C drive almost full, but should not be.

[Tommy_23]

Every day my C drive space I getting smaller. I do not download anything except some music but that's saved on another drive.

When I select all the folders in C drive it says it's only taking 35GB, not 48. Look at the picture..

Could someone help please?

 

[Emerald]

is this a laptop or desktop?

How much memory does the system have? if you have 8GB, the system has set aside 8GB for a pagefile/swap file.

Is hibernation enabled? If hibernation is enabled, the system reserves about 4GB for the hibernation file.

also hidden files might not be included in the space used count.

 

[Boogieman_WD]

Hey there, Tommy.

Basically @Emerald has covered the possible issues pretty well. I just wanted to add a tutorial on how to free up some of your storage capacity and a way to find out what might be filling up your space. Check out this article http://www.howtogeek.com/125923/7-ways-to-free-up-hard-disk-space-on-windows/. Make sure that you check System Restore to see if there are a lot of System Restore points, which could also take up quite a lot of space.

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD

 

[Tommy_23]

Ok, so I started up the PC today and it has 8gb of free space. I haven't got a clue what happened Thank you Gentlemen anyways