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I have a Win10 computer that I built a couple of years ago as a budget gaming rig to play a couple of older games and do some light photo/video editing. One area that I saved money on was going on a smallish 222 GB SSD HD.
The past couple of weeks I've been noticing HD space shrinking and didn't think much of it until I started getting low disk space warnings. I'm talking about maybe 100 MB of free space. WTF.
I haven't installed any new apps or anything. So I went on a cleaning spree yesterday. I removed an extra browser (Opera) that I didn't really use anyway, couple of small apps like Spotify and Pandora, started moving documents and pictures to an external HD, and I removed a couple of games that WERE taking up a lot of space (but that had never been an issue until recently).
So I managed to free up some space and had 4.3 GB of room on my SSD. I logged into my desktop just now (I rarely turn it off) and got another low disk space warning. Checked and I was showing 0 free. WTF! Rebooted and 1.19 GB free.
WTF is going on? Is my computer infected with something? I've always been good with not installing anything from unknown sources. Hell I don't even download illegal apps anymore. Just the occasional movie.
Unless I can get this figured out, I may go ahead and wipe out the drive and start over. I'd rather not do that unless I have to but it's not that big of a deal to me either.
What I'm more concerned with is knowing why this is happening. Any ideas?
The past couple of weeks I've been noticing HD space shrinking and didn't think much of it until I started getting low disk space warnings. I'm talking about maybe 100 MB of free space. WTF.
I haven't installed any new apps or anything. So I went on a cleaning spree yesterday. I removed an extra browser (Opera) that I didn't really use anyway, couple of small apps like Spotify and Pandora, started moving documents and pictures to an external HD, and I removed a couple of games that WERE taking up a lot of space (but that had never been an issue until recently).
So I managed to free up some space and had 4.3 GB of room on my SSD. I logged into my desktop just now (I rarely turn it off) and got another low disk space warning. Checked and I was showing 0 free. WTF! Rebooted and 1.19 GB free.
WTF is going on? Is my computer infected with something? I've always been good with not installing anything from unknown sources. Hell I don't even download illegal apps anymore. Just the occasional movie.
Unless I can get this figured out, I may go ahead and wipe out the drive and start over. I'd rather not do that unless I have to but it's not that big of a deal to me either.
What I'm more concerned with is knowing why this is happening. Any ideas?
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