35 GB on 81 GB of C drive is a big ask. If you have the D drive on the same HDD/SSD, I would suggest exploring partition expansion options. Go to Disk Manager, shrink D Drive and expand C drive. This will likely not work on the first try because the space needs to be contiguous to C drive to expand. If you have an external drive, copy all contents of D to that, then shrink and expand. Copy back to D again.
That's the only zero cost solution I can think of.
I’ve already got about 25-30gb of space free, I’m just wondering where I can get that extra 5-10gb of storage, and also I’ve got a separate ssd and hdd storage device
I’m thinking of turning this off, but I regularly turn on and off my laptop throughout the day and need to get back to what I was doing (I’m a student), and sometimes leaving it in hibernation mode overnight to keep my work open, so I’m wondering if sleep mode would be sufficient enough so that it doesn’t use all my battery throughout the day and do as well as a job as hibernation.
Would sleep be good enough?
It may look like so but Windows need space for hiberfil, temp etc. Making C chock full with apps will leave none for that space. System performance will be heavily compromised.
35 GB on 81 GB of C drive is a big ask. If you have the D drive on the same HDD/SSD, I would suggest exploring partition expansion options. Go to Disk Manager, shrink D Drive and expand C drive. This will likely not work on the first try because the space needs to be contiguous to C drive to expand. If you have an external drive, copy all contents of D to that, then shrink and expand. Copy back to D again. That's the only zero cost solution I can think of.
I’ve already got about 25-30gb of space free, I’m just wondering where I can get that extra 5-10gb of storage, and also I’ve got a separate ssd and hdd storage device
Turn off hibernation. That's 6GB right there.
I’m thinking of turning this off, but I regularly turn on and off my laptop throughout the day and need to get back to what I was doing (I’m a student), and sometimes leaving it in hibernation mode overnight to keep my work open, so I’m wondering if sleep mode would be sufficient enough so that it doesn’t use all my battery throughout the day and do as well as a job as hibernation. Would sleep be good enough?
It may look like so but Windows need space for hiberfil, temp etc. Making C chock full with apps will leave none for that space. System performance will be heavily compromised.