After each and every update windows 10 eats up storage. These are the most profound ways to free up some storage on you windows 10. You must be telling your that you don’t need to free up space but what if these settings helps your computer to become healthy and work like a charm.
1. Remove duplicate files
One of the best and oldest technique which you might have skipped while freeing up your storage. There are numerous software which can do this for you. But I would recommend you to try Auslogics duplicate file finder.
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2. Clean your disk with disk clean up.
This will cleanup your disk and can free up to 1-3 GB of storage.
Go to File Manager -> Right click on C drive -> Select disk Cleanup.
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3. Remove Previous Windows installation files
From the release of windows 10, Microsoft is keeping the previous windows installation files in case you want to roll back to the previous rollout from the update. So you can safely remove these files if you have no problem with your current build you are running.
Go to Settings -> Select System -> Storage -> Free up space.
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4. Remove unnecessary programs from computer.
Maybe one of the common and unaffected to you but it do play lot of role when it comes to consuming the computer resource. You may have programs installed which are eating the memory, storage and CPU in the background so remove heavy programs.
Go to Settings -> Apps -> Sort by size -> Click and uninstall.
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5. Use CompactOs on windows
This is the one of the best trick to compact your windows and free up some space from it. Until and unless you have serious issue of storage, keep this settings turned off because it will reduce the windows performance. It takes time for windows to decompress files again and use them. This decompression time factor matters when you have resources in abundance. Windows automatically take cares of it it has to turned the CompactOs feature on or off.
Right Click on Start Menu -> Open cmd (admin) ->Type Compact.exe /CompactOS:always and hit enter.
To revert the changes type Compact.exe /CompactOS:never.
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6. Remove Viruses from your computer.
Using a good antivirus will do all the things to keep your computer healthy. I will prefer you MalwareBytes which will remove the viruses from you computer and free up lots of storage for you.
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7. Move files to Cloud or external storage.
You can free up your computers space by moving the big files to the cloud or external storage. Large size files are fast to move in storage spaces rather than numerous small files. So you can save space more faster if you transfer all the big files from your computer to external storage or cloud. You can buy the external hdd for your computer or Download Mega and get 50GB of cloud storage.
8. Turn off Hibernation in power settings
This is the oldest settings which is turned on till now on many computers. When your computer goes to hibernation, windows stores all of your memory data in disk storage. So that if you return to the session and you can get all your data at the place you have left it.
Right Click on Start Menu -> Open cmd (admin) ->Type powercfg /hibernate off
You can see if this settings is affected or not in power settings.
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Make sure you have hibernation box unchecked to make the settings affect and reduce your storage.
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How to free up storage on windows 10 After each and every update windows 10 eats up storage. These are the most profound ways to free up some storage on you windows 10.