Windows 10: Tweaking Windows 10

My thoughts.

When using a tool built into Windows 10 is the safest way.
Windows 10 tries to protect itself so it should not remove things that will hurt your system.

Jack

 

What have you got in it? Open it in TreeSize, drill down and have a look. The details may not be obvious but if you right click and look at properties you should find out where big things are from - either in the name or in details tab.

Old (or multiple) copies of Office (especially Access whether you have it installed or not) add a huge amount to installer directory. Mine shrank to almost nothing going from Office 2010 to 2016. Actually it is now about 1GB of which half is from Macrium Reflect.

You might find there is some old junk you can delete that an old uninstaller left hanging around.

I'd not move stuff from installer for a program I was still using but most likely you could without too much trouble - you could always move it back or re-install the program concerned.

As long as your disk has 10% or so free then no.

In the olden days some people said putting frequently accessed files near the start of a HDD was faster (as the outside spins faster than the middle by about 10%). So some people would shift unused or rarely used files to separate slower partition towards the end of the same disk.

With SSD this is irrelevant. If it ever made a noticeable difference I doubt.

 

I go along with that. Especially since the SSD partition still has about 40% or so available. Deal with it, if and when the available storage drops below 20%....

 

Hi for reduce size of system Windows i use this
Dism++ | New Windows Utility (can be considered as a GUI frontend of DISM)

 

To solve storage problems I use these:



Rather than hunting for files to purge (and risking the consequences of an ill-informed decision), it's cheap and easy to just upgrade your storage.

Terabytes are cheap these days. Very cheap.