Reserved Storage is a newly added feature available on Windows 10 1903 which reserves up to 7GB of your device’s storage for updates and temporary files. Reserved Storage was designed to help you avoid problems that may result from not having enough space when upgrading to a newer version of Windows.
You might, however, want to disable Reserved Storage if your device doesn’t have much space or if you simply don’t like the new feature. Here’s how you can do that.
- Press Win+R to run the Run box. Type regedit and click OK to open the Windows Registry.
- Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ReserveManager
- Double-lick the ShippedWithReserves key and change its value from 1 to 0.
- Click OK.
- Reboot your machine. Note that Reserved Storage won’t be disabled until the next upgrade.
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To re-enable Reserved Storage, go through steps 1-3 and change the value of the ShippedWithReserves key back from 0 to 1.
Here’s what to do if you want to check whether Reserved Storage has been disabled:
- Go to Settings > System > Storage, then click on the Show more categories link.
- Choose System & reserved.
- If Reserved Storage has been successfully disabled, the “Reserved Storage” section shown on the screenshot below should not be available in the settings menu.
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