clearing up space

[Olinee]

I uninstalled Origin from my 250GB SSD and some how that ate up 40GB of space instead of clearing up space. Why did this happen? I cleared out some other stuff like Steam and the games I had on Steam. Everything was normal until I uninstalled Origin. Restarting my computer changed nothing.

[The Cool n00B]

Did the games uninstall with it? You could try CCleaner. I've used it, and it's cleared 10+ GB from the SSD for me.

[alexhelvetica]

Look at where you installed origin, and see what is left, then delete it!

[Olinee]

Any game I had installed through Origin onto my SSD I made sure to uninstall as well. The other games from Origin are installed on my hard drive. Nothing is left of Origin on my SSD so I'm a little curious what the heck is eating up all that space. I had more space before I uninstalled it and now I have less.

[Captain_WD]

I uninstalled Origin from my 250GB SSD and some how that ate up 40GB of space instead of clearing up space. Why did this happen? I cleared out some other stuff like Steam and the games I had on Steam. Everything was normal until I uninstalled Origin. Restarting my computer changed nothing.

 

Hey there Olinee,

 

Do check if the OS is making and recovery files or backups. Check the size of the pagefile and possibly reduce it or move it to another drive (if you have one in your system. you can disable hibernation and remove the hiberfil (this should reduce quite a lot of space). 

Do check for malware or unneeded registry files and cache. Clear everything from the recycle bin. Check if your apps on the SSD are making and temporary files.

 

Captain_WD.

[Dabombinable]

 

Hey there Olinee,

 

Do check if the OS is making and recovery files or backups. Check the size of the pagefile and possibly reduce it or move it to another drive (if you have one in your system. you can disable hibernation and remove the hiberfil (this should reduce quite a lot of space). 

Do check for malware or unneeded registry files and cache. Clear everything from the recycle bin. Check if your apps on the SSD are making and temporary files.

 

Captain_WD.

 

From what I've seen with Windows, recovery files are probably the culprit, I've had Windows use nearly all of the remaining capacity on my 60GB SSD after I simply rolled back multiple failed updates (the SSD is only a boot drive so capacity isn't normally an issue).