SSD Randomly Filling up

viper999991 · Jun 15, 2013

Ok I have a SSD as Primary and a 2TB regular HDD. When I Turn on the PC there is a surge of Storage from before I turned it off. After about oh 3-5 min it goes down and then starts to fill up to a certain extent. I have my Secondary Hard Drive for all my games/music/ECT. I have all documents going there aswell as all the Other Folders for Downloads/Ect. I have the Hybernation thing off. I am at wits end trying to figure this out I have Windows 7 BTW.

JackNaylorPE · Jun 15, 2013

SSD size ?

where are temp files being stored ?

Using Cleanup ?
http://www.stevengould.org/index.php?Itemid=69&id=15&option=com_content&task=view

ac130 · Jun 15, 2013

I made a stupid comment a few years ago that I regret.....

viper999991 · Jun 15, 2013

JackNaylorPE :

Well I just ran that and it took out 4gigs of my SSD Think the Temp File location isn't set to my Secondary drive.

Oh and its a 120gig I beleave SSD

JackNaylorPE · Jun 15, 2013

Control Panel / System / Advanced System Settings / Environment variables

Move to D:\Temp

viper999991 · Jun 15, 2013

JackNaylorPE :

Yup that fixed it must of slipped by me long time ago when I built this PC thank you very much. Have Rebooted PC now and it is not getting random increases anymore. Thank you again.

Kill5witch · Jun 20, 2015

How to I move to D:\Temp? I'm in where I can see the user variable and system variables but do I edit or new?

I just BSOD and my ssd is constantly running out of space. My resource monitor is showing my system pid 4 is writing constantly :-/

Thank you for any help!

JackNaylorPE · Jun 21, 2015

Where are you getting lost ?

1. Create a folder named Temp on your Hard Drive, presumably D:\Temp

2. Click through Control Panel / System / Advanced System Settings / Advanced tab / Environment variables Button

You will see something like

Temp = %Systemroot%\Temp

3. Click on it and hit Edit button, change to

TEMP = D:\Temp

4. Rinse and repeat with:

TMP = %Systemroot%\Temp

Kill5witch · Jun 21, 2015

Dude, you rock. But I just used ccleaner like a moron - I didn't do that before. Totally fixed it.

JackNaylorPE · Jun 21, 2015

Be careful.... at default settings ccleaner disk cleanup can remove things you may wanna keep in your browser.

Also the registry cleaner should be used very judiciously.

JackNaylorPE · Jun 21, 2015

Be careful.... at default settings ccleaner disk cleanup can remove things you may wanna keep in your browser.

Also the registry cleaner should be used very judiciously.

Note, if ya done, pick a best answer and the thread will be marked solved

Kill5witch · Jun 21, 2015

i'ts already marked solved. I didn't start the thread or I would.

ac130 · Jun 21, 2015

Kill5witch :

In the future refrain from reviving an old thread that has already been solved. Instead what you can do is make a new thread and link this one, specifying what is not understood.

Also it could be a good idea to PM the person who solved that question. They might still be active on this forum.

Kill5witch · Jun 21, 2015

The reason I responded to this thread was because I googled it and this popped up. It's infuriating when you don't get a succinct answer so I helped someone in my position.

ac130 · Jun 21, 2015

Kill5witch :

Well that makes sense. I guess that is pretty helpful. Never thought of that. Anyway if you wanted to do that maybe post a clarification after you got one from another thread so people get answer points

213mug · Jan 24, 2016

JackNaylorPE :

Do I change User Variables? Do I change System Variables? Do I change both? You put instructions on here, but don't specify the most important thing.

Adnan Najeeb · Jun 19, 2016

JackNaylorPE :

What does doing that do exactly? I haven't tried it, and I don't know what it would do.

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