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Giovanni98
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Yesterday I was clearing out my SSD of storage and was looking around the file. I was also doing my brothers then I noticed that our System files sizes were a lot different his was 14GB and mine was 56GB. This is pretty annoying due to my SSD only has 3 GB left of space which the 42 GB of data would really help me out. I then asked my other brother for his OS size his was 18GB and my friends was 20.7GB which is still a massive difference for the same OS windows 10. I removed the previous windows so I cannot go back to windows 8 months ago so that wouldn't be the reason my my OS is so big. Anyone know why it is so big and if I can make it around 20Gb the average instead of 56Gb because I really need the space because my ssd is 111Gb full out of 116 Gb full, thanks 

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Why not just reinstall windows and remove all the old junk files in your OS

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14 minutes ago, paprikman said:

Check the size of your swap file.

you can also check system restore points.

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