How to free up space after updating to windows 10 fall creators update

Windows 10 Fall Creators Update is now official. Microsoft has released a couple of days ago the largest update of its operating system. Over the next few days and weeks, millions of users will update to this new version of the operating system. Version that includes a series of improvements in its operation.

How to free up to 30 GB of space after upgrading to Windows 10 Fall Creators Update

An update like this involves downloading a lot of files and information. Also, Microsoft files don't go anywhere after upgrade. So the update to Fall Creators Update can take up a considerable amount of space on your hard drive. The good part is that there is a way to reclaim that space.

Recover space with Disk Clean-up

The process is very simple. Go to start and in the search bar you must type Disk Clean-up or Cleanup. You will see that you get an application with this name. We right click on your name and the first option that comes up is to run as administrator (run as administrator). We select this option.

Disk Clean-Up will then take care of how much space can be recovered. This process may take a while, but in the meantime there is something else we can do. We click on the Clean up system files button. This tool will take care of recovering the space on your computer, but it will also include recent updates. So it also affects Windows 10 Fall Creators Update.

This means that the space savings can be more than great. In some cases it can reach 30 GB. So you are sure to save a huge amount of space on your hard drive. In Windows 10 Fall Creators Update you can also do it in another way. The path is Settings> System> Storage and then you have the option to select change how to free up space.