Huge Windows folder in system drive - Windows 7 64bit...

[booneht]

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

 

[theog]

Your partition is to small, there is no room for Restore Points, I would make partition about 100gb.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/336-system-protection-restore-points-delete.html
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/81500-system-restore-enable-disable.html
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/700-system-restore.html

 

[Lovus]

You can configure system restore disk usage in the instruction on the above .

 

[Sir George]

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.

HTH

 

[booneht]

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?