Windows 10: Free up 4.8 GB on C:\ drive Windows 10 after all system files cleaned - why this order?

Why doesn't the powercfg /h / reduced work the first time?


Right click on the C:\ drive and choose Properties from properties box (at bottom)

In the C drive properties, choose Disk Cleanup

In the next window, look for the button at the bottom Clean Up System Files - run this.

This one may take a while. The C:\ drive is now minimized.


During Windows 7, I bought a 64 GB SSD. It was expensive then and seemed like a lot of hard drive.

Windows takes up around 22 GB - then my MS Office 2010, Sony Movie editor and other programs take up a lot of space. This left 10.1 GB of Free Space.

I don't want to turn off the Hibernation completely. But, there is a partial reduction in Hibernation.


powercfg /h /type full
works, but the alternative option
powercfg /h /type reduced
gives "The parameter is incorrect." Funny - this is what Windows 10 Help claims will work. it doesn't

work - it returns an error message.

to fix this - run the following. It will return a message about using 6 GB
powercfg /h /size 1
(in spite of the minimum percentage being shown as 40), then
powercfg /h /type reduced
Wow now my SSD C:\ drive shows an extra 4.7 GB of Free Space

I am now at 14.8 of 64 GB SSD space

B.T.W. On my Virtual Memory - I added a 32GB USB3 drive and taped it to the back of my PC so it can't be pulled out. The Virtual Memory was sent to the Flash Drive E:\ so it doesn't take up space on my SSD C:\ drive. Even with an older Pentium - the SSD and Virtual Memory run really fast (16 GB of RAM).

---------------- Copy from my CMD Screen ------------

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.17134.471]
(c) 2018 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>powercfg /h /type reduced
The parameter is incorrect.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>powercfg /h /size 1
The hiberfile size has been set to: 6842802176 bytes.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>powercfg /h /type reduced
The hiberfile size has been set to: 3421401088 bytes.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>Rem Wow now my C:\ drive shows an extra 4.7 GB of Free Space

:)

 

c users need to delete all 5 gb 3 gb for One Drive can I delets all these files?

c users greg one drive has 3 gb and I need all this space I bought the acer cloud book with 25 gb and have .8 free on my documents I only have 400 megs used I did properties on all of drive and found 5 gb on c users greg and 3 gb was for one drive
properties I need help to del 5 gb to free this up as ms update fails as not enough space....

I suggest you to delete the unwanted data and unused applications to clean up the drive.

5 gb on c users is the only large gb I found others must be hidden in c system files for the other 20 gb

I can buy a 64 gb flash drive for 20 dollars is there a way to move the 5 gb in c users to this?

You suggest to delete the unwanted data..... I need to know what you mean data as its all c users greg 5 gb and in this c users greg one drive 3 gb and you said this will do me no good to delete.... so is the 20 gb all in the c system hidden files?

thanks

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Windows 10 forced download

To stop the download, uninstall the KB3035583 update (under "Control Panel > Windows Update > Installed Updates").


To get rid of the C:\$Windows.~BT folder:

• Right-click on your C: drive.
• Select "Properties".
• Click on [ Disk Cleanup ]
• After the initial scan: If you have a [ Clean up system files ] button, click it and wait for the second scan to finish.
• Scroll down the list and look for "Temporary Windows installation files" (its size should be in the gigabytes range); check the box.
• Click on [ OK ] to start the clean-up.