Why are Windows 11 Updates Using Gigabytes of Disk Space?
After Windows updates, my backup files keep getting larger by Gigabytes. What is using up my hard disk space?
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There are Windows System log files at C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\CapabilityAccessManager
These files were growing in real time after the last few Windows Updates (April 2026).
An existing program from Dell called SmartByte was bloating the files to a great extent lately,
I uninstalled the program as I did not need it and that fixed the problem.
I also deleted this folder as it is initialized to empty at restart when missing.
In my case this freed up over 60Gb of disk space on my boot drive!
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