Temporary files increasing every day by the gigabyte

Anonymous
2019-04-05T12:22:36+00:00

Yesterday I went to a computer repair person because I was getting messages that I was out of storage.  He had never heard of this problem but he ran a piece of software and said I would be good for a long time.  Well since yesterday another 6 gigs of temporary files have appeared in my storage.  I read some other articles first in this forum and tried the troubleshooter method and that didn't do anything.  It said it could not find anything wrong.  I don't want to bring it back to the computer repair person because he was just as perplexed as I am right now.

James

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Files, folders, and storage

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-04-07T12:11:15+00:00

    It sort of looks like it.  Here is a screenshot.  I'm sure it goes much farther down

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-04-07T11:52:48+00:00

    Dave:  The first three screenshots are from yesterday morning.   Then the rest are from this morning

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-04-05T14:00:00+00:00

    I took your advice.  Shown below is a screenshot of what it says after running the program

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  4. DaveM121 935.7K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2019-04-05T12:49:40+00:00

    Hi James

    Windows Explorer is useless when it comes to working out where your hard drive space is being used . . .

    Click the link below to download a small free utility called Treesize. Using that tool, you can monitor to see where this space is being used up and its exact location

    https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/

    Once you have worked out where this space is being used, please let me know so I can advise on what the underlying problem may be. . .

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  5. Anonymous
    2019-04-05T12:30:45+00:00

    Hi James,

    I'm Stefano an Independent Advisor, here to help you.

    First of all, I suggest you to perform a disk clean-up:

    1. Open "File Explorer"
    2. Click on "This PC"
    3. Right click on "C:"
    4. Click on "Proprieties"
    5. Click on "Clean-up disk"
    6. Click on "Clean up system files"
    7. Select every option in the list, but not "Download"
    8. Click on "OK"

    Then I suggest you to follow this procedure:

    1. Type "cmd" in windows search bar
    2. Right click on "Command Prompt"
    3. Select "Run as Administrator"
    4. Type "sfc /scannow" without quote and press ENTER

    Please let me know if there are some files corrupted or damaged that can't be repaired.

    Once ended try performing a clean boot:

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/929135...

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