[HELP] C drive filling itself

[Shadow999]

Hello, i am having this problem where the C drive keep filling up itself for no reason. i am using windows 10. despite doing disk clean up my space goes from 209gb free to 205gb free. i have install nothing. googled a ton of things but nothing seems to help. what exactly is taking the space??? so annoying. lol.

 

[kandinsky]

Haven't moved to win10 yet, dunno if it might be a growing pagefile or hibernation file?

You can use something like windirstat or treesize free to find out where all the space is allocated:
http://windirstat.info/
https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/

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Just read something about System Protection: http://www.tenforums.com/general-discussion/8717-size-win-10-installation-seems-growing.html

http://www.tekrevue.com/how-to-enable-system-restore-windows-10/

 

[Shadow999]

Haven't moved to win10 yet, dunno if it might be a growing pagefile or hibernation file?

You can use something like windirstat or treesize free to find out where all the space is allocated:
http://windirstat.info/
https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/

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Just read something about System Protection: http://www.tenforums.com/general-discussion/8717-size-win-10-installation-seems-growing.html

http://www.tekrevue.com/how-to-enable-system-restore-windows-10/

ok thanks will read it up.

 

[enenyi]

Hello, i am having this problem where the C drive keep filling up itself for no reason. i am using windows 10. despite doing disk clean up my space goes from 209gb free to 205gb free. i have install nothing. googled a ton of things but nothing seems to help. what exactly is taking the space??? so annoying. lol.

Use DiskSpaceFinder from IntelliConcepts to see wad is hogging the C drive. I suspect its cache data in AppData folder.

 

[Shadow999]

thanks for sharing. and it solve my problem. free up 9gb of space. thanks alot. turn out it was the system protection thing that is taking up space. turn it off and delete the sytem restore point work.

this was the link that helped
http://www.tenforums.com/general-discussion/8717-size-win-10-installation-seems-growing.html

 

[djdestiny]

You can set it to keep only one shadow.

 

[nwh_sg]

thanks for sharing. and it solve my problem. free up 9gb of space. thanks alot. turn out it was the system protection thing that is taking up space. turn it off and delete the sytem restore point work.

this was the link that helped
http://www.tenforums.com/general-discussion/8717-size-win-10-installation-seems-growing.html

Unless you are running out of space on C drive, it's better to turn on the System Protection setting. It will save you precious time when your windows get corrupted. You can control the amount of space reserved for System Restore so it is not a big issue.

 

[lifeislame]

some lame application like anti virus generate log file

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[yusoffb01]

Don't disable system restore. If your PC can't boot, restore takes 1min. If u reformat and reinstall everything takes more than 30min