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Low memory on C: drive after BSOD crash, suspecting malware.
Well a few days back, I had an unexpected BSOD crash. When the system rebooted, there were uninstalled updates, which I then installed. No crashes after that for some time. 2 days ago, I notice my C: drive memory depleting, showing just 2 GB free of 96.5 GB. Now because of this, my system performance slowed down and there were a few more crashes.
I suspected a malware in some file, so I researched a bit for memory scan softwares, and found out about SpaceSniffer, which I then downloaded and ran to scan the C: drive. It accounted for 37.3 GB used and there was a log generated, which I shall post in a reply as there isnit enough space on this message.
Anyways, now my disk space is down to just 100 MB free of 96.5 GB, and because of this I am not able to run a lot of programs. Would appreciate any immediate help. And I also want to let it known that Formatting and doing a clean install of Windows is gonna be my last resort as I do not have a Windows installation disc.
EDITED: Apparently the log is too big to be posted in one single reply. And also, I've analyzsed the C: drive with Advanced SystemCare and it showed that the path "C: > Windows" was occupying about 60 GB while it just showed as 18.2 GB on the SpaceSniffer scan.
The log in the SpaceSniffer scan showed that access is denied into one folder with path "C: > Windows > system32 > config > systemprofile". I suspect that's the problem folder, but as i said access to that is denied even though I have administrative rights.