Every computer gradually gets slower over time. One reason behind this can be that your hard drive partitions become overpopulated with unused and junk files. You must delete these unused/junk files in order to speed up your Windows PC.
Going through your hard drive manually can be tedious. Although many third-party tools are available to help you optimize your computer and clean all the junk files from the hard disk drive, you can use Windows built-in Disk Cleanup tool.
With the help of the Disk Cleanup tool, you can remove junk files, temporary internet files, and all other unused files with just a few mouse clicks.
Here is how:
Going through your hard drive manually can be tedious. Although many third-party tools are available to help you optimize your computer and clean all the junk files from the hard disk drive, you can use Windows built-in Disk Cleanup tool.
With the help of the Disk Cleanup tool, you can remove junk files, temporary internet files, and all other unused files with just a few mouse clicks.
Here is how:
- ■Log on to your Windows PC with any administrator and go to the desktop screen.
■On the desktop window, press the Windows + R keys combination to open the Run box.
■In the Run box, type the CLEANMGR.EXE command, and hit OK.
■On the Disk Cleanup: Drive Selection box that opens up, click the Drives drop-down list to select the desired partition that you want to clean, and press OK.
■Once the Disk Cleanup box appears, wait until Windows calculates the available disk space.
■Once done, on the next interface, click to check the checkboxes representing the target files/containers that you want Windows to clean up, and hit OK.
■On the opened Disk Cleanup confirmation box, click Delete Files to continue cleaning.
■Once you have done everything, wait till the cleaning process completes successfully.
■Restart the computer, then start using Windows normally.
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