

[mariushm]

Adobe Acrobat Reader and Adobe products in general are known to have bugs where they create very big temporary files.

If you have some Adobe apps open, try closing them and then empty temporary files (Try Disk Cleanup again)

 

You could also use Resource Monitor (open Task Manager and there's a button or link there) and click the Disk tab and see which program is writing to disk continuously

[MysticDragon]

1 minute ago, mariushm said:

Adobe Acrobat Reader and Adobe products in general are known to have bugs where they create very big temporary files.

If you have some Adobe apps open, try closing them and then empty temporary files (Try Disk Cleanup again)

 

You could also use Resource Monitor (open Task Manager and there's a button or link there) and click the Disk tab and see which program is writing to disk continuously

I am pretty sure it is the controller spoof software a friend and I used to make a ps3or ps4 controller act as a xbox in windows, nuking everything now. 

[MysticDragon]

Thank y'all for the help, I nuked my entire windows temp file. Now things make more sense