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‎02-23-2017 06:16 PM

HP Recommended
Product: Notebook Stream 11-r001na
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (32-bit)

Hi,

 

We bought my daughter a Stream Notebook for Christmas which has seemed extremely slow over the first couple of months. 

 

When I looked it over this evening I was surprised to find the hard drive almost entirely full (it's a 30GB drive and there's only about 2.2 GB free.  

 

I've used WinDirStat to map the hard disk usage and found a large space is taken up by $windows.~bt which appears to be some sort of install file for Windows. Some online articles seems to suggest it is temporary and should be automatically removed by Windows. There is also a lot of space taken by stream.x86.x-none.dat which I believe is a file for Office 365.

 

Are these files safe to delete? Other sites suggest so, but I wanted to check with HP that they're not serving some purpose I have yet to fathom!

 

Many thanks

 

JMC78

1 REPLY 1

‎02-23-2017 10:00 PM

HP Recommended
Hi,


You don't need both.

Do disk cleanup: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3012-disk-cleanup-open-use-windows-10-a.html


Regards

Visruth
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