Filling up with nothingness?

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Froger

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Hi, iv got an SSD and 2 hard drives, and the SSD iv got keeps filling up with i don't know what, basicly, i had 2Gb of space when i deleted some stuff, then a few days left if started filling up with space, and i don't know where from.
i don't know how much i had before is started filling up, but i deleted more stuff and so there was 500mb of space, then an 30 mins, i have 0 bytes of space left, and i don't know why it keeps filling up with nothingness.
my drive was full so yesterday i moved 2.3Gb of files to a different drive, and today i checked and the SSD i moved them from and it only has 1.3Gb of space left. what is it filling up with and how do i stop it.
thanks of any help.
 
i think so, but should stuff like that be taking up more than 2Gb if space?
my SSD is my boot drive? its 64Gb and iv got windows 8 pro 64-bit
 
Hibernate will take up a few gig on it's own. If you don't use hibernate go to an elevated command prompt and type:

powercfg -hibernate off
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You may need to restart after.

The pagefile is usually the same size as the amount of RAM you have installed in your system.

System Protection usage varies. You can see how much it's using from within the Control Panel. I always turn System Protection off on my systems, but that's up to you.
 
so if i turn off hibernate with the powercfg -hibernate off
can i turn off pagefile and how.
or can i make it so it takes up space of a different drive instead?
 
ok i think i have change the pagefile drive, when i restart, should it free up some spcae from my C: drive (SSD)

also, what does that hibernate thing do, and what does that pagefile do? why do you need them?

also, should that pagefile and hibernate thing should it have taken up the space from the start and not started now?
really should of put all these in one post but posting as i think of questions
 
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Froger said:
ok i think i have change the pagefile drive, when i restart, should it free up some spcae from my C: drive (SSD)
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Yep

Froger said:
also, what does that hibernate thing do, and what does that pagefile do? why do you need them?
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Hibernate is only needed if you hibernate your machine, put it to sleep. It basically takes the contents of RAM, copies them to the hard drive, and shuts the machine mostly off, everything is in a low power state.

Froger said:
also, should that pagefile and hibernate thing should it have taken up the space from the start and not started now?
really should of put all these in one post but posting as i think of questions
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The size varies.

Yes you should ;). I combined your posts.
 
Hibernate does nothing on desktops it's more of a laptop thing. What you're doing is deleting your hiberfil.sys file.

Your paging file will be the same size as your installed memory.

I would also go to the start bar and run cleanup (disk cleanup) as this will delete your temp and error log files which can be pretty huge.
 
You can also delete system restore files (I use cleaner for it) I have gotta a good 10gb back from deleting all but the newest.
 
download ccleaner man. it cleans up your drive and gets rid of temporary files etc. it's given me back about 5gb at times.
 
Be careful with things like ccleaner, they can and have and will break things if you don't know what you're doing. (had to tidy up after that POS software far too many times). If you really thing your issues are down to low level registry stuff etc, my honest advice is google properly and learn how to clean up manually. Just about every automatic system cleaning application I've ever used has saved a few minutes work but created a relative shitstorm in terms of fixing the things it's broken in the process of doing so.

Also a sidenote: running an SSD above 90%~93% of full capacity seriously degrades it's lifespan the drive isn't able to manage the lifespan of the memory if you fill it to capacity.
 
SuB said:
Be careful with things like ccleaner, they can and have and will break things if you don't know what you're doing. (had to tidy up after that POS software far too many times). If you really thing your issues are down to low level registry stuff etc, my honest advice is google properly and learn how to clean up manually. Just about every automatic system cleaning application I've ever used has saved a few minutes work but created a relative shitstorm in terms of fixing the things it's broken in the process of doing so.

Also a sidenote: running an SSD above 90%~93% of full capacity seriously degrades it's lifespan the drive isn't able to manage the lifespan of the memory if you fill it to capacity.
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cclearner is a robust system, only time you may have issues is with the registry cleaner, but it asks if you would like to back up before cleaning it so you can easily restore if you have issues.
 
vorticalbox said:
cclearner is a robust system, only time you may have issues is with the registry cleaner, but it asks if you would like to back up before cleaning it so you can easily restore if you have issues.
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Programs like CCcleaner do nothing that you can't do yourself with the correct knowledge.

Another tip for you all. Instead of just using the built in uninstaller try out Revo Uninstaller.

http://www.revouninstaller.com/

Just go with the free basic version and be sure to run it in advanced mode. It will get rid of any registry settings, caches, folders etc.
 
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