Steam is one of the most popular online gaming platforms where you can buy or play free games. However, some games might take up too much storage space and must be managed.
Steam provides us with an in-built storage management tool to manage the downloads. In this article, we’ll learn how to check Steam storage space on Windows 11 and provide some tips on managing Steam Library effectively by adding a new drive and making it the default download location for all your Steam downloads.
Here’s what we’ll cover in this article:
- How to open the Steam storage manager?
- How to add a drive to the Steam library?
- How to set a drive as the default download location in Steam?
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Open the Steam storage manager
Here’s how to open the Steam storage manager settings on your Windows 11 or any other operating system.
Step 1: Open the Steam client and then click on Steam at the top left corner of the screen. Next, click on Settings from the drop-down menu.
Step 2: Next, click on Storage.
Here, you will see all the games that you have downloaded, alongwith the space that they take.
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How to add a drive to the Steam library?
If one of your drives is full and you want to add another to the Steam library, you can easily do it from the Storage Manager.
Step 1: Open Steam Storage Manager and click on the top panel showcasing the current download location.
Step 2: Now, click on Add Drive.
Step 3: Select the drive location and then click on Add.
That’s it. Following these three steps, you can easily add a new drive to the Steam library.
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How to set a drive as the default download location in Steam?
Now that we have understood how to add a drive to the Steam Library let us learn how to set a default download location for your Steam downloads.
Step 1: First, select the drive that you want to make default by clicking on the drives panel at the top.
Step 2: After you have selected the drive, click on the three-dot button and then select Make Default.
We hope that this article has helped you in checking Steam storage space on Windows 11 and managing the Stream library effectively.
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