Hello Guys welcome to my Windows 10 tips and tricks and today how to find out
what is taking up space on your hard drive so if we come down to the bottom
left click on the Windows icon click on Settings this is the left click on the
mouse and then we come up to here left click on System and then if we click on
Storage so on my computer I've got a C: Drive and a D: Drive, now my C: Drive is an
SSD superfast drive and my D: Drive is where I store all my data so if you just
left-click on the C: Drive this gives you a breakdown of what is actually stored
on this drive so 32GB of system reserved 20GB of Apps and Games and
what you can do here is after you've run this analysis you can actually click on
each individual selection so if we click on temporary files you can see a 5.78GB
of temporary files 725MB of downloads and what you can do is you
can tick on any of these and you can actually remove these files so instead
of Windows doing it for you say every 30 days if you've got that selected you can
actually force it and do that yourself, likewise if we go back we can click on
apps and games
This is how much storage space is being used let's go back so if we click on
Videos you can manage your videos, view the videos now what you can do from here
is Windows 10 has got a feature called storage sense and it will automatically free up
space by getting rid of any files you don't need you know temporary Internet
files temporary files when you're playing games or in apps or so you can
have this ticked ON or you can have it OFF so if it's ticked on and then when
we click on change how we free up space It actually tells you what it's done
so in the last month it's cleaned up 5GB of temporary files that I
don't need and any files have been in the recycle bin for over 30 days.
Obviously if you want stuff in your recycle bin for a long time you might
want to retrieve it then your best bet is to turn that off I'm leaving it on
because yeah why not free up some space so you can also click on this if you're
running low on space I mean should never be running low in space with Windows 10
obviously storage is so cheap now if you need extra space just buy an external
hard drive and plug that into the USB port. Now what I do is after going into
those options and analyzing your drives, open up File Explorer and then if I
go to say the C: Drive now what I personally do is if you click
in the Search window and then over here if you click on Size you can click on I
only want to see files which are large, huge or gigantic so if you just want a
quick search the best thing to do is just click on the Gigantic one this will
scan your drive for any files that are bigger than 128MB this is a very
simple way of creating extra space you might have a video on there that's
absolutely huge so you can see straight away if I'm sorting this by size so I've
got a movie on here which is 1.6GB and that is a big movie
so I can move that to my D: Drive or just delete it also I've got an Installed
ESD I'm not sure that is I'm not going to delete that because that's a
dangerous thing to do but I could Google that find out if I need it or not so
just you know it's a good idea just to go down here you think well I might not
need that one I might not need that one I can right-click on there and delete it
or I can cut it and then move it to my D: Drive and again if you're on your
D: Drive you could search for gigantic or file large etc. So hope that's helped
somebody out there. Thanks again Cheers for watching.