Windows 10: What is WinRE?

I have Windows 10 running on a 250Gb hard drive. But the latest update hasn't got space to install.
I have removed all of the potentially wasteful Apps, but with no success.
When I look in Defrag and Optimise, there are 2 drives; C:\ and WinRE. WinRE is labelled as "never run" and refuses to defrag.
I assume it is a copy of a Windows install, but would be grateful if anyone knows better.
What is it, and how do I get rid of it?

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Apps not closing, still running in background

Thanks for the response. I am not looking for a "close all" function. Sometimes I intentionally want to leave an app running. In windows phone 8.1, I could exit and close th app by merely selecting the arrow/back button, I am looking for that same functionality.
When I'm in an app, I want to be able to exit directly from there and not have it continuing in the background.

 

Apps not closing, still running in background

I just got my Lumia 950 phone. On my prior Windows phone, when I pressed the arrow/back button on the bottom left screen, I would exit the app. On Windows 10 phone, I've been doing that and I just realized I'm not exiting the apps. I had intentionally not
exited an app (because it had my boarding pass). Instead of back button, I pressed the middle window button. Later when I went back to call up my airline app, I pressed the arrow/back button and held it. Similar to my old windows phone, it showed me all the
apps that were open. SURPRISE! unlike my previous phone, no app had been closing. Right now, I can't seem to find a "one click" way to exit an app. The only way is after I've done a few things, I hold the back button and click the "X" on each of the open items.

Can someone tell me how to exit an app with one click or swipe so that it is not still running, i.e. when I press the back button I will not see it? I'm sure this is something simple. I search the instructions that came with the phone and looked in the
forum but haven't found the answer.

thanks in advance the assist.

 

It means Windows "recovery Environment" so OS uses it to help restore settings or repair

 

Hello GavtheNav, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

WinRE is for booting to Windows Recovery Environment (aka: Advanced Startup). It's a system partition that doesn't needed to be defragged since Windows doesn't write to it.

 

WinRe is a recovery partition and facilitates Windows system error recovery. I would not advise deleting it as that will hamper future recovery efforts.

An explanation of the WinRe is provided in the link below:

Windows Preinstallation Environment - Wikipedia

 

Thanks for your prompt replies guys. It seems that the problem is not where I thought it was!

 

You can move your User files (ie) Music, Pictures, Documents etc to another drive like an External USB.
Or You can also get a much larger drive and clone our existing drive to it and then swap it.