Question I can't find about 10GB file on my SSD !!!

[Artaherzadeh]

Hi
I installed my Windows 10 on a WD SSD. It was okay unitl tonight. Now 51GB of the drive is full but when I select all folders including hidden and system folders, they are only 41GB. Also Windows is not using my SSD as RAM and system restore is off. No virus on my PC I'm using Kaspersky.
How can I fix this ? I had 68GB free space and now it's 60.
Someone said that storage reserved for the pagefile is equal to my RAM. Last night I upgraded my RAM to 16GB.
Thanks

 

[USAFRet]

Install either WinDirStat or WizTree
Run as Administrator, selecting only the drive in question.

Post a screencap here.

 

[Artaherzadeh]

Install either WinDirStat or WizTree
Run as Administrator, selecting only the drive in question.

Post a screencap here.

https://imgur.com/VPxq3SX

View: https://imgur.com/VPxq3SX

https://imgur.com/FCwy7Kr

View: https://imgur.com/FCwy7Kr

The wierd thing is I lost 6-7GB without installing anything or changing the settings.
Edit : Kaspersky free folder size was about 200-300MB now it's 3.4GB.

 

[USAFRet]

Your hibernation file is sucking up 6.4GB.

 

[USAFRet]

To turn that hibernation function OFF, and recover that space:
From an admin commandline window, powercfg.exe /hibernate off

 

[Artaherzadeh]

To turn that hibernation function OFF, and recover that space:
From an admin commandline window, powercfg.exe /hibernate off

Thanks. Kaspersky free folder is 3.4GB. Is Windows Defender good enough to protect my PC from the trojans and viruses from the internet ?

 

[USAFRet]

Thanks. Kaspersky free folder is 3.4GB. Is Windows Defender good enough to protect my PC from the trojans and viruses from the internet ?

Given good browsing habits, yes. It is fine.

 

[monali2015m]

Your hibernation file is sucking up 6.4GB.

thank that was very helpful
pagefilesys are taking 9.5 gb is that normal ??

 

[USAFRet]

thank that was very helpful
pagefilesys are taking 9.5 gb is that normal ??

Depends on your settings and how much RAM you have.
But yes, 9.5GB is not out of the ordinary.

 

[mdd1963]

120 GB SSDs are increasingly a challenge in space management when used as OS drives....

(A good time to remember that a Crucial MX500 in it's 500 GB variation is but $65 these days, or, about the same is 10 cups of premium coffee!)

 

[mdd1963]

To the OP: Windows often reserves more space than necessary for a recycle bin (sometimes 10%), but, you can set this manually to be only 2 GB, or whatever size you'd like to maximize available space....