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what's it called, oh yes, memory
It's disk[sic] storage, not memory. I think 100GB for the OS and your applications is just what modern machines seem to want, and your long term fix is a new, bigger, C: drive.
There are a couple of things which will win you a little space at the expense of performance/convenience, such as disabling Hibernation and reducing the size of the paging file
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As ^, 100GB does just tend to vanish with OS and a few apps now.
If you don't want to spend the time combing through files then spend ~£40 on a 512GB NVMe, do a fresh install of the OS and apps and then copy over any data you need that isn't in the cloud.
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Run a disk space analyser like WinDirStat or TreeSize (I think that's the name). They will tell you exactly where all the drive space has been used up. You can drill into the highest usage folders and see what's taking all the space.
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I have a question about, what's it called, oh yes, memory. I have 110 GB on my C drive and I am down to only 10 free. I don't know where it goes. I have removed everything I can to an external hard drive, done disc cleanups but it has got lower and lower over the weeks and months. I don't have any malware, as far as I can tell. Googling hasn't helped - any thoughts, anyone?