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The Mysterious Mr. Serious
I noticed my C drive that my OS is installed on is running very low on space and I have found the cause of it. There is a hidden system folder named SystemRestore that is holding assets for many things that should not be there as I have no actual restore points or backups made. On top of that, it is for the game Killer Instinct which I had uninstalled and deleted about 5 years ago now. I have actually reinstalled Windows 10 a couple of times since then and the file is still there. There is no drive partitions or anything of the sort. I have used an app called TreeSize to view the files and tried taking ownership manually and using a registry editor app and it will not allow me to delete it no matter who I give permissions to, whether I change the files from read only to full control by every user. No matter if I go into safe mode and run all of the same procedures the files will start to populate in the delete process then immediately skips to the end and deletes absolutely none of the files. I cannot delete even a .txt file from within this folder. The amount of work being put in to try deleting these SystemRestore(completely unnecessary to me) files is ridiculous and I don't care if it causes issues in the future; I should be able to delete anything that is not 100% crucial to running Windows if I change the permissions and do so from safe mode. There are many people I see having the same issue with different games and it always comes back to the games being downloaded from the Microsoft Store. I do not know the cause of this or why in the world a game asset file that is 50GB is considered important enough to keep in a backup, let alone when there shouldn't be a backup AND the game is deleted, but this problem needs to be addressed. At this point I have worked on this for a couple of hours and got to the point where I am now completely erasing the OS and drive and reinstalling Windows from scratch.
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