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
    2019-04-07T12:30:30+00:00

    Dave:  I scrolled down the windows temp screen and I saw other event logs with different names and different KB's next to them.  Will list them here.  Most have the same KB's next to them but they are spread out over several days

    appxerrorrep -  1KB

    Aaria.debug - 1KB

    Home - 11-300 KB'S

    MW appreadiness - 1092 KB

    MW - appx-deployment - 5188 KB

    MW appx packaging - 1092 kb

    MW settings sync deb - 1092 kb

    mw setting syc ope - 1092 kb

    MW state repository - 5188 kb

    MW store operations 9524 kb

    MW windows update - 1092 KB

    system - 8620 KB

    Then there are three WBT files that are 102400 kb each

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  2. DaveM121 936.1K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2019-04-07T12:20:50+00:00

    Hi James

    Yes, I thought it may be evtx files . . .

    Open the Settings App (gear icon on your Start Menu)

    Go to Privacy - Background Apps

    Disable all background Apps, especially the Mail and the People App

    Go into that Temp folder and delete everything

    Restart your PC and see if that file generation has stopped or if it continues . . .

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  3. DaveM121 936.1K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2019-04-07T12:00:28+00:00

    Hi James

    Thanks for the updated Pics . ..

    Open Windows File Explorer, go to C:\Windows\Temp, is that filling up with lots of evtx files?

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  4. DaveM121 936.1K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2019-04-06T12:51:38+00:00

    Hi James

    Thank you for the screenshots . . .

    So it is your Windows folder that is increasing in size, there is a 4GB increase since yesterday

    To narrow this down further and to possibly find the cause of this, in TreeSize expand out the Windows Folder, and take a screenshot, then wait a couple of hours and do the same.

    Then please post both screenshots and once I have worked out which sub-folder is increasing, we should know the cause of all this . . .

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  5. Anonymous
    2019-04-06T12:45:34+00:00

    Dave:  First of all let me thank you so much for taking the time to help me with this.  I will figure out a way to pay it forward.  So on to the screenshots.

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