Windows 256GB partition almost full?!?

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My C drive is a 256GB SSD and it is showing almost full which is uncanny for only having Windows and a couple apps. I had thought I might have accidentally extracted a couple MKV movie files to it but a search found nothing. My user profile directory is 80GB but looking inside I can't find any large files. Is there a tool to do this?

On a side note, a few months ago I installed Ubuntu to dual boot and might have used my C drive? How can I confirm this and remove it short of wiping the drive which is a last resort?

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People talk about the pagefile but unless he's got lots of ram it won't be that big. Also if you do have a lot of ram (my desktop has 16gigs) you can go in and make your pagefile smaller, you'll just use more ram etc.

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Hello,

If you are not using hibernation on your computer, turning that feature off will save you the disk space used by a HIBERFIL.SYS file, which typically the same size as your RAM. To do so, open an elevated Command Prompt (filename: CMD.EXE) and issue a "POWER.CFG /H OFF" command.

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Yes with 24GB RAM turn off hibernation and manually set your pagefile to 4GB. This should save you 44GB or so.

Yeah, there's no real reason to keep a big pagefile if you have so much ram. I haven't gotten the chance to check mine, I have 16GB of ram, but a 4Gb file sounds good, you'll just keep more things in ram than before.

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