Work laptop was down to <10% free space. "Disk Cleanup" helped but every day the drive space kept being eaten by unknown bugs.
Here's the guy who had the answer:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/311235 ... drive.html
Went from 17gb free to 97gb free. Fun times deleting several hundred files @150mb each.
Windows 7 consuming hard drive space
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Re: Windows 7 consuming hard drive space
My version doesn't [yet] have that issue. I'm wondering how this guy figured this out. Does he somehow have the Windows 7 source code or is he just a fucking great detective.
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Re: Windows 7 consuming hard drive space
At the end he thanks a poster named "ch100" who probably got the information from this post on Microsoft:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/win ... 040c4eedfa
Looks like that person figured it out but doesn't say how.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/win ... 040c4eedfa
Looks like that person figured it out but doesn't say how.
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Re: Windows 7 consuming hard drive space
No such problem on W10 – time to upgrade? 
Nevertheless I run a cleaner (e. g. http://www.wisecleaner.com/wise-disk-cleaner.html) before shutting down. Gets rid of ~ 500 MB on a daily basis, much more after an install or update.
Works nicely for me since my first PC.
N. B.: Some progs like Google Earth can also very quickly build a discreet cache in the GBs.
Nevertheless I run a cleaner (e. g. http://www.wisecleaner.com/wise-disk-cleaner.html) before shutting down. Gets rid of ~ 500 MB on a daily basis, much more after an install or update.
Works nicely for me since my first PC.
N. B.: Some progs like Google Earth can also very quickly build a discreet cache in the GBs.
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Re: Windows 7 consuming hard drive space
It's the work laptop. I can do some things to it but not many things.
There was a 3.3 gig log file in there from a year ago. WTF. Apparently the system has been trying and failing to make a .cab file out of it every 20 minutes that entire time.
Unrelated: I had to call a client's service desk to unlock my user account on their system. He asked if he could log in to my system remotely to set it up for me. I told him that "I'm not authorized to authorize that," and he laughed. "Fair enough!"
There was a 3.3 gig log file in there from a year ago. WTF. Apparently the system has been trying and failing to make a .cab file out of it every 20 minutes that entire time.
Unrelated: I had to call a client's service desk to unlock my user account on their system. He asked if he could log in to my system remotely to set it up for me. I told him that "I'm not authorized to authorize that," and he laughed. "Fair enough!"
The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.
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