Running Disk Cleanup
Follow the steps below...
Disk Cleanup is a utility that is included with Windows. It is designed to check a number of specific locations on your computer's hard drive for old, unnecessary, or temporary files that are not essential to the operation of your computer. Running Disk Cleanup removes these files and increases the amount of hard drive space available on your computer.
- Double-Click on the "Disk Cleanup" icon in your Maintenance
Folder as pictured below.
- If you have multiple harddrives, or have multiple partitions, Disk
Cleanup will ask you which harddrive you would like to clean up. For
most users, this won't popup, and if it does, most user want to
select the (C:) drive as that's the default location Windows installs
too, however cleaning all the drives probably wouldn't hurt either.
- Disk Cleanup will automatically take a look at the harddrive you
selected, or if you only have one, it'll just check the one to
estimate the amount of things that can be cleaned out.
- We want to clean up everything it will let us with the exception of
two things...the first is the MS Office Setup Files, so uncheck that
as seen below
- The second one to uncheck/deselect is "Compress old files"
as it can cause some stability and performance problems.
- Now we can click OK, and let the program do its work.
- Of course, we are sure we want to perform these actions.
- When Disk Cleanup's progress bar is finished you have successfully
run the program, and cleaned your harddrive.
