How to Free Up Disk Space and Improve Performance

^{Go to Settings > System > Storage to see what’s using the most space.}

^{Search “Disk Cleanup”, select your drive, choose items to delete, and click OK.}

^{Right-click the Recycle Bin on your desktop and choose Empty Recycle Bin.}

^{Go to settings > System > Storage > Temporary files, select items and click Remove files.}

^{Go to Settings > Apps > Installed apps, Uninstall apps you don’t use.}

^{Check your Downloads, Documents, Videos and delete or move large files you no longer need.}

^{Go to Settings > System > Storage > Storage Sense. Turn it on and click Run Storage Sense now.}

^{In Disk Cleanup, go to the more Options tab and click Clean up under both sections to remove old restore points and unused programs.}

^{Move large folders to an external drive or cloud storage (OneDrive, Google Drive, etc.) or change their location.}

^{Right-click the OneDrive icon > Settings > Settings tab. Use “Free up space” or enable Files On-Demand.}

^{In Disk Cleanup, select “Windows Update Cleanup”. This can free several GB.}

^{In your browser settings, clear cache, cookies and download history regularly.}

^{Opens an elevated Command Prompt and type: powercfg -h off}
^{This can free up several GB of space.}

^{Run from an elevated Command prompt: compact.exe / compactos:always}
^{(Reboot required)}