The RECOVERY D drive in my HP Envy x 2 is almost 90% full.

Doh.
I've only just seen that the RECOVERY D drive in my HP Envy convertable device is almost 90% full. The machine is still less than a year old, yet the D drive has acquired nearly 8 GB of stuff. I know not what that stuff is in detail, nor how to delete the data in the drive that shouldn't and needn't be there, but I've already received a 'low disk space' warning and suspect the situation will worsen to the point of criticality pretty soon.
So before I see my shiny, still relatively new, toy groan and full over, I'm wondering whether anyone might please know:
a. How I can gain visibility of what is in the drive; double-clicking on it shows only a recovery folder containing 6 files of a total size of a mere 307 MB, so it's unclear what the remaining 7.5+ GB is made up of.
b. How I can then delete what appears to be unnecessary clutter.
c. How I can prevent that clutter from accumulating in the D drive in future.
Yours hopefully
John
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You did not state which OS is installed. That always helps us to help you.
Invoke the Control Panel or if your OS is Windows 8 type system in the search charm and click on it.
Turn off the system protection on the recovery partition to stop it filling up in the future.
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