Simple trick frees up 20GB of disk space in Windows 10

Windows 10 users can easily free up 20GB of disk space in Windows 10 after they've installed the recent November update of the OS. The Disk Cleanup feature of Microsoft's latest operating system is able to safely remove the old installation files as Lifehacker reports.

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We can confirm it works and it's easy to do. Go to your C: drive in Explorer, right click on properties. Then go to Disk Cleanup and then, important, click "Cleanup system files". You will be presented with the screen above and by adding a checkmark to "Previous Windows Installation(s)" and clicking OK, you will get a lot of extra free space.

Especially SSD users will welcome this tip!

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