Windows 10 includes several tools to help you use less disk space. With one of these you can compress the files of the entire operating system as well as the preinstalled applications.
Compact OS lets you run your operating system from compressed files (similar to WIMBoot in Windows 8.1 Update 1), and helps you run preloaded Windows applications from compressed files.
This of course helps keep a small footprint on your hard drive.
Windows 10 can compress system files quite a bit. This will give you 1,5 GB more space on systems 32-bit and 2,6 GB on 64-bit Windows operating systems. Compact OS supports Windows 10 installations in UEFI as well as BIOS.
Below we will see how to use Compact OS to compress or unpack Windows 10 on your computer.
You should log in as an administrator to be able to use Compact OS.
Let's see how it works:
Open a line orders με δικαιώματα διαχειριστή. (στο πλαίσιο της search του start menu, πληκτρολογήστε cmd και όταν δείτε το μαύρο icon right click on it and open as administrator)
compact / compactos: query
Copy and paste the above command and press Enter to see if your Windows 10 is already compressed.
If it is not, to compress them, copy and paste the following command and press Enter
compact / compactos:always
It will take some time to complete the compression.
To unpack Windows 10
Copy and paste the following command at the command prompt and press Enter.
Again it will take some time for the decompression to complete.
compact / compact: never
That's it. And now, you can control the space occupied by Windows.