Creating space on a small SSD using Win 10 - How?

[NickStone]

My sister has a net book with Windows 10 which has a small 32GB SSD drive. Windows 10, in its f*%$ing wisdom has filled up the SSD with God only knows what, and as a result makes the whole system slow. Thank you Microsoft. Who "developed" Windows 10 to work on a net book with a very small SSD? And why are they still working in the industry?

Anyway, having not used Windows for years, I tried to remove most of the junk that Windows 10 has filled the SSD with, but the onoy thing I can get rid of are small temporary files which only frees up a very small percentage of stuff.

I have also disabled Windows 10 hybernation mode as I believe that when it hybernated it "dumped" a load of stuff from RAM on to the SSD, but I cannot find any directories or files relating to the dump so that I can remove it and free up the SSD.

I think the only way might be to return the net book to its original state, but is there a way of freeing up the SSD without doing that?

[claydoh]

I have a win10 tablet thingy I got with the idea of putting Android x86 on it, but the SoC just did not have simple, or even difficult, sound support so I decided to mess with Windows for a spell. 32 gb on Windows anything is not usable, for sure. I will dig up the links I used to shrink Windows down.

One definitely was to compress the OS, which did not seem to slow things down noticeably on the Atom processor the thing has.
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-r...tprint-your-pc


Disabling and deleting restore points can free a lot, but with some risks
Also, you can delete the recovery partition if it has one,
https://www.getfilecloud.com/blog/20.../#.W4hi7HX0mzw

If the system has an sdcard slot, or even a USB stick, you can have Windows use that for all user data and application installs
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3191...-try-this.html

Some of these have redundant info, I cannot find the one page that had all these in one spot.


ooh here's one more
https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/c...-to-save-space

I believe doing all of these took mine from around 21+gb down to approx 16, this was on a fresh install, and no restore points, but I disabled them anyway. None of these requires a new install at all, mine was just in that state when I got it.

Make a recovery stick, too, as this may have any extra software the thing came with, and drivers blah blah. Mine (an Acer) surprisingly came with Firefox.


Ridiculous, isn't it lol!

[jlittle]

Are you familiar with the KDE tool filelight? (It lets you see what is using filesystem space graphically, with a sunburst pie chart., zooming in on stuff easily.)

There's a free clone for windows that I found very simple to use, with no installation, called scanner. Standard reservations about downloading windows executables would apply.