This morning I'm in a hurry because I have to go to work but I don't want to miss the opportunity to talk about today's problem, luckily before doing so I managed to at least brush my hair this time which all in all isn't bad because the last time I 'I did it. I was really unpresentable and even turned on the lights in the back but what did I urgently need to talk to you about? Today it's easy to say.
Several members of the community have reported to me that after installing Windows 11 24 hours a day a somewhat strange phenomenon occurs that is, 8 GB of space on our hard disk. It would seem that it would never be lost, but it is not enough. They have also reported problems relating to Microsoft Outlook.
It may be true, it may not be true, let's go and see it together but above all, of course, we will also look for the relevant solutions and therefore if you listen Hello Let's get started but the real question is will we be able to stop talking about Windows 1124 H2 by finally giving this update which in any case I advise you to do as an established thing Well I don't know yet We will see the developments in the next few days but in the meantime before starting let's all dedicate ourselves together with our apotropaic ritual which, as you well know, serves to appease the deities of the tube who have been a little hostile towards us lately disclaimer the contents of this video are exposed for purely informative and educational purposes let's move on let's move on But yes come on let's move on it's better and for the occasion I am on this machine here which is a machine that you should already know, it is in fact the one in which in this video here which I leave you linked at the top We have made the transition from Windows 11 23 H2 to the new 24 H2 version although since it is an unsupported machine as I was saying a little while ago you should absolutely carry out this update Also because we have seen that it speeds up the computer quite a bit. Unfortunately, however, apparently it brings with it some small defects which are also quite normal for a new B of Windows. In this case, the little defect that interests us can be found by opening File Explorer, taking us to this PC by opening our local disk drive and we will see that there will be this folder here called windows.
old. But what is special about this folder, I will explain to you immediately when you perform a transition to a new Build Or you change your operating system So for example if you switch from Build 23 H2 to 24 H2 or if you switch as we did on this machine from Windows 10 to Windows 11 24 H2 a folder called Windows Old is created has always been done in the history of Windows during this type of transition what does it do? This folder essentially contains all the files that are used to restore the old operating system in case of emergency.
However, it is a rather large folder in terms of size because if we go looking at its properties we realize that its dimensions are actually decidedly considerable. In this case, in fact, they reach around 22. 1 GB 22.
1 GB which can also be easily saved when we are convinced that we want to keep the new version that we have installed and we no longer have any interest in returning to the old one and the problem lies in the fact that apparently a portion of this folder would be Indelible leaving 8. 63 GB occupied on our machines but in reality things as we will see are not exactly so if in fact we open the Start button we go to the settings on the left side we locate the system item and we open it and then choose storage we will see that we will have the possibility in this line here to clean up our temporary files let's expand this item and see that a cleaning analysis of Windows update starts As you can see the selected capacity of things that we can clean already amounts to 16 GB so a good result But if we also select the previous Windows installations the removable capacity would amount to even 31. 5 GB at this point all we need to do is check that we have selected everything, I leave my downloads simply because I am fond of them but I could easily highlight them too and carry out a cleaning of a further 3 MB of little stuff once all of these have been selected folders inside we just need to click on Remove files and we are warned that we are about to delete our beloved downloads too, it doesn't matter.
There was little stuff, we click on the continue button and wait a little while for this operation to be carried out in my case a nice mozzarella Actually not even all of it but here we are faced with the stone of the scandal 8. 63 GB of our sacred storage space that have not been freed anathema on you Microsoft But will things really be like this let's lower for a moment our screen and let's go back to the previous folder as you can see the c of windows. old has actually completely disappeared But then where are these 8.
63 gigabytes of space that would have remained on our PC let's go and read what it is Microsoft informs us that a copy of all the updates installed by Windows update is kept even after the installation of new versions of these updates and we already knew this, we have just talked about it regarding the windows. old folder the Windows update cleaning function eliminates or compresses the previous versions of updates that are no longer necessary in order to free up disk space it may be necessary to restart the computer but this In our case it does not concern us what concerns us instead is the second possible single folder inside which these 8 could be crammed, 63 GB of data and This folder is inside disk C inside the Windows folder the folder called software Distribution. However, if we open this folder and look at its entire contents we will realize that this amounts to only 16, 9 MB I would also like to point out that I also display hidden files on my system and therefore consequently there are no files that are not counted so how do you explain these eight, 63 GB of residual data if I have to make a bet and if you want to know the in my opinion these 8.
63 GB of data do not actually exist they have already been deleted during the operation that he However he tries to do twice not physically finding these 8. 63 GB gives us this error as if these had not been deleted But how can I say something like this Well we can do a little litmus test let's go and see this as you can see this is a completely virgin system on which we have just carried out the cleaning In short there is absolutely nothing installed if we go and look at the occupied space on this system we notice that there are 56. 2 GB available out of 79.
2 and therefore if mathematics is not an opinion Windows only occupies 23 GB of space let's see what happens on a system on which Windows 11 24 H2 is installed natively the situation will be different will there be these 8 GB less or not What do you say And here we are on a machine on which Windows 1124 H2 has instead been installed natively or simply by doing a clean installation and formatting the system always with the same ISO there is some difference on this one Let's see the presence of CoPilot and Outlook which we will talk about very briefly in a moment because I have to go to work but we can see what interests us immediately let's open it. So also in this case the file explorer we go to this PC and we see that in this case on the C drive there are 56. 2 GB free against 78.
8 if also in this case we go to make the difference we realize that there are 22. 6 GB of weight of the operating system against 23 GB of the updated one instead of installing from scratch so consequently we can say with relative certainty that these 8.
