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How to free up space on a Windows PC

Clear out what you don’t need and reclaim your drive.

Games, photos, movies, and apps can take up significant chunks of room, and before you know it, that SSD is starting to run low on free space. You don’t have to accept the slow decline of available storage space on Windows, though — there’s plenty you can do about it, whether that’s using built-in tools provided by Microsoft or keeping your files and folders better organized. By default, the utility springs into action when it detects Windows is low on disk space and removes local copies of files that have been backed up to OneDrive once they’ve not been accessed for more than 30 days.

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