Buying a new PC in 2019? You may have a bit less disk space than you were expecting
Microsoft has announced that it is formalising the arrangement whereby Windows 10 inexplicably swipes a chunk of disk space for its own purposes in the form of Reserved Storage.
The theory goes like this – temporary files get generated all the time in Windows, either by the OS or apps running on the thing. As a user’s disk fills up, things start getting sticky as space for this flighty data becomes short and reliability suffers.
Microsoft has tried a few ways over the years to help users manage disk space – Windows will start to whinge as disks reach capacity and built-in tools exist to clear unwanted files. The latest, Storage Sense, will quietly “dehydrate” OneDrive files to free up space.
