Why is my SSD filling up quickly?
RCXDINBOUND
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Hello guys, I own an ACER NITRO 5 and I've been experiencing an unpleasant experience regarding the SSD, I have one game installed on it [Rainbow six siege}, the OS and steam. {OS APPS like edge etc are already installed} And I keep consistently losing up space, yesterday it was 15 GB free, today it somehow became 8 Gigs today, nothing new was installed. Can anyone help me please?
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Hi RCXDINBOUND,RCXDINBOUND said:Hello guys, I own an ACER NITRO 5 and I've been experiencing an unpleasant experience regarding the SSD, I have one game installed on it [Rainbow six siege}, the OS and steam. {OS APPS like edge etc are already installed} And I keep consistently losing up space, yesterday it was 15 GB free, today it somehow became 8 Gigs today, nothing new was installed. Can anyone help me please?
Every game will have its update and temps. When the computer updates the game also update if its having an update.it will consume the space and also the temp files. you can do a clean boot,delete the temp and prefetch for better performance.
*Press the home button+r, or type "run" in search and open it. Then type "prefetch" and press enter; a dialogue box will pop up. Simply press "continue" and delete all the files from the folder.
*Similarly do the same for temp also.instead of prefetch,type %temp%.
* type msconfig in start search and hit Enter to open the System Configuration Utility. Click the General tab, and then click Selective Startup. Clear the Load Startup Items check box, and ensure that Load System Services and Use Original boot configuration are checked.Next, click the Services tab. Select the Hide All Microsoft Services check box. Now click Disable all.
Click Apply/OK and restart the computer. This will put Windows into a Clean Boot State.
If the clean boot helped you fix the error, fine! Else in the General tab, also click to clear the Load System Services check box, click Apply/OK and restart.
*Similarly go to startups and disable the startups.
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RCXDINBOUNDWindows Explorer is useless when it comes to working out where your hard drive space is being used.Click the link below to download a small free utility called Treesize. Using that tool, you will instantly see where this space is being usedOnce you have worked out where this space is being user, please let us know so we can advise on what is safe to remove.If TreeSize shows CBS.log folder to be the culprit, here is the Fix:Click your Start Button, type services and hit Enter to open the Services appScroll down to find the Windows Modules Installer service and double-click on itSet its startup type to ManualRestart your SystemThen open Windows File ExplorerGo to C:\Windows\Logs\CBSDelete all of the files in the CBS folderRestart your PCThen go back into the Services App and set Windows Modules Installer Service back to Automatic Startup.
Hit 'Like' if you find the answer helpful!
Click on 'Yes' if the comment answers your question!I hope this helps! If this was useful, please hit 'Yes' or 'Like'! Thanks! 😊
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Hi RCXDINBOUND,RCXDINBOUND said:Hello guys, I own an ACER NITRO 5 and I've been experiencing an unpleasant experience regarding the SSD, I have one game installed on it [Rainbow six siege}, the OS and steam. {OS APPS like edge etc are already installed} And I keep consistently losing up space, yesterday it was 15 GB free, today it somehow became 8 Gigs today, nothing new was installed. Can anyone help me please?
Every game will have its update and temps. When the computer updates the game also update if its having an update.it will consume the space and also the temp files. you can do a clean boot,delete the temp and prefetch for better performance.
*Press the home button+r, or type "run" in search and open it. Then type "prefetch" and press enter; a dialogue box will pop up. Simply press "continue" and delete all the files from the folder.
*Similarly do the same for temp also.instead of prefetch,type %temp%.
* type msconfig in start search and hit Enter to open the System Configuration Utility. Click the General tab, and then click Selective Startup. Clear the Load Startup Items check box, and ensure that Load System Services and Use Original boot configuration are checked.Next, click the Services tab. Select the Hide All Microsoft Services check box. Now click Disable all.
Click Apply/OK and restart the computer. This will put Windows into a Clean Boot State.
If the clean boot helped you fix the error, fine! Else in the General tab, also click to clear the Load System Services check box, click Apply/OK and restart.
*Similarly go to startups and disable the startups.
Accept if its Helpful. 0 -
RCXDINBOUNDWindows Explorer is useless when it comes to working out where your hard drive space is being used.Click the link below to download a small free utility called Treesize. Using that tool, you will instantly see where this space is being usedOnce you have worked out where this space is being user, please let us know so we can advise on what is safe to remove.If TreeSize shows CBS.log folder to be the culprit, here is the Fix:Click your Start Button, type services and hit Enter to open the Services appScroll down to find the Windows Modules Installer service and double-click on itSet its startup type to ManualRestart your SystemThen open Windows File ExplorerGo to C:\Windows\Logs\CBSDelete all of the files in the CBS folderRestart your PCThen go back into the Services App and set Windows Modules Installer Service back to Automatic Startup.
Hit 'Like' if you find the answer helpful!
Click on 'Yes' if the comment answers your question!I hope this helps! If this was useful, please hit 'Yes' or 'Like'! Thanks! 😊
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I am betting you have the same issue I had. I am not sure if this is the default way it’s set up on the Nitro or if Staples did this to me but they put windows in the small hard drive and had the 1TB hd undiscoverable & sitting there unused. I put World of Warcraft on there & I had no room for anything else at all! 9 months of owning Nitro, a friend of mine opened it up to clean cat hair out and discovered that it had 2 hard drives & that was my issue as I only had 2GB left. Now that we’ve moved everything onto the 1TB hd I have tons of room. Was this a ploy to get servicing $$ from us? IDK but now I can FINALLY use it for more & not think I wasted $$.RCXDINBOUND said:Hello guys, I own an ACER NITRO 5 and I've been experiencing an unpleasant experience regarding the SSD, I have one game installed on it [Rainbow six siege}, the OS and steam. {OS APPS like edge etc are already installed} And I keep consistently losing up space, yesterday it was 15 GB free, today it somehow became 8 Gigs today, nothing new was installed. Can anyone help me please?0 -
Mine is a AIO C24 865 with 128gb ssd. I found that it was filling up at an alarming rate down from 80gb free space to 29gb in one afternoon.
History and anything saved to Desktop was being saved to the ssd.
Discovered this by Right clicking on Windows Start then This PC and checking the free disk space.
Then stopped Onedrive (which was also saving files to ssd) Then cleared History and transferred files saved to Desktop to HDD, Free space is now back to 80GB.
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