originalucifer comments on Lately, my Windows 10 hard drive is being used up for no reason whatsoever - I'm pretty sure it was Windows Update that's causing it. What should I do?

submitted 9 months ago* by DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/techsupport@lemmy.world

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OS: Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 64-Bit and Linux (dual-booting on separate hard drives)

CPU: Intel Core i7 9700K

RAM: 32GB

Motherboard: MSI Z3-90-A PRO (MS-7B98)

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770

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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

could try: start -> disk cleanup -> hit the 'clean up system files' button bottom left

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com [S] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Other than that

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[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

It's probably WinSXS.

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[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 3 points 9 months ago*

Yeah, I had a surface laptop that had 60GB in there. Real handy when it's only got 128GB of storage.

I used PatchCleaner and it did the job.

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