If you run out of storage on your Android, you have a memory card in your phone (in “internal memory” format), and you want to move apps from the internal memory to your card, but you can’t because the option does not show up, do the following.

• Search the web for how to get into developer mode on your phone or go to settings and find something like “build number” in your settings, under “About phone” (at the bottom) and click on it 7 times. If you can’t click on it, then you need to look around for something that you can click on. As soon as you start clicking, messages will pop up that show you that you are on the right path.
• Then search for “developer” if you don’t see “developer options” in your settings and go into “developer options”.
• Then gently scroll down until you find “force allow apps on external” and activate it.
• You will then have the option to move most third-party apps. They may be slightly slower if you run them on your memory card.
• (I then switch developer options off again to be on the safe side.)

(A tip from EasyTechs)

If your regular Windows 10 (and 11) disk cleanup process leaves you stranded, do the following.

STEP 1

Can’t delete temporary files in Windows 10

Press Windows key + R · Type %temp% and click OK · Press Ctrl + A and click Delete.

(A tip from Microsoft Community)

STEP 2

WARNING: If you do this… then everything – including for example bookmarks and passwords – will have disappeared from your browsers (except in Edge – where you may even find a bit of browser history from your other browsers – but a lot will also have vanished from Edge). Your browsers will be like blank slates. If, like me, you work in several browsers in several tabs, this is something that you will want to know in advance, especially if you may have busy week ahead. If you’re just a leisure browser, then it will hardly matter for a your browser use.

Some apps may even need to be reinstalled (if only because the icons have disappeared).

Are you sure that you want to go ahead?

Then repeat the above as for %temp% but now for %appdata%

You will get some messages popping up that tell you that a file is in use, but then you can just skip it. It may mean that you have a browser open. You also have to go into administrator at times.

This step certainly can clean up a lot space and in that case everything will be faster.

STEP 3

Then you look for a folder that is called “SoftwareDistribution” and in that folder go into the “download” folder. Supposedly, the files in there are all Windows Update folders that you no longer need. There wasn’t much in it in my case and most folders were empty.

(Tips from MDTechdata)

STEPS 4, 5 and 6

EasyTechs adds steps to search for just “temp” after Windows key + R. That did not result in anything for my computer.

He also recommends to search for “prefetch” and delete everything in the folder, but that would slow down opening of programs that you often use. I chose not to do that.

Searching for “storage” results in an option called “temporary files”. If you click on that, you may find “previous versions of Windows” that take up a lot of space.