Windows 10: Experts Says Free Windows 10 Would Be a Risky Experiment

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Risky Way to Free Space

Recently, I've discovered that I've had slightly less free space on my laptop than I normally would. Tonight, I've discovered I have over 31 GB of used space, 23 of which is reserved for "System & reserved". I'm tempted to remove the system files; but
it says my PC won't work without them. This worries me that it may not function properly if I do.

Here are the screenshots to back up my concern:













Is there a safe way I can remove all that space?

I look forward to your reply.

 

Risky Way to Free Space

When you run disk cleanup ... it will have a button after the first scan to clean system files too... so it then does a second more thorough scan and presents with a more robust series of check boxes to select from.... Additionally after that second scan
you can click the tab for More Options and clean up all but your last restore point too.





If you don't run backups or keep a system image you might additionally run this;

Command Prompt (admin)

wmic shadowcopy delete

There is an additional command you might be interested in too. Could be some bytes there.

But before running it, many say to stop Windows Search service temporarly;

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /AnalyzeComponentStore

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup

Manually running the system maintenance can be beneficial at times to clean up some things too.

Control Panel / Security and Maintenance / click on maintenance and you should see System Maintenance.

 

Yea I doubt Microsoft is going to do anything differently than when 8 was released so dream a little dream but Microsoft rarely gives anything away for free,
They might giveaway free phones *Tongue

 

Yes,, Free is not in the cards IMO. I just hope for a fair price for early adopters.

 

That is realistic Jeff
I doubt Microsoft will limit it to testers but for the first month or so a discounted upgrade only option,
That is Microsoft's ultimate goal for people to "upgrade" a prior os version,
Not sure why Microsoft would exclude any prior os's like Vista or x-p either if system spec's are compatible
Or would those holdouts be an obvious skip :/

 

The trick with free is deciding who would qualify for it and who wouldn't. In that situation MS can't please everyone so the in the end they'll simply charge everyone some price.

 

I believe I'm going to re-install 8-8.1 and use the tool kit to use windows update to get 10 in anticipation of the upgrade offer discount *Wink
It pains me to load that thing back up but that is the expendable os either that or an old Vista key *Tongue
It would be more straight forward to allow the prior/ expendable os activation key to activate 10 with
But for Microsoft might be a bit too straight forward ?

 

I've got my PC set up with a dual boot of Win8.1 and Win10(for testing). If Win10 is a inexpensive or free upgrade from Win8.1 I'm all set to go!! *Biggrin

 

If MS really want to eliminate as many prior versions of Windows as possible, they could offer a huge discount on W10 if you return your official Windows install media ("factory cash back").

If they used the "factory cash back" model it wouldn't upset the retailers.

 

lehnerus2000
How would that work for OEM computers?
A lot of people don't have a windows install media, most come pre-installed.
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It wouldn't (unless you had discs).

I'm not sure what you mean.

It would be a bonus for MS (i.e. they wouldn't have to pay out).

The point would be to eliminate install media (DVDs) for old versions of Windows.
Laptop recovery partitions are going to wear out sooner or later.

 

Of course, it will be.

 

It would be a bonus for MS (i.e. they wouldn't have to pay out).

The point would be to eliminate install media (DVDs) for old versions of Windows.
Laptop recovery partitions are going to wear out sooner or later. That would tick OEM users off. I lucked out and dell sent me a re-installation disk of windows 7 but it was like pulling teeth to get it. Come to find out later, the slowness was cause by a bad motherboard. Microsoft also needs to included the OEM users as well.


I edited my previous post, it is kind of hard to put somethings in writing.


What about this way
$10.00 (U.S. dollars) Windows 10 Home Premium (Get it windows 10 for $10.00 for home users)
$50.00 Windows 10 Pro
$xxx.xx Windows 10 enterprise
No subscriptions required

This would be for everyone & you could change architecture if you do a clean install.

 

Hi there

What a boring planet we would live on if people didn't sometimes take a risk --applies to businesses too. Go on Ms - you could say let the first 250,000 downloaders do it to limit the numbers and use BITTORRENT to stop your servers crashing or getting overloaded. Bittorrent is a perfectly legitimate way of downloading (Legal) material - I often download Linux distros etc that way - not a problem at all if the torrents come from 100% legitimate sites.


Cheers
jimbo