I bought my PC laptop primarily as a gaming machine. It’s got a decent GPU and a solid CPU, but it does have a rather small SSD at 512GB. That means I have to swap out installed games as I want to play them, rather than keep them on my drive at all times. I went looking for a way to maximize my storage space, though, and came across one way I could save 7-10 GB of space, maybe enough for a smaller title. For folks with even smaller SSDs than mine, this could be a decent savings, as well. It’s called Reserved Storage, and it sets aside a portion of your drive (at least 7GB, no matter what your total disk space) for Windows updates, temp files, and system caches to ensure critical OS functions always have access to disk space. Here’s what it does and how to reclaim that storage with a quick PowerShell command. Related I learned what Windows “Quick Format” actually does (and it’s terrifying) Data privacy is important What Windows …