[dba-Tech] Win10 predownloaded setup almost doubled my system disk used space...

[Salakhetdinov Shamil]

 Hi Gustav --

Thank you for your comment.

>> However, as busy as you are now, I would postpone this for a while 
Yes, I wanted to postpone Win10 upgrade till I finish a couple of urgent projects, but this starting upgrade dialog has appeared here on my system several times already and I have been closing it and my system used disk space was as usual around 100GB but now when I see it grown to almost 200GB (within just a week) I'm getting concerned wasn't that high system disk memory consumption caused by Win10 upgrade waiting to go? If I'll stop it a few more times wouldn't my system hang because of my system disk getting out of space? - AFAIS from the disk clean-up analysis I can free up to 69.3GB now - wouldn't that clean-up remove some of Win10 upgrade temp files, which it will need to download again?

My system free disk space is ~43GB now - I will check tomorrow how much it will change.

Thank you.

-- Shamil


>Tuesday, September  8, 2015 1:47 PM UTC from Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk>:
>
>Hi Shamil
>
>As the first task, you could right-click your C drive, select Disk Clean Up, and - when ready - select Clean Up System Files.
>
>That will probably allow you to regain several GB of disk space.
>
>50 GB free space is enough for an update. The installer will tell you anyway before attempting the update.
>
>However, as busy as you are now, I would postpone this for a while - except, of course, if you are missing specific features of Windows 10. It's best to have some spare time to play and tweak after the update.
>
>/gustav
>
>
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>Fra: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Salakhetdinov Shamil
>Sendt: 8. september 2015 15:02
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>Emne: [dba-Tech] Win10 predownloaded setup almost doubled my system disk used space...
>
> Hi All --
>
>I'm not yet in Win10 camp, AFAIS I have got Win10 setup(?) "automagically" downloaded and it's ready to go with "Great, we'll get the upgrade started" dialog asking me to accept this setup process but I'm currently behind a mobile Internet connection so I'm keeping this Win10 setup start-up dialog idle. 
>When I have checked my system disk space I was surprised its used space almost doubled from usual 100+GB to 200GB, - is it a usual story for Win10 setup files volume? 
>And this my system disk is an SSD disk, which has only 256GB so I'm wondering will its currently free 50+GB volume be good enough for Win10 setup? Will here be all setup files purged after setup will complete? - I have a second 1TB HDD on the same system - is there any way to move Win10 setup there on my large HDD before I'll proceed with it?
>
>Thank you.
>
>-- 
>Салахетдинов Шамиль 
>
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