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  1. booneht
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    Windwos 7 Home premium 64bit
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    Huge Windows folder in system drive - Windows 7 64bit...


    Hi.

    The windows folder in my C: drive keeps growing on a massive scale...Yesterday the folder was around 13 gb...Now it is close to 18gb...

    When i first installed the OS i had allocated only 19gb for OS...But windows chewed up all this space fast and i used a partition software to increase size to 40gb...Immediately after restart the size of c drive increased to 22 gb....What is going on...Please help.

    The steps i have taken so far..

    Reduced pagefile size
    Turned off hibernation or sleep mode..It freed up some space..
    Used ccleaner
    Defragmented
    Used malware bytes anti-malware to scan...
    deleted temp files in windows


    But nothing seems to help...It just keeps growing even though im not saving anything in it ...All my software, music etc i store in other drives...Please Help..windows update is enabled...Could this be the cause?Wats the size of ur windows folder :)
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  3. theog
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    Your partition is to small, there is no room for Restore Points, I would make partition about 100gb.

    System Protection Restore Points - Delete
    System Restore - Enable or Disable
    System Restore
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  4. Lovus
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    You can configure system restore disk usage in the instruction on the above .
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  6. Sir George
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    booneht said:
    Hi.

    The windows folder in my C: drive keeps growing on a massive scale...Yesterday the folder was around 13 gb...Now it is close to 18gb...

    When i first installed the OS i had allocated only 19gb for OS...But windows chewed up all this space fast and i used a partition software to increase size to 40gb...Immediately after restart the size of c drive increased to 22 gb....What is going on...Please help.

    The steps i have taken so far..

    Reduced pagefile size
    Turned off hibernation or sleep mode..It freed up some space..
    Used ccleaner
    Defragmented
    Used malware bytes anti-malware to scan...
    deleted temp files in windows


    But nothing seems to help...It just keeps growing even though im not saving anything in it ...All my software, music etc i store in other drives...Please Help..windows update is enabled...Could this be the cause?Wats the size of ur windows folder :)
    Common reasons for rapid and unexpected disk space consumption are backup files and system restore points, which are essentially backup files.

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  7. booneht
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    Thanks guys...Freed up some space after looking at the system restore tutorials...can you please tell me how to find back up files...i downloaded a manage back up app frm ths website and it is not able to find any back ups...can any plz tell me wats the usual average size of windows folder?
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