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Hi, i've noticed that my C:\ drive keeps filling itself up without any reason. I'm not installing any new software, not downloading anything in it and it's only for system files and softwares. A few days ago, i had 162GB free. A few days later, i only have 137GB free? I haven't installed any new software and still so much of my space is going somewhere? What i have tried to fix it: 

 

Running disk cleanup and cleaning unneccassary files. No Windows.old or Upgrade folder was there

Deleting temporary files from %temp% directory

Disabling and deleting system restore points

Emptying my recycle bin

Running a complete scan of C:\ drive from Windows defender to check for malware (none found)

Double checking all of my C:\ drive folders to look for any videos or photos etc.

 

None of the methods stated above helped me in the way i was expecting them to. Any help would be greatly appericieated.

Thanks!

 

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Did you run the disk cleanup utility with pushing the system files (with the admin badge) to check again?

 

Usuallym what I find in my drive hogging space are Windows Update files, Previous versions after bigger patches, files waiting to get send to MS (usually over 1 gb), Ram dumps after crashes... 

 

And another thing... the browsers Cache files... My chrome (iron) folder in my profile once was above 30 gb 😃 ... 

 

 

Just had to fresh install due to a product form Citrix wrecking my poor old windows... 

 

Currently, and I'm still missing some programs, I'm ad 140 gb of 227 gb free

 

Main System:

Anghammarad : Asrock Taichi x570, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X @4900 MHz. 32 GB DDR4 3600, some NVME SSDs, Gainward Phoenix RTX 3070TI

 

System 2 "Igluna" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

System 3 "Inskah" AsRock Fatal1ty Z77 Pro, Core I5 3570k @4300, 16 GB Ram DDR3 2133, some SSD, and a 2 TB HDD each, Gainward Phantom 760GTX.

 

On the Road: Acer Aspire 5 Model A515-51G-54FD, Intel Core i5 7200U, 8 GB DDR4 Ram, 120 GB SSD, 1 TB SSD, Intel CPU GFX and Nvidia MX 150, Full HD IPS display

 

Media System "Vio": Aorus Elite AX V2, Ryzen 7 5700X, 64 GB Ram DDR4 3200 Mushkin, 1 275 GB Crucial MX SSD, 1 tb Crucial MX500 SSD. IBM 5015 Megaraid, 4 Seagate Ironwolf 4TB HDD in raid 5, 4 WD RED 4 tb in another Raid 5, Gainward Phoenix GTX 1060

 

(Abit Fatal1ty FP9 IN SLI, C2Duo E8400, 6 GB Ram DDR2 800, far too less diskspace, Gainward Phantom 560 GTX broken need fixing)

 

Nostalgia: Amiga 1200, Tower Build, CPU/FPU/MMU 68EC020, 68030, 68882 @50 Mhz, 10 MByte ram (2 MB Chip, 8 MB Fast), Fast SCSI II, 2 CDRoms, 2 1 GB SCSI II IBM Harddrives, 512 MB Quantum Lightning HDD, self soldered Sync changer to attach VGA displays, WLAN

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Maybe take a look at the drive with WinDirStat. It might help finding the folder that is containing most of datafill.

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Do you really care? You have nothing more interesting to do? All programs, games, browsers etc write lot of data. Don't worry about it.

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