

In addition, if that is the case, I urge you to consider the following steps and double-verify that you’ve got a working backup of your system. If you don’t know how to do that, perhaps it’s best you don’t mess with your system.

Note: If you want to view the contents of this folder yourself, you will need to take ownership of the folder. You can see the folder’s content in the following picture.

Most of them are located in a hidden folder called C:\Program Files\WindowsApps. Having said that, let’s see what we can do to save you some disk space by removing the built-in modern apps from your system.įirst, let’s see where the apps are installed. In addition, I cannot over stress this: Make sure you have a working backup of your system. Please carefully test this procedure before applying it to a production machine. At the same time, it may cause your system to lack some of the built-in functionality. Warning: The procedure outlined below will save you a few hundreds of megabytes on the system’s disk. Although this helps clear up space to some degree, a lot of disk space is still used by the operating system itself, and much of that space is taken by the built-in modern apps that are bundled with the operating system. I recently wrote about a tip for cleaning up of the space used by the Windows 10 upgrade program.
