how to delete windows 11 files on windows 10?

thank you for your quick answer. I tried the first method I don't think it worked.

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Thank you for your answer, deleting the temp files is what I do every time, sadly it doesn't work.

Also tried what you recommended and I'm not sure if anything got deleted, I'll see as I restart my computer.

In general about all you should do is go in Windows Settings > System > Storage > click on say Temporary files which is used for Windows updates > select and remove.

In Windows 10, I'm not sure now if the traditional way is still there but for many years it was File Explorer > go to the drives and right click c: drive > properties > I think it was tools tab > and clean up files from there and check system files then run that and it removes eg update files.

You really should leave trying to force remove anything else alone and it will do what it does on its own and it wants.

But, if you haven't then you can can adjust some stuff like Windows Update > Advanced Options > Delivery Optimization > and disable as this may hold onto updates longer.

Personally, after that, all I would suggest doing is to free up space by removing applications you installed or your own files. You can also move large files of your own to a USB stick or something.

You can of course make a tweak and disable hibernation and delete the file if you don't mind the difference. It would free a bunch of GB. You can probably just search how to do this.

However, you may really need to buy a new larger hard drive of at least double the space. Since, you've maximized your use of that hard drive and its now too limited for you.

Hi Ramsay,

I am Dave, I will help you with this.

1

Run Disk Cleanup twice as indicate here to safely delete all normal files and System files that can be deleted.

Open File Explorer

Click on your hard drive

On the Manage Tab - Disk Tools, click Cleanup

Let Disk Cleanup do its initial scan

Select Everything in the list and choose Delete

Start Disk Cleanup again

Let Disk Cleanup do its initial scan

Important - this time in the resulting dialog, click 'Cleanup System Files'

Let Disk Cleanup run another scan

Select Everything in the list and choose Delete

2

If that does not recover the 4GB of space:

Click the link below to download a small free utility named Treesize.

https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free

Very Important - to run TreeSize, you must right click its icon and choose 'Run as Administrator'.

Please provide a screenshot of your C drive in that TreeSize utility, so I can see your hard drive and work out where that space is being used and if there is an underlying problem.