Windows 11 computer SSD filling up

submitted by Iconian from self.technology

I just got a brand new computer with Windows 11 from Amazon a few weeks ago. Until one week ago I had only used it for one hour, and at that point I noted that its 1 terabyte drive had about 50 GB used. Since then though I've probably used it 20 or 30 hours, and I noted two days ago that it has about 100 GB used.

I definitely didn't put 50 GB of data on it--maybe 5 or 10, but not 50. Any idea why it would do this? My machines with Windows 10 don't inexplicably fill up.

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[–]IkeConn 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Clear your browser cache.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

disable system restore point, or atleast cap it so i can only store a certain amount of snapshots and only use a certain % of disk space.

[–]zyxzevn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Win 11 logs all your data and sends it to Microsoft. Maybe that is filling up your SSD.

[–]Brewdabier 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I to got an amazon laptop and the description said windows 10, it had 11. I removed the SSD and installed a 1 TB SSD with windows 10, no problems.

[–]Iconian[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm actually on the threshold of installing Linux on it--or rather, taking out its SSD and putting a new one in with Linux. Hopefully that will resolve the problem.

Thank you for your answers as well :)

[–]Brewdabier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

From all I've read and seen windows 11 is full of bloteware and slow, my Amazon laptop took 45 seconds to boot but windows 10 takes 20 seconds. I have a bootable usb with Linux and just need to go into bios so I can install Linux on the dell latitude 7490 but it's doing good so far.

[–]PsychoTranyRedditMod 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Windows 11

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[–]neolib 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I have two versions: 1 - updates (to install later), 2 - automatic system snapshots.