Guide | How To How to freeover 10GB of disk space after installing Windows 10 Anniversary Update

[Andytay70]

How to Free Over 10GB of Disk Space After Installing Windows 10’s Anniversary Update

Did you just install the Anniversary update? If so, there’s more than 10 GB of data wasting space on your hard drive. On a laptop or tablet with a limited amount of storage, this can fill up your device quite a bit.

If you have a computer with a large amount of available storage, you might not even notice this useless data. It’ll stick around for 30 days until Windows automatically cleans it up. But, if you’re pressed for space, you’ll want to clean it up as soon as possible.

 

[Deleted member 178]

Also use Wisedisk Cleaner; you will save even more space, especially by removing install file.

 

[frogboy]

Also use Wisedisk Cleaner; you will save even more space, especially by removing install file.

It is true. Cheers.

 

[Der.Reisende]

You could also try Disk Cleanup, built-in Win10 (and earlier) feature.
Running it with "cleanup system files", after updating to Win10 Anniversary Update, I got 21.2 GB data to be removed safely. Most of the space was from the update.
It is even worth after Win10 upgrade from earlier 7/8,...

Disk Cleanup - Open and Use in Windows 10

 

[Vasudev]

Also, Bleachbit does a good job of scrubbing unneeded files from the system. Does upgrading from TH2 to Anniv cause this?

 

[Der.Reisende]

Also, Bleachbit does a good job of scrubbing unneeded files from the system. Does upgrading from TH2 to Anniv cause this?

I'll answer on that question, hopefully I was meant Yes, most of it was due to the update, it's the backup, if you decide to move back to the previous version. Should be the same as stated here Windows 10 - How to freeover 10GB of disk space after installing Windows 10 Anniversary Update

 

[Vasudev]

I updated it today. I can cleanup upto 20GB as said by cleanmgr.

 

[Vasudev]

I still have some old service leftover after upgrading from TH2 to RS1 any ideas, how to remove them? Some of them are MS messaging, user data sync from TH2.

 

[Ink]

I still have some old service leftover after upgrading from TH2 to RS1 any ideas, how to remove them? Some of them are MS messaging, user data sync from TH2.

Are they in Windows.Old folder that have not been removed by Windows Disk Cleanup?

If so, do not delete. I did a similar thing before and rendered Windows to a non-stable state.

 

[Vasudev]

No, evidently they are in Services.msc. Even I deleted my Old Windows Installations using cleanmgr and deleted some more remnants using linux.

 

[DJ Panda]

Space isn't that much of an issue for me. Doesn't the way the Windows Update work kind of like P2P and benefit everyone installing?

 

[Deleted member 178]

Space isn't that much of an issue for me. Doesn't the way the Windows Update work kind of like P2P and benefit everyone installing?

yes if you have several Win10 machine in your network they can share their install files to make the updates faster.

 

[DJ Panda]

yes if you have several Win10 machine in your network they can share their install files to make the updates faster.

It can also share the files with people on the internet if selected.

 

[Vasudev]

I disabled Windows DO to keep unwanted data downloads on limited internet plan.