Windows 10: System Files taking up 424 GB

Discus and support System Files taking up 424 GB in Windows 10 Network and Sharing to solve the problem; I created a 50GB Windows partition on my MacBook, but the "necessary" system files are somehow taking up over 400GB. I can't download anything and it's... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Network and Sharing' started by Laura (sinkle), Feb 24, 2019.

  1. System Files taking up 424 GB


    I created a 50GB Windows partition on my MacBook, but the "necessary" system files are somehow taking up over 400GB. I can't download anything and it's very frustrating, because none of my attempts to free up space have helped!


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    :)
     
    Laura (sinkle), Feb 24, 2019
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  2. Zablas Win User

    System files take up to 70 GBs.

    Hello everyone! Today I'm here with a very serious problem as stated in the title. Over the past 2 weeks free space on my SSD has been disappearing for no actual reason. I haven't been installing anything on it. I checked Disk Cleanup and I found out that
    "System error memory dump files" take up around 48 GBs. I cleaned them out but the space never came back and after rechecking Disk Cleanup the files were still there. I also checked how much do my system files take up and they take up almost 70 GBs. I have
    tried using many cmd prompt commands tod delete the MEMORY.DMP file but it just won't delete. It's not even in the C:\Windows folder which is the current set location for it. I have downloaded WindirStat and found out that there are 2 jxbrowser folders (one
    in System32 and other in SysWOW) which take up 48Gigs EACH. I am really not sure what to do because my SSD is on 5 GBs of free space. I REALLY need some help!
     
    Zablas, Feb 24, 2019
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  3. Johan45 Win User
    AMD FX OC'ers Club

    That's what the auto setting will do since you're over the 1333 mark it jumps to the next step which isn't listed or officially supported I assume by that ram.

    At this point though I would suggest dropping the multi one step or .5 so that we can get something stable and possibly take the heat issue out of the picture for now.
     
    Johan45, Feb 24, 2019
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  4. bexica Win User

    System Files taking up 424 GB

    Problem with over 200 GB of system files


    I have a 64-bit Windows 10 PC, I built it a few years ago with Windows 7 and did the free Windows 10 upgrade last year. My hard drive is a modest 500 GB but I recently I noticed I am almost out of room so I went to investigate why. When I used Windows 10 Data Usage tool, I saw that my personal files accounted for less than half the hard drive space used. System files took the other half, specifically 217 GB of System files. I looked it up and I think Windows 10 64-bit takes up 20 GB of space. What the heck is going on here then? I have a very few games- Hearthstone, Portal, etc- and some basic utility files like LibreOffice, Gimp, iTunes, etc. Any suggestions for finding my mystery hard drive hog are welcome.
     
    bexica, Feb 24, 2019
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