There have been an increasing number of computers lately with hard drives mysteriously filling up over just a few days or even hours, and it is most often due to a glitch in some windows 10 1903 builds that causes the os to generate tens of thousands of .evtx files in C:\\Windows\\temp for reasons currently unknown – it seems to be connected to the Windows Store though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can quickly delete these by opening cmd and running<\/p>\n\n\n\n
del \/s C:\\windows\\temp\\*evtx*
del \/s C:\\windows\\temp\\*appx*<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If the hard drive truly does not have a single byte of space left, you probably can’t log in normally. Use a Backstage session since it gets you straight into an elevated cmd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After clearing these, the computer must be updated to Windows 10 1909 or higher <\/strong>to prevent the problem from reoccurring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There have been an increasing number of computers lately with hard drives mysteriously filling up over just a few days or even hours, and it is most often due to a glitch in some windows 10 1903 builds that causes the os to generate tens of thousands of .evtx files in C:\\Windows\\temp for reasons currently…<\/p>\n