Losing space in my SSD drive

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KKSunstrider

KKSunstrider

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Lately I noticed my main drive has been gradually losing space, since it went from 20 GB of free space a month ago to 2 GB as of today. I only have Windows and a few games installed in it, the rest of my games are installed on my other drive. I haven't installed anything lately and I've already checked for System Restore points space (which is disabled for both drives).
Any opinions?
 
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CountMike
Did you do Disk cleanup/Clean up system files ? Try also this program, very safe: http://joshcellsoftwares.com/products/uncleaner/ after.
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KKSunstrider

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Yes, I did disk cleanup several times already. The program you indicated cleaned a bit, but it doesn't really matter considering the space slowly fills up again.
 
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amtseung

amtseung

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The only things I can think of now are an abnormally large Windows page file and an untrimmed SSD. Windows' obscure services eating through available memory and storage space isn't anything new. Turning off superfetch gave me back a buttload and a half of performance, as well as some disk space. YMMV.

A month or two ago, someone came here asking about exactly the same thing. I don't think it was ever resolved though.
 
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KKSunstrider

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Yes, I imagined Windows page file would be it, but I checked for that too and apparently it isn't. Superfetch is disabled already, and it's a relatively new SSD. Then I went to the next option, which would be a really f*cked up virus, but I scaned with Kaspersky and BitDefender and nothing. This is super annoying, I need to be constantly trying to find dead files (which don't fill more than 100 mb of space) to clean to have any space available at all. I don't recall this happening when the system was installed on a HDD, so it's more frustrating.
 
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Do you remove all the files from the disk clean up?
 
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KKSunstrider

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Well except trash can (which had 0 bytes), yes.

 
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