Windows 10 Windows Update is Filling Up My Hard Drive

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My computer has only a 128GB hard drive in it. As such, I have to be careful with my space, especially since I use rather large programs like Visual Studio and SQL Server Management Studio.

Last week, Windows Update and Update Orchestrator Service started using a large percentage of my CPU and disk. I didn't think much of it at the time, but the I noticed my C drive filling up. I now have only around 600MB of free space on my computer, and it goes down at about 1MB per second.

The culprit is the folder C:\ProgramData\USOShared\Logs. In this folder, there is approximately 16GB of .etl files which are only about 88KB each. The catch is that there are literally 190,000 of these file in the directory. There are literally more being added every second. I don't know what to do.

I tried to find something about this issue, but wasn't able to find anything at all. All I found was the the USOShared folder was part of Windows Update, and should not be touched. But I need my hard drive space back.

Can anyone help?

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