Windows 10: How can I free up drive space

How can I free up drive space from the Windows installer folder without killing Windows?

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How can you free up space on a phone drive?

My (Lumia 640) phone is letting me know that it's running out of space. This is mostly due to photos.

Can I delete them from the phone while letting them remain on the OneDrive cloud?

I know it's not possible to uninstall the built-in Windows Mobile apps I'll never use (Groove Music, Xbox, Movies & TV) but can I delete that data from those apps?

For instance Movies & TV: In Storage/Apps/Movies & TV/Advanced options the app has 22mb and data is 16.5mb Groove music has another 32.2mb of data, dunno why I never use it. There's a reset button but it's grayed out.

Thanks for any help.

Moved from: Mobile Devices / Microsoft Lumia and Nokia Lumia / Settings / 600-series

 

How can you free up space on a phone drive?

Hello,

You can free up space on your Lumia by uninstalling applications, moving files to a PC, SD card or other devices and deleting temporary or unnecessary files. If you created a back up or sync the photos from your phone, it is safe to delete it on your device
and download it later if you need it. To better help you on how to use OneDrive on Windows phone, you can visit this
link.

Some apps especially Windows Mobile built-in apps doesn't allow the reset option. The only way to clear its data is to perform a
hard reset on the phone. Take note that this method will
remove all contents on your phone so make sure to
create a back up to avoid any data loss and to easily restore files. You can do a hard reset by going to
Settings > System > About >
Reset your phone. This might take a little while to complete.

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Option Two here:
Open and Use Disk Cleanup in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Performance Maintenance Tutorials

 

Dear Adrian:
NavyLCDR is absolutely right, but there's more you can do above and beyond Disk Cleanup. I've blogged or written about this topic many times, so here are some links:
1. SearchEnterpriseDesktop "How to create more Windows 10 disk space"
2. CIO.com: "How to reduce Windows 10's on-disk footprint"
3. Windows Enterprise Desktop blog "Another Nice System Drive Cleanup Maneuver"
4. Pearson QUE: "Reducing the Amount of Storage Space Required for Windows Driver Store"
You will also find tutorials here at TenForums that describe how to move folder locations from the boot/system drive to other drives (a great way to free up space on tight boot/system drives) by running this search.
For really constrained disk situations, this tutorial is also quite helpful: Compress or Uncompress Windows 10 with Compact OS - Windows 10 General Tips Tutorials .
HTH,
--Ed--

 

To find out just how much can be recovered, in an elevated command prompt type:
dism /online /cleanup-image /analyzeComponentStore

For your options, type:
dism /online /cleanup-image /?

The most powerful (Note the WARNING!) being the ResetBase option: Code: /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup [/ResetBase [/Defer]] Use /StartComponentCleanup to clean up the superseded components and reduce the size of the component store. Use /ResetBase to reset the base of superseded components, which can further reduce the component store size. Use /Defer with /ResetBase to defer long-running cleanup operations to the next automatic maintenance. WARNING! The installed Windows Updates cannot be uninstalled after the /StartComponentCleanup with /ResetBase operation is completed.[/quote] My system has been progressively updated since the initial upgrade to 10240 in July 2015. ResetBase recovered some 3-4GB, and that's on top of regularly using Disk Clean-up to clean up system files and windows updates.