What could be considered as Microsoft‘s star product, the Windows 10 operating system, does not stop evolving to offer what we need. There are many hundreds of millions of computers based on it, hence its many updates and security patches.
Thus, what is intended are several objectives, most related to improving the day-to-day experience with our computers . It is intended to improve the functionality of the system as such, as well as its performance and interface appearance. However, in this case we are going to focus on a section of extreme importance such as storage space. This is a common good for all PCs that is becoming more and more valuable, something of which those of Redmond are fully aware.
Well, we tell you all this because at the moment some test versions of the system are receiving an interesting new function. The objective of it is none other than, on the one hand, to allow us to save disk space, while saving Internet bandwidth.
Save space on your drives in Windows 10
As most of you already know, when we install an application from the Microsoft Store on our Windows 10 computer , we either keep it or we delete it. If we really use it, we keep it on the hard drive, otherwise we uninstall it. Of course, when we remove it, we find a Windows message that warns us that all associated data will also be deleted.
Say that other operating systems, in similar cases, offer the ability to remove applications, but the associated documents and data remain. This allows users to quickly reinstall an application program when they need it again without having to reconfigure it.
At this point, we will tell you that now, to save storage and bandwidth on the Internet, Windows 10 has a new function that will archive applications that are used infrequently. At the moment this is a feature that is available on some Insider test installs. In fact, all this focuses on the possibility that the system itself eliminates little-used applications. Of course, it will keep the documents and data associated with it.
Advantages of the new Windows space saving feature
Therefore, when the time comes when we need that stored program again , they can be reinstalled almost immediately and without reconfiguring . There is no doubt of the enormous benefit this will bring to our teams. More if we take into account that there are many occasions in which we download apps from the Store , but that we leave there unused.
We must also know that the function as such is activated by default and works automatically in the background. But of course, users have the possibility of deactivating it, blocking the elimination of unused applications in Windows 10. Therefore, as reported by Redmond , to save space and bandwidth, applications that we do not use frequently will be archived automatically . Your files and data will be saved. In this way, the next time we use an archived application, the system connects to the Internet to restore the full version.
You have to know that some apps from the Microsoft Store can take up a lot of space on your computer. With this, what is achieved is to save space in a simple and automatic way without having to make backup copies . All of this is included in the Settings / System / Storage application.
