On August 2, Microsoft officially launched the second major Windows 10 update, which as almost all of us know has been baptized as Anniversary Update. At the moment it is not available to all users, although from Redmond they have already confirmed that in a few days it will reach all those who currently use their new operating system, which has been on the market for a year and has more than 300 million facilities.
If you are lucky enough to have already received the Windows 10 update, you will surely have noticed that your storage space has been reduced considerably. And is that The Anniversary Update consumes 25 GB of our hard disk, which today we are going to show you how to recover them in a simple way.
How to recover 25 GB after installing Windows 10 Anniversary Update
To recover 25 GB of internal storage after installing the second major update to Windows 10, you just have to follow the steps shown below;
- First of all we must access File Explorer or My Computer, to locate the drive where we have installed Windows 10
- On the unit in which you have installed you must click with the right mouse button and select the Properties option
- In the General menu, tap the Free up space
- In the window that opens, you must press the Clean system files button
- From the list that will be displayed, you must check the option Previous installations of Windows and also the option of Temporary files of Windows installations. Then press OK
- The process will take a few minutes, but when it is finished, and depending on the installations you have done, you should have between 10 and 25 GB more storage space.
Finally, you have to bear in mind that by deleting these files you will not be able to return to the previous version of Windows 10 that you were using, although if the Anniversary Update works correctly there should be no reason why you should return to the previous version of the operating system.
Ready to reclaim 25GB of storage after installing the Windows 10 Anniversary Update?.