SSD free space disappearing?

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Cheezor722

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I just installed a new Intel X25-V SSD with a fresh Windows 7 64 bit install on Friday. After installing Windows and all the applications I needed, I was left with ~18GB left on the drive. However, I looked at the amount of free space available today, and it's down to only 7GB!

The loss in space seems to be related to the "User" folder on the drive. When i mouse over it, it shows the size of the folder to be 800MB. But, when I click the Properties of the folder, it shows its size to be 11GB.

I have no idea what the problem is here? Does this have something to do with TRIM? is TRIM off? I just installed the Intel SSD optimizer but it didn't seem to do much. I'm really at a loss, does anyone know what's going on?
 
Cheezor722 said:
Ok I went through the article and disabled hibernation and page filing. I looked at the System restore and it said it was only taking up 150MB at the moment so i left it on. I've now gone from 8GB ->11.5GB. However, the the problem in the original post still persists. Any suggestions?
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I'd re-enable the page file unless you're really strapped for space... Tho you'll find a lot of back and forth discussion on the subject (and tons of testimonials from people who run w/o it just fine). Most of the space you reclaimed was probably taken up by the hiberfil.sys file anyway which is usually as large as the amount of RAM you've got (since when you hibernate the system stores the contents of RAM to said file).

System Restore could eventually gobble up a sizable chunk but you've established that wasn't it either. Short of the volume shadow copy service flipping out and keeping way more revisions of files than it should, I think some program you've installed is keeping a sizeable chunk of data in your User folder... So go thru the list of the apps you've installed and figure it out. WindDirStat is a handy util and might help w/that.
 
Turn ON hidden folders and check the folder C:\ProgramData.

Sometimes enormous install files are kept in there after a bad install or from 3rd party intall programs.
 
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