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

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

truewraith · 29 Nov 2019 at 20:09

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

truewraith · 3 Dec 2019 at 03:21

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

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