Windows 10: C drive space not freed after deleting a program.

I installed a file containing 2 programs from a pirate website. After deleting one of the apps, I checked my C drive and the space wasn't freed. When I tried downloading the second program I stopped it mid through because I decided I wouldn't really need it. However it still claimed storage space somehow. Both programs took about 2 gb and although not a lot I still wonder why the space hasn't come back after 3 days. I searched the name of the app I had downloaded on File Explorer yet I found no files related to it. I did an antivirus scan and everything turned out well. I've performed a disk c

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Deleted Windows.old, not enough disk space freed

1. Did you empty the recycle bin ? If not, empty it.
2. Delete the contents under: C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download
   Those are downloaded Windows Updates files and already installed.
3. Open Admin command, copy and paste the line below then run:
   Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup
   This should remove all the no longer used by component store. Will take a while to run.

 

C: drive keep losing space

So, today my computer started being unusable, i went to 'my computer', C: drive had like, about half a GB free, out of 111GB, so i started deleting stuff, and moving to D: drive.

Now at this point i freed about 9GB from C: drive.

Fast forward less than an hour, C: drive have 449 MB free;

I didnt do anything in that time except skyping someone and browsing facebook.

Any suggestions to what may take space this fast?

Any programs that have this affect?

 

Deleted Windows.old, not enough disk space freed


As the title suggests, only 9 gigabytes of disk space appear to have been freed after deleting roughly 18 gigabytes worth of old Windows files via Windows Disk Cleanup. Since the Windows.old folder still exists even after the cleanup, I decided to check the folder properties to see if the folder still took up some space, but it was completely empty, save for a few empty subfolders that I didn't have permission to delete myself. I tried Disk Cleanup a second time, but it did not give me the option to delete old Windows files. Anybody got an answer for me? Please hurry. My poor SSD is suffering. It needs more games.