Most of us use windows OS in our PC's and laptops and some time your system may face disk space problem which may result in the performance that can affect your work. Their are many ways to free-up disk space, some are most obvious and easy methods and some are not so obvious to recover disk space. In this article I want to share you both types of methods to free-up your disk space.
Most Easy Ways To Free-up Your Disk Space:
- Use CCleaner to clean your recycle bin, log files, temporary internet files and other scrap files quickly which don't show up in windows explorer. It also provides an option to clear your browser cookies and windows registry keys which wont save any disk space.
- Use Revo Uninstaller which will removes softwares, games and other unwanted stuff which is no longer used and cleans the disk space.
- To locate programs which taking up more disk space use WinDirStat and remove the program if don't use it anymore or move to other partition.
- Find duplicate files like songs, videos, podcasts, images, zip archieves in your hard disk and clean them by using Duplicate Cleaner.
- Check your downloads folder and clear waste and unwanted files, installers that downloaded from internet.
- For video podcasts viewers I advice to delete your old episodes from your hard disk.
- iPhone, iPad, iPod users should delete device backups to claim more space in your disk.
- Use windows component option which will helps you to remove unwanted components installed in windows.
- I sincerely advice to reserve very less space for restore points by deleting old restore points which can get more disk space.
- Get rid of shadow copies in your OS.
- Delete offline webpages which are stored to access when internet is not connected.
- If you'r outlook user and recently started with gmail, then back up all your pst files to gmail and then move them to another drive safely.