HP Victus 16-r storage is full or nearly full

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Use the Temporary files section to remove them, and turn on Storage Sense. Look at the Apps list for large programs, and at Videos and Pictures for game recordings made by the Xbox Game Bar or the graphics software, which can be large; move them to an external drive. OneDrive can keep files offline, so free the space for folders you do not need locally. The Victus 16-r usually has a single M.2 slot filled and sometimes a second empty slot, and HP's support page for the model lists the supported drive types, so adding a second drive is a way to increase space.

A drive more than ninety percent full slows the whole laptop, so keep ten to twenty percent free. If System and reserved space looks large, check for restore points and the hibernation file. Back up before deleting or moving large folders. If the figures do not add up, a utility that shows the biggest files helps. Contact HP with the serial number for the supported upgrade options. The Victus 16-r is sold with a fast NVMe drive, and a game launcher can put a game on any drive it finds, so check each launcher's install location in its settings and move big titles to the drive with the most space.

Steam lets you add a second library folder, and Xbox and Epic have similar options. Shader caches from the graphics driver also grow, and the NVIDIA control panel has a setting to limit the shader cache size. Windows keeps old driver packages that you can remove with Disk Cleanup, under Clean up system files, where Device driver packages can hold a gigabyte or more. Before deleting game saves, check whether the launcher keeps them in the cloud.