Space on my hard drive keeps dissappearing

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Elitemonkeys32

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In the past 2 weeks about 70gb's of free space on my C drive has disappeared, but i have not installed anything on my computer and all my games are installed on a separate 1 tb hard drive. My main drive is a ssd ocz vertex 460 240gb. If you could help me find an explanation to what has been happening that would be great.
 
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There's a lot of possible answers.

Temporary files add up over time and most don't clean out unless you tell them to. If you hibernate or sleep your machine (or just never turn it off) then that data can just sit there being useless until you personally tell it to ditch it. Ditto for webcaches and similar chunks of purposesless data that your computer makes use of.

Paging files used by the OS to store things that won't fit in RAM can add up to. It's generally bad practice to put these on an SSD so if that's happening I'd move the page file out onto your HDD.

If your system was poorly set up your machine may be setting up new system restore points or other such backups.

Equally you could easily have set the download directory of...
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LostAlone

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There's a lot of possible answers.

Temporary files add up over time and most don't clean out unless you tell them to. If you hibernate or sleep your machine (or just never turn it off) then that data can just sit there being useless until you personally tell it to ditch it. Ditto for webcaches and similar chunks of purposesless data that your computer makes use of.

Paging files used by the OS to store things that won't fit in RAM can add up to. It's generally bad practice to put these on an SSD so if that's happening I'd move the page file out onto your HDD.

If your system was poorly set up your machine may be setting up new system restore points or other such backups.

Equally you could easily have set the download directory of your browser or iTunes or bittorrent onto your SSD (or they defaulted to there after a crash or update) and so all your downloads are clogging up your SSD when they shouldn't.

It's unlikely to be anything really malevolent, but definitely chase it down.
 
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Kashif_Khan

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Hi,
Solutions:
1. check your "C:\WINDOWS\Temp" folder, if not empty then within that folder press Ctrl + a and after that press and hold Shift key and press del key. Empty Temp folder.

2. Try to check your Drive with Antivirus.
 
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i7Baby

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Every time the PC does another System Restore another 3 to 5 percent of your disk space is used.

Decrease the size of the space allocated for System Restore points.

Control Panel, System and Security, System, Advanced System Settings, System Protection
 
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