Heaps of storage on my SSD seems to be taken up by something I cant find

Is this a Windows 10 upgraded unit? There's a good chance that about 25GB of that is the windows.old backup file, which can be deleted.


Take a look at this, and there should be some relevant information in there to help clear out the clutter. I recommend you do ALL of the following.



To delete all but the most recent restore point


1. Open Disk Cleanup by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button. In the search box, type Disk Cleanup, and then, in the list of results, click Disk Cleanup.

2.If prompted, select the drive that you want to clean up, and then click OK.

3.In the Disk Cleanup for (drive letter) dialog box, click Clean up system files. Administrator permission required If you're prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

4.If prompted, select the drive that you want to clean up, and then click OK.

5.Click the More Options tab, under System Restore and Shadow Copies, click Clean up.

6.In the Disk Cleanup dialog box, click Delete.

7.Click Delete Files, and then click OK.




Then go into Windows explorer, or my computer, and in the left hand navigation pane, click on your C: drive.

In the right hand column double click the Windows folder.

Navigate to the Temp folder and open it. Select everything inside that folder and right click then select delete.

Go to your recycle bin and empty it.


To check your virtual memory settings, do the following:


Open System by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button, right-clicking Computer, and then clicking Properties.

2.In the left pane, click Advanced system settings. Administrator permission required If you're prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

3.On the Advanced tab, under Performance, click Settings.

4.Click the Advanced tab, and then, under Virtual memory, click Change.

5.Clear the Automatically manage paging file size for all drives check box.

6.Under Drive [Volume Label], click the drive that contains the paging file you want to change, likely only C:.

7.Click Custom size, type a new size in megabytes in the Initial size (MB) or Maximum size (MB) box, click Set, and then click OK.

I recommend setting the minimum to 256MB and the max to 2GB. Don't forget to click the button that says "Set" after you make the changes, then OK, or it won't record the changes.

If there is a windows.old folder on your C:/ drive, which you can check by opening Windows explorer and clicking on your C:/ drive in the left hand pane, then looking at the list of directories in the right hand pane, try to delete it. It may be necessary to allow disk cleanup to remove it so if you run disk cleanup and choose the "cleanup system files" option, then check every box and click ok twice, it should clean up a significant amount of space.