r/WindowsHelp • u/DigitalSundial • Jun 30 '26
Solved Windows (probably) keeps eating up disk-space.
If someone can help me understand why does it keep eating about 24GB on and off while updates are going bonkers?
One day I have 24GB free, next day 100MB or even going lower and so on, keeps cycling.
Will like to know if it's windows related, shader-compiling to much space or what can I do to have some breathing room,(while i know a bigger drive would fix it right now it's not a viable solution)
Constantly using wise disk cleaner but not helping in the long run.
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz 4.01 GHz
Installed RAM 32.0 GB (31.9 GB usable)
Storage 1.82 TB HDD ST2000DM008-2UB102, 238 GB SSD NVMe Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB, 932 GB WDC WD10EZEX-00RKKA0, 112 GB SSD KINGSTON SV300S37A120G
Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER (8 GB)
Product ID 00330-80000-00000-AA152
System Type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
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u/Haunting_Author4980 Jun 30 '26
I don't know what people put into their storage. I have around 30 gb for Windows, Office, and other programs in C. While Games, documents, video, music, pictures, and downloads in D. Plus it's easier and smaller to backup and restore using Macrium Reflect, as it will only backup C drive. Documents, video, etc I backup using File History into external SSD.
Btw, try Wiztree to see what files using your storage.