Whats filling my C drive?

Penny K said:

I don't over provision .... I set 10% aside as an empty drive and don't use it.

What I meant to convey was that in order for your SSD controller to make use of that set aside 10%, it has to be unallocated space on the same physical SSD. By allocating that 10% space to a partition and drive letter, it is no longer available to the SSD controller to use.

From Seagate:

"Some SSD manufacturers provide software tools to allow for over-provisioning of drives by the user. Actually, even without special software, any user can set aside a portion of the SSD when first setting it up in the system by creating a [system, user, data, etc.] partition that does not use the drive’s full capacity. This unclaimed [unallocated] space will automatically be used by the controller as dynamic over-provisioning."

It seems the term "over-provisioning" is getting over-used ... to describe several methods of providing unused, unallocated SSD space to improve performance.

BTW, WinDirStat has not been updated since 2016-09-14. My choice would probably be TreeSize Free, V4.2.2, 14 Aug 2018

TairikuOkami said:

You have some folders, that should not be there (unless upgrading): ESD, SysReset, Windows.~WS
As it was suggested, try some cleanup, including drivers, considering, that your Windows is huge.

Code:

fsutil usn deletejournal /d /n c:
del "%LocalAppData%\Temp" /s /f /q
del "%temp%" /s /f /q
del "%WINDIR%\Installer\$PatchCache$" /s /f /q
del "%WINDIR%\Temp" /s /f /q
del "%WINDIR%\WinSxS\Backup" /s /f /q
reg add "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SideBySide\Configuration" /v "DisableResetbase" /t "REG_DWORD" /d "0" /f
Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase
cleanmgr /sageset:65535 & cleanmgr /sagerun:65535

Download DriverStore Explorer 0.9.39 to remove old drivers.

By the way, TreeSize shows the size incorrectly (size=allocated), you might try WizFile.

Did the cmd line clean up.
DISM reported no problems.
Did the DSExplorer clean up. Repository went from 6GB to 1.2GB.


WizFile kept 'Not Responding' ... Will try to keep using it as this is what you are familiar with. Deleted, reinstalled, this is what I have now:

Penny K said:

Deleted, reinstalled, this is what I have now:

It looks like there is about 62GB used by $Extend\$RmMetadata\$Txf contents.
Attachment 219459

Looking into what the $Extend and $Txf directories are, it seems to be associated with NTFS Transactional records. The same $Txf dir on my machine is only 20MB. You might want to look at the fsutil tool, described here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...sutil-resource

especially at a command string that is supposed to "specify that the default Transactional Resource Manager will clean the transactional metadata on the next mount on drive C:"

Attachment 219462

But Please be sure you have full backups before trying this tool, or even better wait until some of the smarter minds here have had a chance to correct me before going forward!

You might also want to look at the status of TRIM support on your system via this tutorial:

Enable or Disable TRIM Support for Solid State Drives in Windows 10

mta3006 said:

It looks like there is about 62GB used by $Extend\$RmMetadata\$Txf contents. better wait until some of the smarter minds here have had a chance to correct me before going forward!
You might also want to look at the status of TRIM support on your system via this tutorial:

63.1 GB Allocated ... 43.4% used.
MS forum suggested a clean install.
Not sure if repair or reinstall will be better.

Trim is on, I have set weekly, but W10 keeps going 9, 10, 14 days sometimes before doing it.
It gets done, but its a bit wonky.


I need to fix the AUDIODG.EXE Stopped working...up to 12x a day.
Faulting application name: AUDIODG.EXE, version: 10.0.17763.134, time stamp: 0x1cb1ad5b
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000Exception code: 0xc0000005Fault offset: 0x0000000000000000
Faulting process id: 0x19c8
Faulting application start time: 0x01d4a24dd4d83fdc
Faulting application path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\AUDIODG.EXE
Faulting module path: unknown
Report Id: 7d343392-098a-4819-a2d0-f5a8e6d11052
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

I think this $RmMetadata is all error reports.

As I write this, this thread is up to 44 posts.

