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Selereth

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I have a 120 GB Kingston SSD which acts as my primary drive (OS, major programs, etc.) and recently it seems to be randomly filling up even though I haven't been installing anything or downloading anything onto the drive. When I click Properties on all the selected folders on the drive it displays only using 42 GB of space, but in My Computer it displays as 93 GB being taken up.

I disabled the hibernation (this is a laptop), reduced the size of the page file to 3 GB and just deleted my restore points as well, and the amount of space left hasn't changed. What gives?
 
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dark_lord69

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Trust the "My Computer" size.
...because right clicking on the folders will not show sizes for hidden files unless you unhide them.

Also, if you have a second drive you can specify that the computer should use that for a paging file which will reduce the amount of disk space taken.

Have you tried rebooting since you made those changes?
 
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Yes, I have reboot several times since making those changes and nothing has changed. However, I did run WinDirStat and it tells me that there's an unknown space taking up 42 GB which matches the amount of space that I should have free.

My guess is it's restore files or maybe even shadow copy files taking up that space but I don't know why it's so large or how to reduce the size, and disabling restore points in System Protection did nothing, plus the max amount of space that restore points should be able to occupy is 7 GB.

 
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