Who ate space on drive C?

Question

Hard disks

On August 31, 2014, I installed Windows 8.1 x64 on my laptop in EFI mode.
Initially, the size of the partition allocated for it was 40 gigabytes, but it, along with the software, quickly ate them up and using the minitool partition wizard to expand the space on C to 50 GB. In principle, everything worked fine, however, as the updates were installed, the free space on the C drive slowly decreased and now there are about 2.5 GB left, I ran the update cleanup several times using the script

net stop wuauserv
cd /d %windir%
rd /s SoftwareDistribution
Dism.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase
pause
net start wuauserv
pause

And also with the help of CCleaner, and if earlier it effectively helped and the space was restored, now on the C drive it is not possible to clear more than 4 gigabytes and they are again relatively quickly clogged up to two. Software that could take up space doesn’t cost me much, and the set of programs hasn’t changed much either.
Here is a report on which files and folders take up how much space:
Folders:
MSOCache - 825 MB (865,533,952 bytes)
Program Files - 1.77 GB (1,910,231,040 bytes)
Program Files (x86) - 1.65 GB (1 776,939,391 bytes)
ProgramData - 1.00 GB (1,084,727,296 bytes)
totalcmd - 12.9 MB (13,570,048 bytes)
Users - 1.60 GB (1,724,645,376 bytes)
Windows - 38.9 GB ( 41,789,014,016 bytes)
hiberfil.sys - 4.47 GB (4,806,889,472 bytes)
The usual way for me to shutdown is to hibernate, the swap file is disabled, the recycle bin is also disabled. Once a month I check the system with Dr. Web CureIt and the built-in Windows Defender, there are no viruses and never were.
Actually, as far as I understand the matter in Windows updates, and what should I do next, expand the C drive by another 10 gigabytes, or are there more acceptable solutions?
In general, how important are updates on a personal laptop, I used to sit on 7 without updating it at all and did not know any problems with viruses (it is enough to follow safety precautions) or with hard disk space.

Answer 1

Added:
I found a solution, it turned out that I installed and removed a lot of software through the Windows Installer (plus updates, the cache of which was already deleted via DISM), here is the cache of already unused files and took 10GB, I
found the utility and with its help I cleaned everything appnee.com/ wicleanup

Answer 2

After installing updates in the Windows folder, the winsxs folder (and possibly some others) is "bloated".
Ways to clean it are not always safe, so my choice is to expand the disk, especially with such volumes.

Answer 3

Where does hard drive space go? ?
Have you deleted restore points?

Answer 4

www.outsidethebox.ms/15272

Answer 5

FreeManOfPeace : WIndows in the latest versions, among other things, in winsxs contains distributions for all available features, even disabled ones (feature on demand). in Windows 8+, they can be safely removed from the system - when you try to install a feature with missing files, it will be downloaded from windows update (or another place specified in the group policy)
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ hh8248...
Maybe in the end it's worth looking there too
However, initially, I suggest digging in the direction of "which folder inside windows weighs the most" and what can be done with it.

Answer 6

Fewer updates need to be installed :)))