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What Can I Delete?

EarthboundHero
By EarthboundHero
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So, I've got Windows 10 installed and set up. Everything is working great and I intend to keep it. Now my SSD has 20GB's less space, so what can I remove? There's 3, new folders on the C drive. $Windows.~BT, $Windows.~WS and Windows.old. Which of those can I delete to save space?

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Go to cleanup and choose system files or something like that and choose everything

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Windows.old has files from your previous windows install, check if you need to save anything from there (personal) otherwise afaik there's no reason to keep it.

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Go to cleanup and choose system files or something like that and choose everything

Did that, still have $Windows.~WS which is almost 6GB.

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I've just used CCleaner and a tick box for "Old Windows Installation" and it got rid of the Windows.old and $Windows.~BT. I manually deleted the $Windows.~WS. I'm going to restart see if anything changed :P brb

 

EDIT: Booted up and everything seems fine and the same so I'd say you are good to delete them.

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Did that, still have $Windows.~WS which is almost 6GB.

did what keemo said and freed up 14GB 

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it didnt work for me.

disk clean up and click clean up system files. 

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Go to cleanup and choose system files or something like that and choose everything

 

 

Windows.old has files from your previous windows install, check if you need to save anything from there (personal) otherwise afaik there's no reason to keep it.

 

 

I've just used CCleaner and a tick box for "Old Windows Installation" and it got rid of the Windows.old and $Windows.~BT. I manually deleted the $Windows.~WS. I'm going to restart see if anything changed :P brb

 

EDIT: Booted up and everything seems fine and the same so I'd say you are good to delete them.

 

 

did what keemo said and freed up 14GB 

Thanks all, my SSD is back up to 96 gigs.

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Laptop: 

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Intel Core i3-5005U, 8GB RAM, Crucial MX 100 128GB, Touch-Screen, Intel 7260 WiFi/Bluetooth card.

 Phone:

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TruPureX, Asus Zenwatch 3.

 Game Consoles:

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Softmodded Fat PS2 w/ 80GB HDD, and a Dreamcast.

 

If you want my attention quote my post, or tag me. If you don't use PCPartPicker I will ignore your build.

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