Not mine, although I have had similar issues. Found here

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    powercfg.exe /hibernate off

    First step I take when faced with a new Windows installation.

    And the 310GB sysfiles… I take it Windows is on a very large partition? Create a small, 120GB or so, partition on this disk. You’ll never use that much space. Windows expands if it is installed on a large partition with all sorts of cache.

    Hate on Windows all you want, the path its headed it deserves it. Yet any OS will behave badly if it’s configured badly.

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      There’s nothing the sysadmin should have to worry about here. This is entirely on Windows. No other system in existence just fills up the space of the drive it’s on like this. This isn’t configured poorly. It’s just a bad OS.

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        My Windows 10 installation is on a 120GB partition on a 256GB NVMe SSD with hibernate off and I don’t have these issues. I have applied these changes since the first laptop I bought, 2012 Windows 7.

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          Sure, but this doesn’t change the fact that it’s the fault of the OS and that the user shouldn’t have to take these steps. I totally believe Windows does this, but not that it has any legitimate reason to happen.

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            The reason Windows works like this is because there are loads of people who try to run Windows 10 on super old weak Intel Celerons so they try all kinds of caching steps to make it manageable.

            It would be better if Microsoft made some sort of lite edition, or immediately give you the option to turn this stuff off when configuring it. Problem is, Windows is used by a lot of people and most people have no clue how to configure an OS.

            You have two options: either spend a lot on a computer that can run the OS it comes with without issue (Apple), or try your luck with a GNU/Linux distro, for which you might need to develop some knowledge about what you’re doing.

            Or put up with Windows’s shit.

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          30 days ago

          You shouldn’t have to do this to avoid the massive bloat and new users shouldn’t be expected to have to learn how to “fix” their brand-new operating system.

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      I use hibernate because sleep stopped fucking working. I disabled every sleep wake I could find and it sort of worked until an update and now sleep just shuts my monitor off for a second. It doesn’t even log out. That’s windows 10. I just got a laptop with 11 and similar issues. It basically locks the screen but doesn’t sleep. If it does sleep, it’ll wake up for no reason at night.

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    That’s how I got a netbook. It had 32GB storagestorage, and windows+office took 27 of that. And then it wanted to download an 8GB update file. And yes, we have cleaned up anything we could wipe off the system.

    I installed Linux, with office and development tools an a few extras, and was still below 5GB.

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    30 days ago

    Seems like an issue with downloaded updates, they keep getting errors and then repeat downloading without removing the previous attempt.

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    I’ve had issues with windows failing to delete temp files if the c drive is 3tb or bigger, so they accumulate until you see that the folder is 500gb big and go to manually clear it.

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    In fairness hibernation files need to be massive because they need to be able to store the full running state of RAM which on a reasonable computer comes out to 10s of gigs. If you want to hibernate Linux the swap partition will look similar.

    Also no idea why virtual memory is counted there that’s just a memory addressing method.

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        Its a bug. Win11 recently did not cleanup temp nor updates files when the job ran to clean them up. A lot of people had 10’s of gb of data that could be cleared, but wasnt

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        That’s just normal, they gotta store your data and the downloaded updates somewhere…

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            Of course, that’s what I’m saying. They gotta backup all that data they’re collecting while they’re tracking you. And windows after downloading an update and applying it, they don’t delete it. They keep it, to share it with other windows machines, cause it’s cheaper for MS to do peer to peer between windows computers instead of downloading it directly from them.

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      From experience I’m going to say it’s something producing files in the system temp folder, and not cleaning them up. I’ve seen this often with 3rd party software, Adobe and sage are often culprits. Win7 did have an issue at one point that would also do it .

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    Oohh, compares nicely to the 1.something GB of my Linux install that, you know, actually works, doesn’t spy on me, and was free as in beer and liberty.

    Switch to Linux.

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    A windows install won’t fit on a base model Mac mini? lol

    This must be wrong…

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      It will, it’s a corrupt os. You can put it on a 50gb drive if you want. Probably lower, had 17gb images I would deploy for media screens, but it’s not worth bothering with.

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      The curious donut that I am, I found similar issues listed. Apparently the answer is running chkdsk /r, as it’s simply a misrepresentation / bug instead of actual bloat.

      You could try that and let us know if that worked for you.

      Disclosure: chkdsk /r is a command that attempts to repair hard drives sectors.

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    At first it seemed like you were doxxing yourself but now I think you got a god complex