How to install windows 10 with minimalizing used disk space

[ga214]

Hi All,
My question is, how can I install Windows 10, that it uses the less disc space, it can?
My problem is, that I have laptop with 64 GB SSD, and after upgrading (from windows 8.1) to Windows 10, the used space is more than 35 GB, so now I have a very little free disc space now.
Thanks!

 

[davidhk129]

My problem is, that I have laptop with 64 GB SSD, and after upgrading (from windows 8.1) to Windows 10, the used space is more than 35 GB, so now I have a very little free disc space now.

PROVIDED you are certain your Win 10 is running fine without issues, you can then delete windows.old which will give you back tons of disk space.

Caution : if you remove windows.old, you will NOT be able to use the Go back to Windows 8.1 option under Recover.
However, windows.old is supposed to be deleted automatically after 30 days of installing Windows 10.

Have a look at those replies from another forum.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...d-how-to/e7378b73-9b22-459a-b1af-3414d3c3e600

Personally, I do not use the built-in Disk Cleanup app.
I prefer to use Ccleaner which has a Free edition to choose from.

How to use Ccleaner to remove Windows.old......
Open Ccleaner > left side, scroll down to Advanced heading > check " Old Windows installations " > right side, click Analyze > when done it will show you how much disk space can be saved > click Run cleaner > when finished, it will tell you how much disk space has been retrieved.

https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download

 

[ga214]

Thanks, I could save a lot of space with deleting windows.old directory