Windows Folder taking All Disk Space?

Hello SharePoint Fam,
I got alert today in CA saying that my APP Server was running low on disk space C drive. C Drive is 80GB and Windows folder is taking almost 30GB of that data. C drive only has 10GB of space left. I know alot of important system files are
in Windows folder, is there anything in this folder I could look into removing? System Volume Info is 40GB but not sure exactly if i can modify that at all. Volume Shadow Copy is not enabled at all....Thanks n advance

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Alf Megson wrote:
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