Free up Hard Disk Space in
Windows 8
Disk Cleanup
Disk cleanup will reduce the number of
unnecessary files on your computer to free up disk space and help your computer
run faster. Disk Cleanup allows you to remove temporary files, empty the
recycle bin and remove a large variety of system files and logs. Therefore,
running this utility from time to time is advisable for your computer.
Canned Statement: Let me go
ahead and run disk cleanup to free up disk space in the computer.
Start Disk cleanup utility.
o Press Window + R,
type cleanmgr in the Run dialog box and press Enter.
o Or search cleanmgr in the Metro Apps serch window.
For a few seconds or minutes, depending on the
size of your drive and its contents, the utility will compute the amount of
space that Disk Cleanup will be able to safely free up. An image like the one
below will appear during this process.
When done analyzing, Disk Cleanup shows the total
amount of space that can be cleaned. Scroll to the 'Files to delete' list
to see different categories of files that can be deleted, like 'Downloaded
Program
Files', 'Recycle bin', 'System error' files, 'Temporary files' and others. For example, in the image below we can
free upto 8.71GB of files on drive 'C:', of which 8.05GB are 'Temporary
files'.
Select one of the categories to see its
description. For some of the categories, Disk Cleanup allows you to see the
files that can be deleted. Click the 'View files' button if it appears.
Decide if you want to delete the files from one
or more categories by selecting the appropriate check boxes. Press OK
when you have finished.
A confirmation box like the one below will
appear. Press 'Delete files'.
You will see the progress of the Disk Cleanup on
a window similar to the one below.
After the cleanup, the program will close itself.
To run the process for another drive, start it again, select the drive and run
the process again.
Extra Cleaning Options
Canned Statement: Let me go
ahead and run extra disk cleanup options to free up more disk space.
Apart from files, Disk Cleanup can free more disk
space by allowing you to remove programs that you don't use and all but the
most recent restore point. To do all these, click on the 'More Options' tab.
NOTE: You must be logged in as Administrator to see this tab.
If you don't see the More Options tab, you
will have the button 'Clean up system files' in the Description zone.
You will have to enter the administrator password.
To remove unused programs, click on the 'Clean
up...' button under 'Programs and Features'. This will open the
Programs and Features Control Panel that allows you to see the list of all the
programs installed on your computer and uninstall them.
Disk Cleanup allows you to remove all restore
points except the most recent one. Under 'System Restore and Shadow
Copies', click on the 'Clean up...' button.
A confirmation box for system restore points
deletion will come up. Press the Delete button to remove the restore
points.
Disk cleanup process will run, after the cleanup,
the program will close itself.
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