My laptop pulls for no reason space without end?

I can't do anything anymore, the last few days my laptop just pulls up disk space for no apparent reason. If I then uninstall something again, for example, 500 MB are free again, they are gone within an hour. I have already emptied the trash, just about everything deleted on the computer, deleted browser cache, only a few programs like Illustrator I need to work on it. The laptop has 256 GB SSD.

500 MB of free space on the disk is extremely low. 5% free space is a useful minimum.

I have experienced several times that huge files (> 100 GB) were created in C: \ Windows \ Logs \ CBS \ CBS.log. Windows then tries to compress it in C. \ Windows \ Temp \, which does not work because of the lack of space. An error message is then generated in the CBS log file, which causes the file to grow again.

If this is the case with you, delete the log file and the TEMP folder. If this is not possible right away, ask again.

Have you ever had the hard disk cleaned up? Windows does not discard old Windows updates. So a "clean system files" can bring 50 GB of space.

Please buy a larger or additional hard drive.

500 MB of free memory is nothing today.

Yes, I'm in the folder, you can delete everything there? There are huge files, 100 GB

500 MB is the current state, actually it has 256 GB

Although interesting and often helpful information can be found in it, but if the texts are 100GB big, nobody can read through anyway. Windows recreates it after a certain amount of time, but not in this size. Deletion is safe. However, you can't delete the file CBS.log when it is just being written. Then:

[Windows] + [r] and enter "services.msc" there. Start as Admin. Then select "Windows Module Installer" and stop. Then you can delete the CBS.log file. Now start the service again: In the "services.msc" field, there's the "Start" button for it.

The old log files with the date in the name can be deleted immediately.

Now you still have the problem that Windows could not write important things because the disk was full. Whether Windows is stable then is unclear. Maybe then helps: Command Windows start with admin rights. There:

DISM.exe / Online / Cleanup-image / RestoreHealth
sfc / scannow

Wow, thanks for the detailed answer.

With pleasure! I have fought so many times myself with these machines that I would like to help. If that helps, I'm glad.

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