What to save you, red fruit of the small disk?

After Windows 10 announced a free upgrade, many users upgraded directly to Windows 10 from an earlier version of the system. This operation is convenient, but for the small hard drive users are distressed-unconsciously, the hard drive how red!

In order to relieve the pressure of the hard disk, some solutions are provided for reference only.

Delete Windows.old folder/clean cache file

After installing Windows 10 with upgrade, the original system files are not deleted immediately, but instead are converted to the Windows.old folder for use as a life-saving pill for regret. If you find that the system is completely normal after the upgrade, no longer ready to go back to the previous system (no bugs will not be rolled back to 8.1!) ) to remove it.

Right-click on the system disk to select Properties, click on Disk Cleanup in the pop-up Properties dialog box, wait for the scan file and select Clean System files in the window that appears, you can delete them in the list. Similarly, browse the Web page generated cache files, installed system patches and so on can be deleted here, mosquito meat is also meat ah!

Transfer paging File/virtual memory to another disk

If you uncheck the "Hide protected system files" option, you'll see a scary big guy under the system disk.--pagefile.sys--is the so-called paging file, which in Windows can be thought of as virtual memory. Function Needless to say, when the memory is not enough to use a portion of the hard disk as memory, so, it must be in the system disk?

Winkey+pause Open the System window, select Advanced system settings on the left, click Settings in user's configuration under the Advanced tab, switch to the page to see the virtual memory settings, cancel the hosting of the system disk, specify the size in the non-system disk, or be managed by the system.

Settings-delete useless apps in storage

In the previous system, removing the program on the left requires uninstalling the program in the Control Panel-programs and features-Uninstaller, and the app installed on the store (Windows 8/8.1 only) needs to be removed separately in other locations.

In Windows 10, applications and programs can be managed in the same location, in addition to the default save File/app location, you can easily find "disk nail House" by category, delete the current space-intensive applications, but also for future files/applications to be placed.

Turn off the hibernate feature

When it comes to sleep, many people are confused by the look and sleep, and I'm part of it. Sleep, is to keep the computer the lowest running state, the memory is still stored in the data, but sleep is a state of power outage, in-memory data written to the Hiberfil.sys of the hard disk, it is also a small space, and this file is resident in the system disk can not be transferred.

If you are not ready to use hibernation at all, you can turn off hibernation directly so that the hibernation file is automatically deleted. Run the command prompt as an administrator, enter "Powercfg–h off" to turn off the Hibernate function, and if you need to turn it on again, switch off to on.

Turn off system Recovery

There is always a file protection mechanism on the Windows system that creates a restore point on the disk that can be restored to the nearest restore point to minimize the loss when there is a problem with the system or when an important file is mistakenly deleted, but this functionality is at the expense of disk space. The pros and cons must weigh themselves.

Search for "recovery" (recovery) in the Control Panel to open the recovery settings, select System disk click Configuration on the System Protection tab, then select Disable System protection.

Extended partition

After all the above methods have been tried, still feel the disk space is tight, you can use Disk Management to compress/delete the adjacent partition, and expand the compressed space to the system disk. This method is not omnipotent: it only applies to physically contiguous disks. How to understand, is in the disk Management, the right side of the system disk contiguous space can be extended, unallocated space can be extended to the C drive, but the left system reserved region even deleted, can not be extended to the C drive. Note: Physically continuous does not represent the drive letter continuous.

To extend the C drive, either compress the space in the adjacent partition or delete the partition directly. Right-click on adjacent partitions to see the appropriate options and follow the prompts to compress the compressible space. After compression, if the compressed space can be used to create a new partition, then move the data to the new partition, then delete the original partition.

With the continuous space, the system disk can be extended, the same is done on the system partition right-click, select "Expand Volume" followed the prompts.

Summary

The above method is only a temporary emergency response when the disk space is not available after upgrading Windows 10, and some operations are even at the expense of removing the application or even disabling the system. If conditions permit, it is recommended to re-plan the allocation of disk space.

What to save you, red fruit of the small disk?