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2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44
There are several ways to minimize waste.
What's happened
If your laptop or tablet has a small amount of onboard storage, you probably ran into problems updating your system. The reason is that Windows Update does not check if there is enough free space on the disk with the system, and tries to install all patches, even if the storage is already crammed to capacity.
Microsoft decided to deal with this and made us happy with a new feature that will appear in the upcoming Windows 10 update, codenamed 19H1. The system will now automatically reserve disk space for updates. The minimum value is 7 GB, which will not be available for storing your personal data. But depending on the configuration of the computer, this volume may grow.
Such a solution will add to the problems for those who have a 128 GB SDD media or even less for the system: Windows 10 will force you to clear the disk of personal files and documents so that it has somewhere to save updates.
How to moderate Windows 10 appetites
You cannot turn off redundancy, but there are several ways to reduce the space consumed by the system.
Remove unused functions
Open the Start menu, then select Settings → Applications → Apps & Features → Manage add-ons. You can reduce the amount of space reserved by the system by disabling features that you are not using.
Remove languages you are not using
Open the Start menu and go to Settings → Time & Language → Region & Language. In the "Languages" section, you will see all the language packs that are installed on your system. You can delete those that are not needed.
Perform disk cleanup
Finally, when unnecessary features are disabled and localization packages are removed, run the standard disk cleaner. Open Start → Administrative Tools → Disk Cleanup. Select the drive you want to clean up and wait while the system finds what to remove. Then select the unnecessary checkboxes and click OK. You will have some more free space.
If you have tried all the suggested methods, but Windows 10 still does not want to install updates and is indignant about the lack of disk space, try other methods.
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