PSA - check if your crash logs are eating up your spare C: disk space
Maria Sophia <[email protected]> Fri, 2 Jan 2026 19:37:55 -0500
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PSA - check if your crash logs are eating up your spare C: disk space For whatever reason... I had "something" eating up disk space. a. The moment I clear all files, C: filled up to zero spare bytes. b. Time and again, for weeks on end this happened to varying degrees. c. So I bit the bullet and dug into how to find the culprit. Long story short: The Windows Crash Log directory was filled with browser crash dumps. <https://www.supportyourtech.com/articles/how-to-view-crash-logs-in-windows-10-a-step-by-step-guide/> Many apps (including browsers) write dumps to: A. %LOCALAPPDATA%\CrashDumps B. %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\WER C. %PROGRAMDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\WER If desired, you can turn off crash dumps with this admin command: reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting" /v Disabled /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f -- Just one person paying it forward with clear lessons for a better PC.