In the above scenario, you can see that by clearing this alone we will free up 12GB of storage space. Scroll down towards the bottom of the Disk Clean-up GUI and ensure you select Previous Windows installations(s):
Search for “Disk Clean-up” and run the application as administrator. To remove these files using disk clean-up simply perform the following steps: The simplest way to remove this unnecessary data is via a useful built-in Windows tool called Disk Clean-up which has a very user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI). The files we need to take you back to a previous version of Windows were removed from this PC.” If you try to restore/rollback after deleting these directories, you will receive an error message saying “We’re sorry, but you can’t go back. We highly suggest however that you only delete these directories (along with the Windows.old folder) once you’re sure that your Windows 10 installation is working fine and you do not plan to restore or rollback your computer. Thankfully, both these folders are just temporary folders and can be safely removed at any time. The $Windows.~WD directory alone was over 10GB: These are hidden folders which are created by Windows during the Windows 10 upgrade process and can take up quite a chunk of valuable storage space, especially if you’re using an SSD which typically has significantly less overall storage space than a traditional mechanical drive this particular machine had a 120GB SSD, so these two directories alone accounted for over 13% of the total storage capacity, which is massive.
$Windows.~BT (ours was approx 10.3GB in size).If you’ve either upgraded to Windows 10 from a previous Windows 7/8 installation, or simply started the Windows 10 upgrade process you may noticed two sizeable folders on the root of your system drive named:
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