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C drive space disappearing
I'm constantly losing space on my C drive and the situation seems to be getting even worse recently: every time I use the computer I lose at least 0.5 GB of space on C, which means that getting on my computer twice a day costs me 1 GB of space. I keep deleting files or moving them to D. Usually, after an unpredictable amount of time, some space (but always less than what's been lost) is freed up for no reason that I can see: last week I had 6 GB free and then suddenly the free space was 10 GB even though I'd done nothing. But today the C drive was down to 2 GB even though I've moved files to D drive, and I'm getting desperate since moving stuff does nothing about the actual problem. I deleted 12 GB of photos, but all that free space has vanished.
I've tried some of the suggestions I've seen online, but the most space I've ever freed using cleanmgr has been less than the 0.5 GB I now lose every time I use the computer. I always clear my internet history when I close a browser. I just deleted 4 GB of old Windows Updates, but I've lost more space than that this week alone. The virus scan shows nothing. I'm wary of trying stuff like deleting System Restore; I'm a total amateur and my computer language isn't English, which makes instructions harder to follow since I have to try to interpret and translate terms I don't know.
What could explain the speed at which I'm losing so much C drive space? Why does some, but not all of it, reappear without me doing anything (this is something I haven't seen people mention when they write about disk space problems)?