Windows 10’s “Free Up Space Now” Ushers In a New Era for Disk Cleanup

[Faybert]

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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-s-free-up-space-now-ushers-in-a-new-era-for-disk-cleanup/

With the imminent release of Windows 10 build 1803, also known as the Spring Creators Update, we may be seeing the end of the Disk Cleanup program. In this latest feature update a new Setting has been added called "Free up space now" that performs the same function as Disk Cleanup, but in my opinion, does a better job.

Free up space now Setting
Like Disk Cleanup, Free up space now scans Windows 10 for temporary files that it can delete to free up disk space on the computer. It will then auto select the items that have the least impact when deleted and total the amount of space that would be freed up. As you select more items to remove, the total amount of space that will be removed will increase.

Some of the items that are scanned to free up disk space include "Windows upgrade log files", "System created Windows Error Reporting Files", "Windows Defender Antivirus", "Thumbnails", "Previous Windows installation(s)", "Temporary Internet Files", "Device Driver Files", "Delivery Optimization Files", and "DirectX Shade Cache". These items vary depending on the files detected on the computer.

To access Free up space now, you can find it under the Storage Settings screen as shown below. To access this page, simply type "Storage" in the Start Menu search field and select the Storage result that appears. The Free up space now option will appear under the Storage sense section.
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[Ink]

Not to bump the thread, but using this new Storage sense settings "Free up space" to clear Previous Windows installation(s) is very fast compared to the old Windows Disk Cleanup method.

 

[ForgottenSeer 58943]

Talk about coincidence. I JUST used the new cleanup system last night and was impressed. It was quick and thorough to the point we may not need third party tools.

It freed up over 28GB on a system that had both Privacy Eraser and Wise on it. Not bad.

 

[Weebarra]

Talk about coincidence. I JUST used the new cleanup system last night and was impressed. It was quick and thorough to the point we may not need third party tools.

It feed up over 28GB on a system that had both Privacy Eraser and Wise on it. Not bad.

Crikey that is some amount of space to gain, good job