For more info, see Reinstall Windows. For more info, see Low Disk Space error due to a full Temp folder. Storage Sense can automatically free up drive space for you by getting rid of items that you don't need, like temporary files and items in your Recycle Bin.
For more info, see Manage drive space with Storage Sense. If your system doesn't have Storage sense, you can use the Disk Cleanup tool to delete temporary files and system files from your device. In the search box on the taskbar, type disk cleanup , then select it from the results. Select the check box next to the type of files you want to delete. To view a description of each type of file, select the name.
Be sure to clear those check boxes if you don't want to delete those files. To free up even more space, select Clean up system files , and then select the type of system files you want to delete. Disk Cleanup will take a few moments to calculate the amount of space that can be freed up. If you need to free up drive space, you can delete it, but keep in mind that you'll be deleting your Windows.
If you delete your previous version of Windows, this can't be undone. You won't be able to go back to your previous version of Windows. Selecting this option compresses the drive on which Windows is installed, helping you gain extra space to install important updates. This action does not delete the contents of this drive, and you shouldn't experience problems opening and saving files from the compressed drive. After you install the update, you can manually decompress the OS drive at any time.
Right-click or tap and hold the OS drive usually disk C , and then select Properties on the shortcut menu. Windows 11 may indicate that it needs more space to get the latest Windows 11 feature update. You can use an external storage device to help you complete the update.
To learn more, see Free up space for Windows updates. Personal files such as videos, music, photos, and documents can take up a lot of space on your device. To see which files are using the most space:. Select File Explorer from the taskbar and find the files you want to move.
Under This PC in the menu on the left, select a folder to see what files are saved in it. If there are files you no longer need on your device, you can either delete them or move them to an external storage device like a USB drive or an SD card. Note: If you delete any files, remember to empty the Recycle Bin to completely remove them from your device and free up space. To move photos, music, videos, or other files that you want to keep but don't use very often, consider saving them to an external storage device like a USB drive or an SD card.
You'll still be able to use them when the drive is connected, but they won't take up space on your PC. Select File Explorer from the taskbar and go to the folder that contains the files you want to move.
Select the files, then select Cut on the ribbon. Navigate to the location of the external storage device you connected, then select Paste. Instead of saving all your new files to the default drive, you can save some of them to a different drive that has more free space. Open Storage settings.
For each content type, select a drive from the drop-down menu. If the drive you want to use isn't listed there, make sure it's connected to your PC. You can save space by turning on OneDrive Files On-Demand, which stores a smaller placeholder file on your hard drive instead of the full-size file that's stored in your OneDrive account in the cloud.
You'll be able to get to your OneDrive files from your PC without having to use up hard-drive space downloading full-size versions of them all. Sometimes a virus or other malware can consume significant hard-drive space by corrupting your system files. If you suspect your PC is infected with malware, use an antivirus program like Windows Defender to run a virus scan and cleanup.
If this doesn't fix the problem, you might need to reset your PC. This is also recommended if your attempts to free up drive space trigger particular error codes that you need help resolving. The following questions concern low disk space and Windows Update specifically.
Learn more about Windows Update. When you select Fix issues , you'll be informed about how much additional space is needed. Learn how to free up space to install Windows updates. The total free disk space your device requires to complete an update varies. In fact it's critical to have it and totally unacceptable to NOT have it after having it for more than a decade. It was a long-standing Windows feature that should be left in optional at least. Like I mentioned, it can be added on Windows 7 by Classic Shell and there is no significant slowdown or performance loss.
What Microsoft has done here unintentionally maybe is they choose not to show it in their OS. Fair enough. But by making the status bar control private, they prevent third parties from showing this valuable bit of information. So now you have to select all files and deselect all the folders to see the total size of all files in a folder. Another thing to note is that the status bar itself can be entirely disabled so there is no question of SMB chattiness on network for those who are concerned.
Just turn it off then. Zone information is not too valuable but not entirely useless either. It's not a particularly big loss.
On SMB shares, it's useful to know if the files are being treated as in the local intranet or not. Again it's about the speed of your workflow. A tooltip doesn't show instantly and you need to hover with your mouse precisely over each file one by one. Whereas using the keyboard and keeping an eye on the status bar, this same info can be viewed pretty quickly three times fast.
It was very useful to view metadata about the file. Suppose if have 50 files in a folder, most certainly selecting the topmost file then hitting the down arrow key and viewing the status bar is faster than hovering over all 50 of them one by one. Many of these status bar issues were raised by Windows 7 and Vista users too but instead of addressing them in Windows 8, MS is taking them away and also taking away the ability of third party apps to fix it. Some examples of users asking about the status bar: 1.
Drive "free space" is missing in Windows Explorer, why? How to see free disk space in Explorer status bar? How do I make the status bar in Explorer work properly?
Free space not displayed in Windows Explorer. Windows Explorer Status bar Free space in status bar not there in Explorer anymore In Windows XP Pro, there was folder size stated. Is that available in Vista? Are you listening, Microsoft? A dynamically expandable Storage Space doesn't have quite the same concept because the volume expands using free space from a storage pool that may be shared amongst multiple spaces.
Similarly it's not necessarily a trivial task for storage volumes on a SAN or held in the cloud. And it's exceptionally confusing when dealing with file system quotas, users often report issues saving files when they can see "there is still Gigabytes of free space" because they've actually gone over-quota.
Providing misleading figures is worse than not providing any figure at all. It's not about Explorer slowing down, it's the amount of network traffic that gets generated by browsing. This is a real-world problem on large networks and making computers less "chatty" can offer significant benefits in terms of throughput and equipment cost.
Just "making it optional" doesn't really help, if it's not really critical information to the core workflow then the cost of testing, maintenance and support both in and out of Microsoft can heavily outweigh the benefits. I still call xxxx. No amount of excuses or justification is convincing enough against the removal of this critically useful feature. I guess to each his own but if Microsoft is indeed interested in listening to feedback, they would put it right back.
They can of course disable the reporting of free disk space on dynamic disks, yet keep it on a regular basic volumes.
There are always ways to work around an issue but instead of fixing things, they are yanking features of the OS. They don't want to put the time or effort. I guess customers refusing to upgrade is not a good enough reason? Users who want to see the extra data - that is, the dual - click on any free space of the status bar. Click again to revert to the default view - that is, the single. Although switching to the dual would not be a permanent setting - even for new Explorer windows in the same user session, the large "Fitts Law-Friendly" target area of the status bar would make switching modes very fast for most users.
There are always ways to work around an issue Of course. If it were true that reporting of free space for a Storage Space pool were problematical, this field could simply be "grayed-out", with the free space displayed with the string 'Storage Space' as a placeholder.
The content you requested has been removed. Ask a question. In XP you could see how much space was free down the bottom in the status bar. It would say how many objects there are and the disk space that was free. How can I turn this on in Windows 7? Going back to the root of that particular drive is annoying, when I should be able to see how much free space I have from any folder.
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