Reclaim about 20 GB of data on C drive after installing Windows 10

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Whenever you upgrade your Windows to the Windows Insider preview or the official build, you'll notice a significant decrease in the amount of data you had in your root drive, i.e , in the C drive, something around 20 GB. For those using an older HDD or even an SDD (solid-state drive), this can be a big hit to useful amount of storage.

Luckily there's a way by which you can clear up to 20 GB of data from C: or even more as much as the update/upgrade might have eaten up.

Right click on the C drive and choose properties.

Now select Disk Cleanup

Now this shows how much space is freeable on your current Windows. You can choose to clean these up or as per our objective, clean up more space. To do so click on the "Clean up system files" option. Let the disk cleanup relaunch.


After it has scanned, the disk cleanup will show you how much space can be freed on your system in total and will ask you to check which files you want to remove.


Now you see there are entries which cover a big chunk of data. Select these files(the ones marked by arrows) and click OK.


NOTE: By clearing the entries Previous Windows installation(s) and Temporary Windows installation files you won't be able to roll back to your previous version of Windows so do this after you are absolutely sure that you want to do this. 


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