![]() Probably from the same update, there is also an option to clean OneDrive temp files even though I disabled and do not use OneDrive. If you tick that to "free up" 11.7GB what you're actually doing is compressing the drive.I also noticed it and also in Settings > Storage > Free up space now.īoth are always unchecked and I have left them so but why are they there and how to get rid of it so it does not appear? To anyone who hasn't seen this annoying new "improvement" to W10 - here it is. Only of course it does no such thing, it compresses your drive instead. I'm a pretty experienced user and it caught me out in no time, I just assumed it was some crud or nonsense and opted to delete it. The option in a drive’s properties windowopen File Explorer or Windows Explorer, right-click a drive, and select Properties to find itallows you to apply NTFS compression to all the files on a drive and all the files you add to it in the future. This is an annoying issue with the Feb updates and is bemoaned elsewhere on the web. There are still two folders showing as compressed but searching through them reveals nothing. 1 So, I was wondering where 20Gigs of my SSD space gone to, and I found out when I checked on the disk cleanup app on windows 10 that 20. I ended up painstakingly uncompressing everything manually as simply unticking the compression option in the disk properties doesn't do this. It's a very poor idea, compression options shouldn't be included in disk cleanup, especially not in the "here is all the crap on your PC, tick what you want to get rid of" section. I think what he means is it shows up as used space under disk cleanup, leading one to believe that it's crap that should be deleted when in reality it's an option to compress the drive.
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