Series 9 - Loss of Disk Space Randomly?

Hello everyone,

this is happening more than rarely and it's getting quite annoying. Last night, the laptop was sitting at 93 GB free space on its only drive, C and when I checked it this morning it has 89GB. Before you ask, no I had nothing running that would download anything 4GB big and windows update was NOT running. I've run malware and virus scans (virus using windows defender, malware using malware bytes) and nothing has shown up.

Also noteworthy, why does my fan begin running when I am AFK for ~5 minutes, and then stops when I return to using the laptop? There are no background processes running and the fan is otherwise well behaved, (quite during easy tasks and runs while computing something etc)

Any Ideas? Thanks!

 

Can you remind us which model and whether you have HDD or SSD and the capacity.

There are background processes such as defragging or indexing that are usually set to run when the computer is not in active use.

John

 

It's P900-X4C A02, 215 GB SSD. All hards are defragged and everything seems fine. Could it be OED software? I've uninstalled most of the bloatware

 

Do you have Windows System Restore enabled? And if so how much does it currently use of the max amount allocated? Use the Configure screen to check it.

 

SSDs shouldn't be defragged like HDDs. TRIM should be running in the background to do garbage management and wear levelling. I don't know, however, whether that causes fluctuations in free disk space.

John