I actually just found out what caused the windows.old folder to be appearing out of nowhere and no update was actually being done.
I had virus. It was pretty bad because I couldn't even install AVG or Kaspersky (something about admin blocked it for my protection), even though I AM the admin.
I...
I have been using my current windows installation for a couple months now and because I installed it directly (didn't upgrade from a previous windows), I never had a windows.old folder til' now.
It finished doing whatever it was doing earlier and like @Neemobeer suggested, I restarted. But my...
Update: No HDD activity on both drives now. Sitting idle for the past half hour.
Windows says nothing. Version is the same as above, still.
2nd HDD free space is now 73GB+. Ceased going down in space.
Apparently, a windows.old folder was created last night at around 11pm (I had no idea).
I noticed I have increased HDD activity, and I was wondering why's that. Then windows said my boot disk space is running low, so I went to 'My Computer' and noticed a large chunk of my second HDD space is...