

To do so, follow the instructions below to remove the backups you don’t need.

To conserve space, you should periodically check for and delete backup files. The Backup and Restore feature helps ensure you don’t lose important files, but it has a downside the backed-up files’ size keeps inflating.

Windows 10 has a built-in feature that automatically backs up files to a separate storage volume. Let’s start this space-saving tutorial and cover how to delete backup files in Windows 10. All examples demonstrated in this tutorial were done on Windows 10 Build 1909, but these tips should work on older builds also. If you’d like to follow along with each of these handy storage-saving tips, you’ll only need to meet one prerequisite Windows 10. In this article, you’re going to learn how to keep Windows clean by covering how to delete backup files in Windows 10, use the disk cleanup cmd, remove file history, unnecessary system restore points, delete the Windows.old folder, and the $Windows.~BT folder and more.īy following the steps in this tutorial, you could potentially clean up tens or even hundreds of gigabytes of valuable space on your Windows 10 machine! Before You Start Windows 10 is a phenomenal operating system (OS), but like any other OS, the more you install applications, change settings and browse the web, you can clutter it up.
