SSD 256K Gb IS FULL in only 5months with no Movies no Songs no files

[PADRAIGOHARA]

This is a toy  simple.......

Hard drive is  full

SSD 256K Gb IS FULL in only 5months with no Movies no Songs no Large files even deleted all OneDRive

WINDOWS 10 is taking up 90% of the Hard Drive

whats up

[WAWood · Accepted solution]

@PADRAIGOHARA 

I have several PCs running on 120GB SSDs, and none of them are even HALF full, after running for years!!

Windows Update is the likely culprit, along with cache files that are downloaded every time you browse a website.

Here are some things you can do to recover some of the disk space:
http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3012-disk-cleanup-open-use-windows-10-a.html
http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-clean-up-winsxs-folder-in-windows-10/

Also, the community Win10 Forums has the following suggestions:
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/83441-free-up-drive-space-windows-10-a.html

Finally, there is a freeware app known as Wise Disk Cleaner. I use it every day to get rid of junk files: https://www.wisecleaner.com/wise-disk-cleaner.html

[PADRAIGOHARA]

Hi I did download install the free disk cleaner

the result only 2GB free

thanks for that

wish i could get that half none of the other tips showed any thing to remove 

now I have 7.96Gb  of 256Gb

the WinXSX still has 7gb

but it did not get reduced at all.

the wind update was only 110mb  b4 cleaning

all apps I could move to EXTERNAL DRIVE HAD BEEN MOVED B4 I put this post up.  

[WAWood]

@PADRAIGOHARA 

Well, those should have removed a lot more stuff. I regularly run Win10 on 120GB SSDs and always have 60GB or more of free space using those apps.

Try the following:

1) Open up a command window with admin rights

2) Paste this there and run it:

Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase

This will clean out the WinSxS folder -- which should have happened before; I don't know why.

[PADRAIGOHARA]

:\WINDOWS\system32>Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 10.0.19041.844

Image Version: 10.0.19043.1052

[==========================100.0%==========================]
The operation completed successfully.

did not improve much maybe 1GB more  removed

i ran cleanmgr  and it freed up 4GB from Windows UPdate Cleanup

[PADRAIGOHARA]

NOW OVER 120GB Free  

problem  was   bunch of SQL Server TMp  files   still there from

b4 I had removed it