My C Drive space keeps going way down! (win7-64bt)

truewraith · 29 Nov 2019 at 10:50

hi

noticed this for a while now and i can be fine at around 30gig on c drive then after a day its around 7gb and i reboot and clear system restore files and bin etc via disk cleanup and its still sits at around the same 7gb size and i dont download any files on c drive then after a few days and reboots its back to normal size again but like today its back down to 7gb and i dont know what to delete or what is causing it. i really hope someone can give me some tips please on what is going on or what i can try...

huge thanks for any help

Wegason · 29 Nov 2019 at 11:01

Do you have a large page file and is swapping onto the C drive?

Quartz · 29 Nov 2019 at 11:13

And then there's the hibernation file too. How large is your C: drive?

Deleted member 77746 · 29 Nov 2019 at 12:31

Run this and see what's causing it.

https://windirstat.net/

truewraith · 29 Nov 2019 at 12:58

thanks, i used the app and it shows pagefile.sys 17gig, hiberfil.sys 13gig? how do u clear that or somehow stop it or something. my ssd drive is only 120gb

Deleted member 77746 · 29 Nov 2019 at 13:12

https://smallbusiness.chron.com/reduce-pagefilesys-size-53940.html
https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/15140/what-is-hiberfil.sys-and-how-do-i-delete-it/

bledd · 29 Nov 2019 at 17:35

Disable system restore, will help too.

CCleaner slim, this will clear out temp files etc.

truewraith · 29 Nov 2019 at 20:09

thanks very much for all that info guys i will look in to it asap.

b00merang69 · 29 Nov 2019 at 21:32

Delete your pr0n folder, you will get many GB's back.

truewraith · 3 Dec 2019 at 03:21

is it safe to remove pagefile.sys entirely in the advanced options?

Rroff · 3 Dec 2019 at 03:28

To avoid potential issues best not - if you are space constrained set pagefile to Initial size 1024MB, max 8192MB.

Hibernation can be disabled entirely.

Another potential space hog is Spotify if you use it - the cache can grow to several GBs unless you manually change the way it works - google Spotify cache size. You might find things like previous video drivers are also being stored especially if you've previously used nVidia at all.

truewraith · 3 Dec 2019 at 10:23

Rroff said:
To avoid potential issues best not - if you are space constrained set pagefile to Initial size 1024MB, max 8192MB.

Hibernation can be disabled entirely.

Another potential space hog is Spotify if you use it - the cache can grow to several GBs unless you manually change the way it works - google Spotify cache size. You might find things like previous video drivers are also being stored especially if you've previously used nVidia at all.

k thanks i will do that and yeah i use spotify and will also look into that too. thanks again for the help

bobuk · 3 Dec 2019 at 13:07

Do you have an apple phone backing up on C drive ? I know mine will fill the drive up over a couple of months.

DJ85 · 3 Dec 2019 at 13:09

bobuk said:
Do you have an apple phone backing up on C drive ? I know mine will fill the drive up over a couple of months.

Could be this, I found 2 iphone back ups 30gb each that I got back