Windows 10: C drive filling up quick.

My C drive System drive had over 100GB of free space, but yesterday it started to fill-up automatically, and I can't find any files taking up that much of the space. I scanned my whole system using Kaspersky's Rescue disk utility and found no threats. Also when booted using this utility I calculated the size of each of the folders in the C drive with hidden files included but found that all the folders including Program Files, Windows and Users only occupy at most 279 GB the rest of110GB is still not accounted for.

Also, I tried deleting around 50GB of files from the system but that also filled up quick, leaving me barely 2-3GB of free space. Can someone please help me. I already tried the rescue disk from Kaspersky and found no malware/virus.

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C drive space filling

Have you check if Windows is currently downloading an update?

You can try the suggested steps on this article:

https://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmagic/...

This is a non-Microsoft website which would provide accurate and safe information. Watch out for ads on the site which are frequently classified as a PUP (Potentially Unwanted Products). There is no need to buy paid products to fix your computers as they do
more harm than good sometimes.

 

c drive automatically filling up

Another suggestion was this:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/for...

 

C Drive Keeps Filling Up

Thanks. Extremely interesting article. I followed the steps as outlined, but when I was as the step to Stop the Windows Modules Installer Service, it was already stopped. So I was not quite sure how to proceed, so I abandoned the process. Since I had
already manually deleted most of the cab files, I now have 190 GB free space. I will closely monitor the free space to see how quickly it fills up, and if it fills up as quickly as the article suggests might happen, I will try again to follow the instructions
to see if I can get it to work. With the service already stopped, and set to Manual, if I get to that point again, do you have any suggestions on how to proceed? Thanks again for this very insightful article -- it sure explains a lot.