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after update too little space

Jack13
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Hello! I have a Z690-plus D4 motherboard. Yesterday, the drivers for it were updated to the latest. I didn't have much free space on my C drive, and now I only have 7GB left. How can I clean the system from backup copies and unnecessary files after the update? Which folders can I safely delete without causing harm?

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Of course. I started with this thing. But it didn't help. I wanted to know which folders are backed up during an update so I could clean them up myself. While I was waiting for advice, I gave up on everything and started browsing the C drive myself. I deleted several gigabytes of updates and driver backups for the Asus motherboard. At the same time, I cleaned up the Opera browser backups and Edge backups. In total, I deleted 13 GB. I checked the programs, and also checked the system using the sfc, chkdsk, dism commands, and everything works properly, correctly, there are no errors. I don't understand why companies that publish their software and send updates can't give users the option to not save backups, backup updates, and previous versions if they want. All this garbage clutters the system. And if necessary, it doesn't always help to return to a stable state. I suggest that large companies fire incompetent programmers working on quotas and leave effective employees so that they thoroughly check updates and test them before sending them to users for download, so that they do not have to deal with problems and hope for dead gigabytes of backups, and refuse the backup copies themselves or give users the opportunity to refuse them if they wish.

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Have you tried just running Disk Cleanup? 

Of course. I started with this thing. But it didn't help. I wanted to know which folders are backed up during an update so I could clean them up myself. While I was waiting for advice, I gave up on everything and started browsing the C drive myself. I deleted several gigabytes of updates and driver backups for the Asus motherboard. At the same time, I cleaned up the Opera browser backups and Edge backups. In total, I deleted 13 GB. I checked the programs, and also checked the system using the sfc, chkdsk, dism commands, and everything works properly, correctly, there are no errors. I don't understand why companies that publish their software and send updates can't give users the option to not save backups, backup updates, and previous versions if they want. All this garbage clutters the system. And if necessary, it doesn't always help to return to a stable state. I suggest that large companies fire incompetent programmers working on quotas and leave effective employees so that they thoroughly check updates and test them before sending them to users for download, so that they do not have to deal with problems and hope for dead gigabytes of backups, and refuse the backup copies themselves or give users the opportunity to refuse them if they wish.

I ask only because it has two "stages". When you click on "Clean up system files", it then allows for the clean-up of backup copies of Windows from the build upgrades, and you also get a 2nd tab, "More Options" which allows you to remove old restore points and backups.