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RaVenBelgium
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Greetings

I installed Windows 10 about a year ago on my pc, clean installed it with formatting the SSD, and all my programs I have on a seperate SSD. Still the C-drive was getting more and more full, no idea how but I thought that maybe it was temporary update files for Windows so I left it alone. It came to the point today where I had another update for Windows 10 again and it said I don't have enough space available on the C-drive, so I open Disk Clean-up (that option was given) and then something weird showed up. Apparently I have 3.99TB of Windows Update Clean-up files that can be removed with the Disk Clean-up, but my SSD is only 120GB (Programs SSD also 120GB). Where does the Disk Clean-up program get the other 3.8TB of? Or is it just a bug and it's not showing the correct values?
Also does anyone know how it comes that my C-drive gets full? I only installed Windows/Graphics drivers/necessairy drivers on C, all the rest (games and programs and data) are on other drives so I'm quite confused... 

If anyone could help me, that'd be greatly appreciated!

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CPU: Intel Core i7 4790K @ 4.4GHz (cooled by Corsair H110) | Motherboard: ASUS Maximus VI Formula | RAM: 16GB DDR3 1600MHz CL9 | GPU: ASUS GTX780TI-DC2OC-3GD5 | Case: NZXT Phantom 630 | Storage: Samsung 840 Pro 128GB + 3 x WD Black 500GB  + WD Black 1TB + WD Black 2TB + Kingston V300 120GB | PSU: SeaSonic Platinum 660W | Monitors: 3 x Iiyama ProLite XU2390HS-1 | Keyboard: Logitech G910 Orion Spark | Mouse: Logitech G502 Protheus Spectrum | Mousemat: Steelseries QcK Heavy (40x45) | Headset: Kingston HyperX Cloud II | Speakers: Logitech Z906

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2 minutes ago, SDJlegion said:

I know this sounds stupid but have you cleared the recycling bin? I was low on space for months and it took me all that time to realise the recycling bin was taking up all that space!

Recycle bin is being cleared every week, it has 0 items in it at this moment

CPU: Intel Core i7 4790K @ 4.4GHz (cooled by Corsair H110) | Motherboard: ASUS Maximus VI Formula | RAM: 16GB DDR3 1600MHz CL9 | GPU: ASUS GTX780TI-DC2OC-3GD5 | Case: NZXT Phantom 630 | Storage: Samsung 840 Pro 128GB + 3 x WD Black 500GB  + WD Black 1TB + WD Black 2TB + Kingston V300 120GB | PSU: SeaSonic Platinum 660W | Monitors: 3 x Iiyama ProLite XU2390HS-1 | Keyboard: Logitech G910 Orion Spark | Mouse: Logitech G502 Protheus Spectrum | Mousemat: Steelseries QcK Heavy (40x45) | Headset: Kingston HyperX Cloud II | Speakers: Logitech Z906

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seems like a glitch. Just perform the clean up and should be fine. 

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8 minutes ago, RaVenBelgium said:

Recycle bin is being cleared every week, it has 0 items in it at this moment

could be restore points as well. I was wondering why I lost so much space on my HDD to find out that I have literally 300 GB of system restores. You can also place a limit on system restores

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7 minutes ago, Ramamataz said:

could be restore points as well. I was wondering why I lost so much space on my HDD to find out that I have literally 300 GB of system restores. You can also place a limit on system restores

Hmmm, good idea, I'll check it out!

CPU: Intel Core i7 4790K @ 4.4GHz (cooled by Corsair H110) | Motherboard: ASUS Maximus VI Formula | RAM: 16GB DDR3 1600MHz CL9 | GPU: ASUS GTX780TI-DC2OC-3GD5 | Case: NZXT Phantom 630 | Storage: Samsung 840 Pro 128GB + 3 x WD Black 500GB  + WD Black 1TB + WD Black 2TB + Kingston V300 120GB | PSU: SeaSonic Platinum 660W | Monitors: 3 x Iiyama ProLite XU2390HS-1 | Keyboard: Logitech G910 Orion Spark | Mouse: Logitech G502 Protheus Spectrum | Mousemat: Steelseries QcK Heavy (40x45) | Headset: Kingston HyperX Cloud II | Speakers: Logitech Z906

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CPU: Intel Core i7 4790K @ 4.4GHz (cooled by Corsair H110) | Motherboard: ASUS Maximus VI Formula | RAM: 16GB DDR3 1600MHz CL9 | GPU: ASUS GTX780TI-DC2OC-3GD5 | Case: NZXT Phantom 630 | Storage: Samsung 840 Pro 128GB + 3 x WD Black 500GB  + WD Black 1TB + WD Black 2TB + Kingston V300 120GB | PSU: SeaSonic Platinum 660W | Monitors: 3 x Iiyama ProLite XU2390HS-1 | Keyboard: Logitech G910 Orion Spark | Mouse: Logitech G502 Protheus Spectrum | Mousemat: Steelseries QcK Heavy (40x45) | Headset: Kingston HyperX Cloud II | Speakers: Logitech Z906

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