SSD Full on very new machine

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12 hours ago, Deekay57 said: 
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		Will do that - some great help here <span class="ipsEmoji">?</span></p>
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14 hours ago, Andavari said: 
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		Plain and simple 16GB of free available space just isn't enough!
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		That alone will free many GBs if it's never been cleared out - it's very annoying that it can't be completely disabled from filling up. The built in Windows Disk Cleanup will have to be ran after every Windows updates patch Tuesday to regain space from there.
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		A 120GB-128GB SSD doesn't really cut it anymore, definitely not with Windows 10, it's too small and doesn't give anywhere near enough space. At least a 240GB-256GB SSD boot drive should be the minimum sized used nowadays. I suppose in a few years the minimum recommendation will bloat into being at least 480GB-512GB.
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Weirdly I switched the machine on this morning after being shutdown since Saturday and straightaway there’s only 12gb free???

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There's probably a resident program (or maybe a Windows Update since they pre-load some of them) that's doing that which may not necessarily be considered "junk" for programs like CCleaner to delete.

Since you're so low on space you may need to run some program that monitors everything being saved onto the system - sorry I don't have any recommendations for such a program.

Other than that try storing any "space hog" media files like music and videos on the 1TB hard disk since those generally never need to be on fast access storage like an SSD.

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3 hours ago, Andavari said: 
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		There's probably a resident program <em>(or maybe a Windows Update since they pre-load some of them)</em> that's doing that which may not necessarily be considered "junk" for programs like CCleaner to delete.
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		Since you're so low on space you may need to run some program that monitors everything being saved onto the system - sorry I don't have any recommendations for such a program.
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		Other than that try storing any "space hog" media files like music and videos on the 1TB hard disk since those generally never need to be on fast access storage like an SSD.
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Thanks Andavari - since doing the things advised on this forum I now have 32 gb free - there 30gb hidden in apps somewhere as the app file reports 32gb size but manually adding up all the individual apps doesnt come to much more than 1gb