Slimming down Windows 10?

[bocajoe]

I have a 32gb SSD on one of my machines with Windows 10 Home 64 Bit on it. I am looking for ways to slim/trim down Windows 10 so I can gain a little more room on the tiny SSD.

Any suggestions?

 

[bocajoe]

I kind of figured out the best you can do is delete as much as you can from

Settings -> System -> Storage

and then select your drive to show all the storage being usage. It will show you how much space is being used and for what... just be sure you know what you are deleting.

I found the biggest space hogs in Temporary Files and Other.

Hope this helps somebody else!

 

[ex_bubblehead]

32GB is just barely enough for the OS alone. As soon as you start installing software you will quickly run that drive out of space. Even if you specify another drive there are .DLL's and other required files that must live on that system drive. That small an SSD is probably old and in need of replacement anyway.

 

[bocajoe]

Yes 32GB is plenty small. It's in a newer HP Stream 13-c002dx touchscreen notebook that I use for quick browsing and research... I find it much more useful for mundane tasks than my iPad mini. It does have space for a 64GB MicroSD card which I will be getting in the next day or two.