Mystery!

exscentric

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About a month ago this happened, again today. I have 80 gig left on my drive. All of a sudden it is down to 9 this morning. I begin cleaning, and every time I delete a bunch of junk I check and there is less drive space left. This went on for a couple of hours, ending up with about 5 gig free. I decide to reboot to see if that helps. When it comes back up I am back up to 80 gig. During the boot process I get a message indicating there is an update underway. Then for several minutes there is a message that there is cleanup of files going on.

There have been no updates suggested (Have windows update to check and let me decide what to download) and no indication that an update was underway.

From all indications MS was doing something major on my drive without permission/knowledge that was taking 75 gig of drive space.

Anyone know what they might have been doing?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    win 8
^Hmmm, have not seen this. Run something like windirstat or treesizefree while it is happening and see what is growing would be my only suggestion.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 7
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Self-Built in July 2009
    CPU
    Intel Q9550 2.83Ghz OC'd to 3.40Ghz
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R rev. 1.1, F12 BIOS
    Memory
    8GB G.Skill PI DDR2-800, 4-4-4-12 timings
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA 1280MB Nvidia GeForce GTX570
    Sound Card
    Realtek ALC899A 8 channel onboard audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    23" Acer x233H
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1080
    Hard Drives
    Intel X25-M 80GB Gen 2 SSD
    Western Digital 1TB Caviar Black, 32MB cache. WD1001FALS
    PSU
    Corsair 620HX modular
    Case
    Antec P182
    Cooling
    stock
    Keyboard
    ABS M1 Mechanical
    Mouse
    Logitech G9 Laser Mouse
    Internet Speed
    15/2 cable modem
    Other Info
    Windows and Linux enthusiast. Logitech G35 Headset.

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Asus Tansformer Book Flip TP500LN
    CPU
    Intel i5-4210U
    Memory
    8GB DDR3 SDRAM
    Graphics Card(s)
    Nvidia Geforce GT 840M
    Monitor(s) Displays
    15" Touchscreen
    Screen Resolution
    1366 x 768
    Hard Drives
    1TB Hybrid
    Mouse
    Microsoft Wireless Mobile Mouse 4000
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