The Task Manager has been around for a long time.
The app gives you access to many functions that can help with your efforts to monitor, control and optimise your operating system. It can also be used to diagnose system problems by showing abnormal use of resources. High usage of CPU, Memory, network or disk usage can indicate problems whose cause needs to be found and reduced. If you are tweaking your system settings you will want to see how effective they are by reviewing the relevant categories.
The Task Manager has been around for a long time.
The app gives you access to many functions that can help with your efforts to monitor, control and optimise your operating system. It can also be used to diagnose system problems by showing abnormal use of resources. High usage of CPU, Memory, network or disk usage can indicate problems whose cause needs to be found and reduced. If you are tweaking your system settings you will want to see how effective they are by reviewing the relevant categories.
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Windows 10 Storage Sense
Temporary and unwanted files take up space and as part of housekeeping practices these should be reviewed and removed. The settings allows for manual or automatic actions
Accessing the Storage Sense Settings
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If you have Cortana active: Hey Cortana Open Storage Sense Settings
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Enter Settings from Start or Ctrl I : System> Storage
Activating Storage Sense
By default Storage Sense is turned off.
Automating Storage Sense
Click on the Change how we free up space automatically to open a settings screen for the required parameters.
Manual freeing up Storage Sense
Click on the Free up space up now option on the Storage screen to open a screen that does an immediate scan for files that can be deleted (this will take a minute of two).
The results are displayed with tick boxes to select those items that you consider safe to delete.
Press the Remove files button
It is better to use these settings in conjunction with other cleaning options such as the inbuilt app for disk cleanup and third party apps such as CCleaner