C drive is not enough space-saving methods are here

At present, the price of SSDs remains high, and consumers who want to install DIY machines or upgrade computers are afraid to start easily. For example, the editors A, B, and C in our editorial department are still using 120GB/128GB, which was purchased on a laptop or when they were cheaper a few years ago. As long as it is not partitioned, everything is fine, those who have divided the area, and occasionally upgrade a game, install a software horse, mournful sounds will never stop earing a bird!

How can I say that, no matter how large we partition the C drive, Windows has a way to fill it up. Such as hibernation files, system page files are all at this level of gigabytes, there are system restore files, virtual memory, temporary extract files when installing the software, system updates, game update patch download storage location, all in the C drive. Do not look at the Windows just installed more than a dozen GB, with the use of occasional clean up, easily walk away 50GB ~ ​​60GB, if you lose the various software by default in the C drive, that 100GB can not stop.

Therefore, if it is not always thinking of expanding the capacity of the C drive, the best way is to properly adjust the settings under Windows to ensure the use of C disk space. First of all, Xiao Bian suggests that you enable Windows 10's memory-aware function (Settings - System - Storage) to allow Windows to automatically clean up unused temporary files.

After that, it is the regular cleaning of the C drive's junk files, which can free up GB space (especially after Windows updates).

If you are using a desktop computer, hibernation files and page files are not recommended to directly kill, reducing the volume they generate.

As for the system restore function and virtual memory, set it as appropriate according to the capacity of the C drive.

This set down, how much can make the C drive space is not so stretched. However, in order to place the installation software will only be mad when the "Next" partner and Office, etc. will only be installed in the C drive software, the registry Xiaobian also prepared a big move.

Enter the regedit Win+R key combination to enter the registry editor, navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

Well, everyone's eyes are on the right. Are all the key names named after the system folders that we are familiar with?

Including the temporary folder, the default installation path, temporary decompression file storage location, as long as the double-click, change the default path from C: \ to any other partition with a larger capacity (preferably D drive, if you choose E, F It does not matter), so that the C drive will always maintain a healthy capacity.

This part of the setting is best when you just installed Windows operation, and now the change is not a big problem, and may occasionally encounter problems such as software can not start (because the previous default cache, temporary file location on the C drive, will not be able to find the file, etc. Question), reload it on OK!

This is also afraid of the allocation of space to the C drive less? joke! 40GB C disk properly used!