Windows 10

Low Disk Space After Installing Windows Updates. How to Fix?

You can face the problem of low disk space on the system drive after you have installed the next update for Windows 10. Here is how to clean up your SSD storage to free up some space.

Method 1. Clean up system files and save space

Click on Clean up system files in the system disk’s properties (See the details in our guide):

Method 2. Free up some space after the installation of a Windows Update using the Settings app

Open Settings:

Go to System Storage.
Click on your system disk (in most cases “C:”):

Click on Temporary files:

Check Previous version of Windows.
Click on Remove files:

Storage Recommendations

We recommend to use at least 150 GB for your system partition. Otherwise you will keep facing the same problems after each update. The thing is that you cannot install the upgrade directly from the Internet. You need some space to download it first and that you need storage to deploy the update. So, it’s reasonable to buy at least 256 GB SSD drives in 2020.

Adam Swift

Adam is a real tech maniac. He likes to spend time testing phones, tablets, laptops, as well as any other technical devices, and write practical manuals on their functions. He often sleeps all day, but always works at night. Adam bought his first computer in 1999, being an absolute beginner who never held a computer mouse in his hands. He began to study Windows, constantly experimented and often crashed the operating system. But six months later, he was able to reinstall Windows 98 from a scratch on his own, fix almost any software problem on a PC, he also did hardware upgrades and realized that computers, operating systems and programs are now his biggest passion. In addition, Adam has always been a big lover of phones. With the advent of smartphones with Android OS, he began to pick at them much more than in computers. Now Adam loves to study privacy issues in instant messengers, blocking unwanted calls and other nuances related to privacy and security on the network. You can follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tunecomp

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