Ed Bott - Windows 10 Support Secrets

87 CHAPTER 6 | Taking charge of hardware On a system like this one, with multiple drives, it’s possible to move the contents of a standard data folder to a different drive to use space more efficiently. You can choose to save new files in any of these well-known folders—Documents, Music, Photos, and so on—to a different drive. After you select a new location, you must click Apply to make the change, as shown in the following screenshot: Digging through the categories in that list of how your storage is being used can be an instructive exercise. For Documents, Music, Videos, and other content-based categories, clicking a category name opens a list of folders that shows how much space is being used by that file type in each location. Clicking any folder link from that list opens that location in File Explorer, giving you the opportunity to delete or move space-gobbling files and folders that are no longer needed. For some categories, however, the options are far more interesting. On my test PC, for example, clicking the Temporary Files category shows that it contains 12 GB of files that are, presumably, expendable. And instead of showing bare file listings, that page offers useful actions, as shown in Figure 6-11. Figure 6-11: When you open the Storage page in Settings and dig into a category like Temporary Files, the result includes options that make it easy to recover used space.