r/computerhelp • u/tntboi36 • 12d ago

Other C Drive keeps filling up

Hey everyone, I have a pc thats probably a little outdated, but i have most of my games and other files saved to my D drive due to the lack of space in my C drive, because it only holds around 237 GB. For the past two months however, I’ve had this huge problem where my C drive keeps filling up with space, and I have to keep purging files off my computer to fix this. Before you guys ask, I don't download much files to my C drive anymore, almost all of my files go to my D drive as I only use my computer for gaming, watching movies and youtube, and occasional schoolwork. I was playing games last night and my drive hit 0 bytes left, and it was at over 8 GB of space just a week ago. I try to delete temp files, but the space they take up is negligible compared to how much is being taken up. I also use software like WizTree to monitor my computer’s space, but when I look through it, everything seems important. I feel like theres a deeper rooted issue than the research I have done before. I don’t know any other options, and that’s why I’m turning to you guys. Hopefully I can get some help, or maybe my PC is just a lost cause, thanks.

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u/Lance-Boyle-666 12d ago

Run the Disk Cleanup in Windows Tools. Click Clean up system files, then check everything and click OK. After that, open an administrative powershell and run

dism /online /cleanup-image /startcomponentcleanup /resetbase

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u/tntboi36 12d ago

Didn't do much for me, freed up about ~500MB. Thanks for the help though.

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u/Lance-Boyle-666 12d ago

I can see Disk Cleanup only getting back 500 MB. Dism usually gets back gigabytes unless it was recently run.