Though I’ve seen initial reports of Blue Screens of Death but the issue apparently affected only the initial Insider releases and was quickly fixed with the May patches. I don’t recommend using Windows 10 without one. If you don’t have an SSD drive, this is a good time to get one.
Windows 10 will not complain or demand reactivation and your life will be easier not worrying about drive space. Personally, I’ve found a better better for a desktop or laptop where you can easily access the hard drive is to purchase a replacement drive that’s larger and migrate your data from the existing drive. Type the following command and press Enter:ĭism /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup
When it is offered up in the “Best match” section, right-mouse-click and select “Run as administrator.” The only supported way to clean things up is to do the following: Click on the search box and type in cmd. I use Treesize free to review any drive hogs on my computer, though as a reminder, you can’t rip things out of the directory of WinSXS without severely damaging your computer and maybe making it non-bootable. Always start by reviewing whether you have enough drive space on your C: drive before beginning a major install. “Non-normal” Windows systems often trigger issues. (I have not seen issues when the bootloader is modified to offer an easy way to boot into a recovery process, so if you modified Windows to perform that function, you don’t need to worry.)
Typically, PCs that need special attention attention are dual-boot machines modified to install into either Windows or another platform. But so far, any trouble appears to be limited to computers I call “advanced” or “troublesome.”
And this latest update isn’t without issues -Microsoft has highlighted known problems that not only affect 21H1, but 20H, too: 5.1 Dolby Digital audio may contain a high-pitched noise or squeak in some apps when using specific audio devices and Windows settings. Last week I detailed easy ways to block Windows 10 21H1 from installing on your machine.