Important Update:
I think I've found the culprit: Jetico BCWipe. I've never used this program(I bought the laptop from gumtree & have left most of the programs it came with because they seemed useful) but there's a folder in the C drive which is a hidden and called: ῀BCWipe Del" ...I think it has the 'Del' part....
So here's what happened:
1. This folder had a file that was 69.4GB...
2. Everytime something was being deleted from browser cache, temp folders, Recyle Bin etc it was going to this folder....
3. When Recyle bin is emptied it was going to this folder...
4. I managed to delete this 69.4GB file BUT....
5. All the other mini files ( 20KBs<) & there were thousands upon thousands (>10K+) which were not more than 50MB could also be deleted via simple delete or shift+delete BUT...two things....first these mini files kept on increasing and more were flooding into this folder and I was playing cat and mouse trying to delete them to no avail (& at the same time my C drive is decreasing in available space as these files pile up!).
6. I tried to delete BCWipe.....it wouldn't let me...an error
7. Used RevoUninstaller to remove this program and that folder "BCWipe..." dissapeared! Horroa!
I looked at my AVAST log and found the following 4 virus/trojans deleted from last scan during bootup (I recall two were trojans at least and were deleted by Avast)L
1. Win32-Delf-MBA [Trj]
2. Win32LDelf-MBA [Trj]
3. PUP Win32-gen [PUP]
4. PUPL Win32LPUP-gen[PUP]
So all in all people a happy ending
I now have Malwarebytes installed, scheduled weekly scans, I don't have this nasty folder filling my C drive up with useless files and I'm happy
Moral of the story, if you buy a laptop from ebay/gumtree make sure you do a full scan or remove programs you don't need!
Any thoughts, insights people?
Thank you once again for your assistance, greatly appreciate your time.