As someone who admins Windows systems for a living as part of my job, two options come to mind: Windows update files, or sync’d content from a file share.
Network file shares that are mapped to a drive letter, and set to be “always available” or “available offline” end up in a hidden subfolder of the windows directory.
Windows updates are stored there too.
There’s also a small matter regarding log files. My best recommendation is to use something like windirstat or wiztree running as an administrator (so it can “see” all the files), which should tell you what directory or subfolder or file is taking up all that space.
My dang /windows directory is like 160 GB and as far as I can tell there’s nothing abnormal going on! It’s infuriating. It’s just growing slowly.
Probably left over bits from various windows updates
Probably should run disk cleanup
Time to reformat :)
As someone who admins Windows systems for a living as part of my job, two options come to mind: Windows update files, or sync’d content from a file share.
Network file shares that are mapped to a drive letter, and set to be “always available” or “available offline” end up in a hidden subfolder of the windows directory.
Windows updates are stored there too.
There’s also a small matter regarding log files. My best recommendation is to use something like windirstat or wiztree running as an administrator (so it can “see” all the files), which should tell you what directory or subfolder or file is taking up all that space.
Good luck