Cluster can be a big downer on productivity for your computer. Files get lost, program go unused and little by little various nooks and crannies in your computer are taken up by stray bits of data. It true whether you have a Gigantic Hard drive quickly filling up with application, movies and photos.
If you're hurting for Hard drive space, these tricks should help you free up space for important files and program by removing the unimportant junk cluttering up your Hard disk.
1. Run Disk Cleanup : Windows includes a built in tool that delete temporary files and other unimportant data. To access it, Right Click one of your Hard drive in the computer window and select properties. Click the Disk cleanup and select the types of files you want to delete and click ok. This includes temporary files, log files, files in your recycle bin and other unimportant files.
You can also clean up system files by click on More options button and use the Clean up button under System Restore and Shadow copies to delete system restore data.
2. Uninstall Space Hungry Application : Remove unnecessary files from your PC to free disk space. From the Programs and Features control panel, you can click the Size column to see just how much space each program installed on your computer is using. Either you can search for "Uninstall Programs" in the Start Menu or Control Panel > Uninstall a Program.
3. Analyze Disk Space : You can use a Hard disk analysis program to find out exactly which files or program using space on your Hard drive. After scanning your system, WinDirStat shows you exactly which folders, file types, and files are using the most space. Ensure you don’t delete any important system files – only delete personal data files.
If you see a program’s folder in the Program Files folder using a large amount of space, you can uninstall that program – WinDirStat can tell you just how much space a program is using, even if the Programs and Features Control Panel doesn’t.
4. Clean Temporary Files : Windows’ Disk Cleanup tool is useful, but it doesn’t delete temporary files used by other programs. For example, it won’t clear Firefox or Chrome browser caches, which can use gigabytes of hard disk space.
CCleaner cleans junk files from a variety of third-party programs and also cleans up Windows files that Disk Cleanup won’t touch.
5. Find Duplicate files : You can use a duplicate-file-finder application to scan your hard drive for duplicate files, which are unnecessary and can be deleted. Try dupeGuru – the free version can only delete or move up to ten files at once, but it will show you what duplicate files are cluttering up your hard drive.
6. Nuclear Options : These tricks will definitely save some space, but they’ll disable important Windows features. We don’t recommend using any of them, but if you desperately need disk space, they can help:
If you're hurting for Hard drive space, these tricks should help you free up space for important files and program by removing the unimportant junk cluttering up your Hard disk.
1. Run Disk Cleanup : Windows includes a built in tool that delete temporary files and other unimportant data. To access it, Right Click one of your Hard drive in the computer window and select properties. Click the Disk cleanup and select the types of files you want to delete and click ok. This includes temporary files, log files, files in your recycle bin and other unimportant files.
You can also clean up system files by click on More options button and use the Clean up button under System Restore and Shadow copies to delete system restore data.
2. Uninstall Space Hungry Application : Remove unnecessary files from your PC to free disk space. From the Programs and Features control panel, you can click the Size column to see just how much space each program installed on your computer is using. Either you can search for "Uninstall Programs" in the Start Menu or Control Panel > Uninstall a Program.
3. Analyze Disk Space : You can use a Hard disk analysis program to find out exactly which files or program using space on your Hard drive. After scanning your system, WinDirStat shows you exactly which folders, file types, and files are using the most space. Ensure you don’t delete any important system files – only delete personal data files.
If you see a program’s folder in the Program Files folder using a large amount of space, you can uninstall that program – WinDirStat can tell you just how much space a program is using, even if the Programs and Features Control Panel doesn’t.
4. Clean Temporary Files : Windows’ Disk Cleanup tool is useful, but it doesn’t delete temporary files used by other programs. For example, it won’t clear Firefox or Chrome browser caches, which can use gigabytes of hard disk space.
CCleaner cleans junk files from a variety of third-party programs and also cleans up Windows files that Disk Cleanup won’t touch.
5. Find Duplicate files : You can use a duplicate-file-finder application to scan your hard drive for duplicate files, which are unnecessary and can be deleted. Try dupeGuru – the free version can only delete or move up to ten files at once, but it will show you what duplicate files are cluttering up your hard drive.
6. Nuclear Options : These tricks will definitely save some space, but they’ll disable important Windows features. We don’t recommend using any of them, but if you desperately need disk space, they can help:
- Disable Hibernation – When you hibernate your system, it saves the contents of its RAM to your hard drive. This allows it to save its system state without any power usage – the next time you boot your computer, you’ll be back where you left of. Windows saves the contents of your RAM in the C:\hiberfil.sys file. To save hard drive space, you can disable hibernate entirely, which removes the file.
- Disable System Restore – If reducing the amount of space System Restore uses isn’t good enough for you, you can disable System Restore entirely. You’ll be out-of-luck if you need to use System Restore to restore your system to an earlier state, so be warned.