Avoiding overprovisioning in the way you are doesn’t make sense to me.
Post #11: “AUDIODG.EXE has never run properly. Time to fix it, 13GB of error reports is FU.”
--- There is plenty of information on reliable websites about dealing with AUDIODG.EXE
--- If you look them up to see which ones could apply in your case, ask us first so we are on the same page.
Post #44: “I need to fix the AUDIODG.EXE Stopped working...up to 12x a day.”
Post #40: 46% of 70 GB reserved space used by error reporting .... PROBLEM!
--- I haven’t investigated that issue yet.

Time to focus on the AUDIODG.EXE either in this thread or create a new thread just for that issue.
--- Same for 46% of 70 GB reserved space used by error reporting afterward.

Personally, I believe you’d be better off backing up your data and consider one of these 2 procedures.

Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade
Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade | Tutorials

Clean Install Windows 10
Clean Install Windows 10 | Tutorials

Someone else might have a better recommendation and that would be ok with me.
--- It’s just that we need to get on track to solve what your computer needs.

MeAndMyComputer said:

As I write this, this thread is up to 44 posts.

Avoiding overprovisioning in the way you are doesn’t make sense to me.
Post #11: “AUDIODG.EXE has never run properly. Time to fix it, 13GB of error reports is FU.”
--- There is plenty of information on reliable websites about dealing with AUDIODG.EXE
--- If you look them up to see which ones could apply in your case, ask us first so we are on the same page.
Post #44: “I need to fix the AUDIODG.EXE Stopped working...up to 12x a day.”
Post #40: 46% of 70 GB reserved space used by error reporting .... PROBLEM!
--- I haven’t investigated that issue yet.

Time to focus on the AUDIODG.EXE either in this thread or create a new thread just for that issue.
--- Same for 46% of 70 GB reserved space used by error reporting afterward.

Personally, I believe you’d be better off backing up your data and consider one of these 2 procedures.

Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade
Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade | Tutorials

Clean Install Windows 10
Clean Install Windows 10 | Tutorials

Someone else might have a better recommendation and that would be ok with me.
--- It’s just that we need to get on track to solve what your computer needs.

AUDIODG.EXE is all over the internet, and very few real answers. Trial and error in most cases for a fix.
I suspect its 'Stopped Working' status is when the PC sleeps or most probably VLC/Games/Youtube may be minimized to the taskbar ... 'Stopped Working'.
I'm tending towards a clean install if I cant properly view/audit whats in the folder, I have a speciousions, from viewing the WizFile contents, its all error reports/dumps. Many, many duplicates.

Lets have 1 or 2 analysis of the contents of the $Extend folder and go from there.

Tomorrow is another day.

TairikuOkami said:

It is merely a handler service for your sound card, try upgrading your sound-card driver, chipset, etc.
Driver Easy is good in detecting drivers, then you can download them from manufacturer's webpage.

Bios is up to date.
Every driver is up to date.
All firmware is up to date.
Some drivers are beyond the MSI's releases as they are being handled by Windows Update.

DriverEasy gave me 72 updates .... WTF?!
Even my Acer Switch 10 that is turned off needs updates, no lan no wifi connected and DriverEasy snooped through my storage drive to find the backup and drivers I DL'd for it back in March 2018.
Did DriverEasy snoop through my bank statements as well?
I dont like this at all.

“DriverEasy gave me 72 updates .... WTF?!”
--- I don’t recall that being typical but it isn’t unusual most likely with the condition your laptop is in.

“Even my Acer Switch 10 that is turned off needs updates, no lan no wifi connected and DriverEasy snooped through my storage drive to find the backup and drivers I DL'd for it back in March 2018.”
--- It isn’t snooping, it’s finding what’s on your computer and recommending what they propose you need.

“Did DriverEasy snoop through my bank statements as well?”
--- No.

“I dont like this at all.”
Even more reason to consider
Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade
Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade | Tutorials

Clean Install Windows 10
Clean Install Windows 10 | Tutorials

Thanks for the help.
Time wise it went over the limit of a clean install.
Rather than continuing with this, I did a clean install.