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How to free up disk space after upgrading to Windows 10

On July 28, Microsoft began to distribute the installation files of Windows 10 on the computers of users who have booked an upgrade to a new operating system. The next day, users are given the option to install Windows 10 on computers via “Windows update”. After the procedure, many noticed that the system partition has lost several tens of gigabytes of free space. How to free up space in the system after you install Windows 10, later in our tutorial.

The dis appearance of gigabytes is easily explained: during the OS upgrade process preserves the system files of the operating system, which committed the upgrade, if necessary, can on her back. For Mac users, which was originally allocated under the partition with Windows is not too much space, it can turn into a real problem.

If you finally decided that you will stay on Windows 10, it makes sense to remove temporary files, by a few simple actions. We emphasize that described below should be done only in case if you do not plan to roll back from Windows 10 to the previous OS version.

How to free up space after upgrading to Windows 10:

Step 1: Click on the search button on the taskbar, find the utility “disk Cleanup” and run it. Alternatively, you can press Win+R, type cleanmgr and press the “OK”button.

Step 2: In the small window select system partition and click “OK”.

Step 3: In the window that appears, click “Clean up system files” (Clean up system files).

Step 4: Again select system partition and click “OK”.

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Step 5: In the window that appears, scroll down the list, check the box next to “Previous version of Windows” (Previous Windows installation(s)) and click the “OK”button.

Upon completion of this procedure you will get several gigabytes of free space.

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