Windows 10: What can cause my C drive to bloat 10-20 Gigs in a few minutes?

I try to keep my boot SSD HD lean. I have Win updates disabled until I want to update. I have as many things as I can find to prevent any kind of tampering with my computer by MS or anyone. I am connected to the internet, since I need to be.


I make a lot of image files of my C drive. Lately I've noticed unusual sizes of my images that are unexplained. For instance I reverted to a 29 Gig image, did some minor changes and made a new image file that was 43 gigs. I reinstalled Acronis and did some more images which are even larger 55 gigs.


So I reverted back to the 29 gig image and saw that my C drive was 50 gigs. The reason it's larger than the image is because when I make an image file it is compressed., so it's about half the size (similar to a zip file)


I rebooted and all of a sudden my C drive was 59 gigs. I didn't make any changes, just rebooted. How can my C drive bloat like that?


If I can answer this question, I may be able to find out why I'm getting considerably larger image files. Equally strange is a few hours later with the computer inactive it reduced back down to 50 gigs. My page file is about 2.5 gigs. I'm baffled. Any ideas?

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