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Storage space, does this look right to you?
So according to Windows, there's 225GB of my SSD consumed by apps. This is fairly recent, a couple of days ago I noticed the drive had filled up. It used to be much emptier, but I can't remember exactly how empty or when, because the drive was so empty I never paid any attention to it.
This is what I get when I list them, there are just 82, with the biggest at 1GB. If I tot up that lot, then allow 75MB each for the remainder I get a total of 8GB, so where's the other 217GB coming from?
There are a few other apps whose size isn't specified for some reason, but I can't imagine these add up to all that:
There are two thoughts going through my mind: Optane and spyware.
Optane.
I don't really know what it's supposed to do, but I've seen someone online griping that it wore out a brand new SSD in under a year, and it made me wonder if the 200GB is worn out disk space. The computer also gets into moods from time to time when the fan runs all day long and flattens the battery in half the normal time. I've seen comments blaming this on Optane, too.
Spyware.
I have an external HDD with a lot of very confidential information on it, and it runs non-stop whenever I plug it in. It also makes the computer fan run when none of my other HDDs do either. The information on the drive relates to a long running dispute that I have, so I'm suspicious that all this might be caused by spyware, but neither Malwarebytes nor McAfee are finding anything.
Any thoughts, please?