While you may reclaim some space by doing away with restore points, you are also effectively doing away with one of the operating system’s safety nets. Note: Deleting system restore points makes it much harder to fix problems later. If you dig a bit deeper into its menus, however, you can also purge shadow copies of system files, error dumps, and old system restore points that can consume a ton of space. (see screenshot below) 3 In the ClickPad Settings tab (name may vary), click/tap on the ClickPad Settings. 2 Click/tap on Touchpad on the left side, and click/tap on the Additional settings link under Related settings on the right side. 1 Open Settings, and click/tap on the Devices icon. Running Windows’ built-in Disk Cleanup utility with its default options deletes some of the temporary data, log files, and installers that Windows can build up over time, among many other things. Enable or Disable Touchpad Tapping in Touchpad Settings. It is also recommended that you back up that data to a thumb drive or other backup solution.īy performing a Disk Cleanup and purging old restore points and other system files, we were able to free up about 3GB of space on a relatively new, hardly touched Surface Pro 3. If you’ve got non-critical personal files taking up storage space on your tablet, move them to the cloud and reclaim that space. Microsoft’s own OneDrive service (formerly known as SkyDrive) is already integrated into Window 8.1.
Many cloud-based storage providers offer up multiple gigabytes of free storage space just by signing up for an account.
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