[SOLVED] Free storage space on my HDD disappears slowly

[Kronenbouget]

Hello everyone,

some time ago I ran the Disk Cleanup Tool on my Windows 7 machine and a Disk Defrag after that, since I have a lot of old stuff on my 1 TB drive, which i have since 2010.

The thing is that upon booting, I have around 90 GB free space, and as time goes on it slowly goes down to around 30 or 20 GB. This repeats itself on every boot.

Any idea of what's going on? Thanks.

 

[rgd1101]

malware scan?
use winstatdir https://windirstat.net/ to see what taking up space?

 

[Kronenbouget]

malware scan?
use winstatdir https://windirstat.net/ to see what taking up space?

Running that right now, will return prob tomorrow with results

 

[popatim]

Run it as Admin please.

 

[Kronenbouget]

Run it as Admin please.

Not sure what I am looking at here...

 

[popatim]

On the top right, 147GB in log files ?

 

[Kronenbouget]

On the top right, 147GB in log files ?

The first part seems to come from C:\Windows\Logs\CBS, and the other one appears to come from C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportQueue

 

[SkyNetRising]

Over 300GB in temp folder?
Clean out c:\windows\temp\

 

[Kronenbouget]

Over 300GB in temp folder?
Clean out c:\windows\temp\

Is it safe to completely delete that folder though? I'm totally new to this part of PC building and such and I'm not sure

 

[USAFRet]

Is it safe to completely delete that folder though? I'm totally new to this part of PC building and such and I'm not sure

Delete the contents, not the folder.

 

[Kronenbouget]

Delete the contents, not the folder.

Going to do that now and see what happens!

 

[popatim]

Cbs logs can be an issue and cause windoes to drastically slow down. Im on my phone right now so cant guide yiu thru it. Thus might help
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.co...sion-bug-can-fill-up-your-hard-drive.amp.html

 

[Kronenbouget]

Cbs logs can be an issue and cause windoes to drastically slow down. Im on my phone right now so cant guide yiu thru it. Thus might help
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.co...sion-bug-can-fill-up-your-hard-drive.amp.html

Just read that and I'm going to give it a try tomorrow, since I no longer have access to my PC until then! Thanks!