Windows 10 has eaten all of my SSD

[Clive Loynes]

I have a pc with a 110Gb SSD and it keeps telling us that it is low on disk space.

The reason is that Windows 10 has snaffled 95Gb of it and I can't see how to get it to give it back!

When I look at the Windows folder it seems to contain about 20Gb, which I could live with but the System and Reserve accounts for 95Gb.

Any ideas?

All the info that I find talks about keeping my files somewhere else but that is not the problem.  It's poxy W10 itself!

[dave curtis]

Maybe research this first,  but on my old 32GB/2GB RAM  non-upgradeable machine,  now & again I'd run (from command-prompt with elevated privileges):

#1: Run Cleanup Manager
To set options:

Code:

cleanmgr /D C /sageset:65535

To perform cleanup operation:

Code:

cleanmgr /D C /sagerun:65535

#2: Remove previous updates/service packs
After updates/system running ok for a while, would analyse WinSxS folder  & reduce size if possible.

To show current details

Code:

dism.exe /online /cleanup-image /AnalyzeComponentStore

If rather large, would perform "resetbase" operation.
Note: installed service packs/updates cannot be uninstalled after this.
Future installed updates/packs can be removed, unless this is run again at a later time..

Code:

dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase

(apologies if I've introduced any typo whislt copying manually from another machine)

There will probably be other suggestions.  I'm not claiming to be any kind of expert,  but maybe try searching online re: dism.exe before running

Good luck!

[Clive Loynes]

Thanks Dave.

I'm now well and truely baffled.

[Cookie]

Look if you have multiple restore points, if you have the restore system set to short intervalls it can eat lots of GB too

Delete all but the last known working point

[Clive Loynes]

Look if you have multiple restore points, if you have the restore system set to short intervalls it can eat lots of GB too

Delete all but the last known working point

Thanks Axel.

[Clive Loynes]

So far I have failed to attain admin status.   

[phspok]

Perhaps your user is a standard user.
Fire up control panel, go to user accounts, then user accounts again.
do you have an "administrator" account? is your Clive (whatever your user is called
say local account/administrator? if not can you log in with the administrator account?
give your self administrator prvivs if you can

For recovering disk space, the simplest, and possibly not requiring admin privs is to
go to the start menun, scroll down to "Windows administrative tools" and select "disk cleanup"
tick any boxes that say they have some content, and then say yes.

[Burtoner]

I have found this handy software tool to use that works out where all the disk space is going
Called WinDirStat



Tells you how big folders are and sub folders as well.