
These temporary files won’t consume free user space when they are created and will be less likely to do so as temporary files increase in number, provided that the reserve isn’t full. When apps and system processes create temporary files, these files will automatically be placed into reserved storage. The rest of this blog post will share additional details on how reserved storage can help optimize your device. You don’t need to set anything up-this process will automatically run in the background. Reserved storage will be introduced automatically on devices that come with version 1903 pre-installed or those where 1903 was clean installed. Reserved storage, updates, apps, temporary files, and caches are less likely to take away from valuable free space and should continue to operate as expected. Windows and application scenarios may not work as expected if they need free space to function. Reserved storage, if a user almost fills up her or his storage, several Windows and application scenarios become unreliable. Our goal is to improve the day-to-day function of your PC by ensuring critical OS functions always have access to disk space. Through reserved storage, some disk space will be set aside to be used by updates, apps, temporary files, and system caches. Starting with the next major update we’re making a few changes to how Windows 10 manages disk space. Windows Insiders: To enable this new feature now, please see the last section "Testing out Storage Reserve" and complete the quest Reserving disk space to keep Windows 10 up to date First published on TECHNET on Jan 07, 2019
