SSD keeps using all space available

Question

My new SSD boot drive is 240GB and only has Win7 and Adobe Master Collection, about 90GB but keeps filling the rest of the 240 GB SSD.  Is this a SSD problem with Win7, Adobe?  I use two 3TB HDD's for capture and export, storage etc.  I only keep the OS, Adobe programs and Nero along with the motherboard monitoring SW etc on the C drive SSD.  Its a Corsair GTX 240GB.  All brand new this year.  System is PC.  Motherboard Asus Sabertooth X79 with  i7 3.4 CPU.  64 GB RAM.

Answer 1

Virtual memory is still handled by Windows as it was back in the early days of Win 3.11 and the times of very limited memory. I also use 64 GB and I have a 1 GB static pagefile. Windows suggestions are based on systems with 2 or 4 GB memory, but since it uses such an antiquated algorithm, you get bitten by the sheer lack of logic of Windows when you have much more memory.
Do make your pagefile static, minimum = maximum size, and do not allocate more than maybe 4 or 8 GB for it when you have 64 GB memory.
Where is the logic that when you have 16 GB memory, the recommended pagefile size is 24 GB, but when you have 64 GB, the recommended size is 96 GB? That makes no sense at all. It is all caused by the old algorithm of 1.5 times physical memory, which was great on 2 of 4 GB systems, but is no longer valid today with massive amounts of memory.
Regarding the hyberfil.sys file. You can't just open CMD.EXE. It needs to be opened as an administrator, otherwise it will not work. If you have modified all your accesses to system files to include hidden and system directories, you can look if it exists, but if for instance your 'appdata' directory is not showing all contents, you have to modify your access rights first, otherwise a search for hyberfil.sys will not show up. Can you see in the root directory of your C:\ drive:
bootmgr
BOOTNXT
pagefile.sys
swapfile.sys
If hyberfil.sys is included in that list, you still need to adjust your power settings and delete it. If not, you are OK.