Surprises with storage on your PC? So you can activate the capacity warning of your hard drive

When getting hold of a computer, it is normal to access one of the modern systems that have SSD storage systems. Some solid-state hard drives that offer a smaller storage capacity that stays away from the terabytes that until now HDDs offered, although the access speed they provide is much higher.

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This decrease in capacity makes users value more than ever the free capacity offered by our hard drive and think about wasting it megabytes, so efficient and intelligent cleaning is more than necessary.And this is what allows this somewhat hidden Windows 10 option that is called Storage Sensor."

You may still have a dual storage system on your computer and by combining an HDD and an SSD you can get more out of it. In this way you can have 2 TB of capacity for content and 256 or 512 GB (in the best of cases) for the operating system and the most common programs. A common option that, however, does not prevent us from being interested in controlling the storage space that we have available And that is something that we can now do in a simple way with this function.

This is a functionality that comes with the spring update, the one we know as Creators Update and although it is disabled by default, Enabling it is extremely easy by following these steps.

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First of all we look for the cogwheel on the left and at the bottom of the screen that gives us access to the Settings. It is the previous step to be able to enter the System section of our team."

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Once inside we have to look in the column on the left for a section titled Storage in which we must enter by _clicking_ on the link."

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At that moment a new screen opens corresponding to Storage Sensor in which we see how it appears by default disabled. We can click on the tab that will turn blue to enable it."

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At that moment an option is activated that appears under the previous tab with the name Change the way to free up space and click on the so that a new window opens."

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In this new screen the device offers us two options: Delete temporary files that my applications do not use andDelete files that have been in the recycle bin for more than 30 days and activate the one that interests us. In addition, at that very moment we can carry out a cleaning of the disk."

From that moment on the system will allow intelligent cleaning of the useless files that are stored on the hard disk so that we can be calmer while we avoid having to use third-party applications.

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