How To Clean Your C Drive After Installing An Hhd For Storage

Whether yous're upgrading to the Windows ten Insider Preview or the official build of the operating system, you'll notice a significant hit on hard drive space—up to 20 GB taken away from y'all. For those with older or fifty-fifty solid-land hard drives (SSDs), this can be a substantial hit.

Luckily, there'south a super easy way to reclaim some, or possibly all, of this space dorsum, and it's done with Windows' built-in Disk Cleanup utility.

To free up hard drive infinite, search for Disk Utility (or access information technology through the "Windows Administrative Tools" folder in the Start carte du jour). From there, hit the pick for "Clean up system files" and let Disk Cleanup relaunch.

How to Reclaim Up to 20 GB of Hard Drive Space After Installing Windows 10

Now you'll encounter options in the "Files to delete" list for "Previous Windows installation(s)" and "Temporary Windows installation files."

On my Windows 10 system, these 2 entries equaled 17 GB of space! Combine that with my very chaotic Recycle Bin, and I've now recovered over 21 GB of precious storage.

Just note that by clearing these two entries, you will no longer be able to roll back to your previous version of Windows. So brand sure it's something you want to do before actually doing information technology.

Manifestly, your mileage will vary with the amount of space you lot can clear, but in the end, you'll have more than room for games, apps, videos, pictures... whatever have yous.

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