{"id":14182,"date":"2017-12-16T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T23:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=14182"},"modified":"2017-12-16T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T23:19:00","slug":"windows-10-storage-sense-cleans-up-automatically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/windows-10-storage-sense-cleans-up-automatically\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 Storage Sense Cleans Up Automatically"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Windows 10 Storage Sense Cleans Up Automatically<\/h1>\n<p>Windows 10 makes it easy and automatic to clear the Recycle Bin every 30 days. Plus Windows can also automatically clean up some other unnecessary temporary files too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Just enable it!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All you have to do to enable this feature is to go to Settings &gt; System and click on Storage:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2017\/storage-sense.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve Windows Tips &amp; Tricks\" width=\"452\" height=\"663\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the Storage section, look for \u201cStorage Sense\u201d. Turn the switch to \u201cOn\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2017\/storage-sense1.png\" width=\"396\" height=\"566\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next click on \u201cChange how we free up space\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Make sure that \u201cDelete temporary files that my apps aren\u2019t using\u201d and \u201cDelete files that have been in the recycle bin for over 30 days\u201d, are both turned on. I do not have my downloads folder set to be cleaned because I have a lot of files in there I need to test for future newsletters. If you don&#8217;t have anything in your download folder other than program installers you&#8217;ve already installed, you might want to check &#8220;Delete the files in the Downloads folder that haven&#8217;t changed in 30 days.&#8221; User discretion advised on that one.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2018\/storagespace.png\" width=\"567\" height=\"665\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you want to clean up your recycle bin and temporary files immediately, just click on the \u201cClean now\u201d button. When it\u2019s done cleaning, it will show you how much space was cleaned up. As you can see above, over 2.5 GB of drive space was freed up in the last 30 days.<\/p>\n<h2>2 Bonus Tips!<\/h2>\n<p>#1. If you accidentally delete a file, just press CTRL + Z to bring it back!<\/p>\n<p>#2. 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All you have to do to enable this feature is to go to Settings &gt; System and click on Storage:\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/windows-10-storage-sense-cleans-up-automatically\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2033,2032,2034,1684],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14183,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14182\/revisions\/14183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}