Lately, my Windows 10 hard drive is being used up for no reason whatsoever - I'm pretty sure it was Windows Update that's causing it. What should I do?

DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.dbzer0.com · edit-2 2 days ago

Lately, my Windows 10 hard drive is being used up for no reason whatsoever - I'm pretty sure it was Windows Update that's causing it. What should I do?

LNRDrone@sopuli.xyz · 2 days ago

Windows is stupid AF when it comes to multiple drives and it tends to create swap on all of them.

I think Advanced settings -> performance should get you on the tab with swap settings.

DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 days ago

I have WIndows 10 - where is that on the settings?

LNRDrone@sopuli.xyz · 2 days ago

Control panel -> View advanced system system settings -> Performance -> Settings -> Advanced -> Virtual memory -> Change

Make sure the “Automatically manage…” is nit selected and you should be able to set the paging file for each drive separately. System managed for the main OS drive (usually C:) and any other SSDs you run apps from is fine. Old hardrives and other drives that are just for storage should have “None”, otherwise that drive may be used for paging file. Also make sure the main drive always has a good bit of free space (20GB+ should be more than enough), so it should be prioritized for the paging file.