Something is eating up my SSD space and I can see it filling up!

Cloiu1

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So before I went to sleep last night, I had somewhere in the ballpark of 100GB free space on my C disk (232GB after OS). This morning I had exactly 0. I read some other threads about this problem, and tried some solutions but I couldn't find anything that fixed it.

The part which makes me think it's some kind of virus is that after clearing my recycling bin I went to check how much space I had left and I had cleared about 40GB, and as I refreshed the page I could see the space going down.

As I hit refresh over and over I had to watch as something filled up the entirety of my SSD without any other processes going on in the background (apart from steam installing one game to D drive). Got the warnings from windows saying I need to free up disk space, clicked on that and the largest thing I could get rid of was on the scale of MB...

I'm a bit lost of what to do! I've scanned it with Avira and Malwarebytes but nothing has come up...

Anyone had something like this before?
 
Hi there Cloiu1,

I believe that it would be a good start to adjust your system restore settings. You can delete all previous restore points. Also, you can reduce the space allocated for system restore: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/5482/make-system-restore-use-less-space-in-windows-7/

Here are some other things you can try in order to free up some space: http://www.howtogeek.com/125923/7-ways-to-free-up-hard-disk-space-on-windows/

If nothing helps, you can use some disk analyzing tool.

Hope this will help,
D_Know_WD :)
 

Cloiu1

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Hi,

Adjusting the system restore settings is part of what I'd tried before posting. However since posting a lot more relevant suggestions have come up! Using spacesniffer, in the time that I was sleeping up until this very second, there have been about 150gb of windows temp files made.

https://i.snag.gy/Wv5O7M.jpg all of those cab files apart from a very small amount have all been made in the last 9 hours!

(yes my sleep schedule is odd, I know)

Is it possible to find whatever is making all these? I'm not very knowledgeable with computers so sorry if this is a well known problem with an easy fix :(
 

Cloiu1

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Oct 11, 2016
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The bit that helped was:

Solution was:
in <windows>\Logs\CBS folder delete the oldest .log file (you can also delete them all)
in <windows>\temp folder delete every cab_xxxx

And seems to have fixed everything for now, thank you!
 

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