In the ever-evolving landscape of Windows 11, the recent rollout of the 24H2 update has stirred up quite a storm. Users have eagerly anticipated this update, only to confront an unwelcome surprise: a staggering 8.6GB of drive space seemingly consumed by cache files that refuse to budge. Let's...
My system drive is 63GB - yes GB... All that's on there is Windows 7 64-bit, and my applications. Data is elsewhere, cache files are elsewhere.....
At this moment there's 420KB free on the drive...
So, I started looking for what honking big bunch of garbage is eating this thing. Searching...
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