When your hard drive is full, Windows 10 will send you notification on your screen to free space. Now hard drives are available in multi-terabyte on your laptop and desktop and they can be used for storing tons of documents, files, images, videos, and games. Because of lack of storage, the operating system starts to work sluggishly. If your system is running low on space, then you need to free up space on your hard drive. This article will show you how you can use Windows 10 tools to free up space on a hard drive.
Clear Recycle Bin to Free Space on Windows 10
Your deleted files are not deleted immediately from your hard disk. Deleted files are moved to the Recycle Bin, and you can also recover them from the recycling bin. You can clear the recycle bin for freeing up space.
Here are the steps to follow:
Launch the “Start” button.
In the search field, you need to type “Recycle Bin. Then tap on the first result to appear on your screen.
Click on “Recycle Bin Tool”.
Click on “Empty Recycle Bin.”
Select “Yes” to complete your command.
Delete Junk Files through Storage Sense
Here are the steps to follow:
Launch the Settings application on your Windows 10 operating system.
Select “System.”
Select “Storage.”
Below the “Storage” option, you need to select the “Configure Storage Sense or run it now” button.
In the “Temporary Files” option, you need to check the “Delete temporary files that applications are not using” option.
Go to the “Recycle Bin” menu to select to delete or remove files that you don’t need.
Tap on the “Downloads” menu to indicate the way to clean up files that you have downloaded online.
In the “Locality available cloud content” option, you need to use the dropdown menu to indicate how long the “OneDrive” data will be synced to the device online.
In the “Free up space now” button, you need to check the “Delete the previous version of Windows” button.
Now tap on “clean now.
Remove Temporary files with Disk Cleanup
Here are the steps to follow:
Launch the “Start” button.
In the search field, “disk cleanup.” Select the first result to appear on your screen.
Here you need to go to the “Drives” menu and then click (C:) drive.
After that, click “OK”.
Click on “Cleanup system files.”
Here you need to use the drive menu and the click (C:) drive.
Tap on the “OK” button.
Now you need to check the item that you wish to remove.
Select the “OK” button.
Tap on the “Delete Files” option.
Delete System Restore
Here are the steps to follow:
Launch the “Start” button on your device.
In the search field, you need to type “Disk Cleanup.” Select the first result that appears on your screen.
You need to go to the “drives” menu and then click “(C:)” drive.
Click on “OK.”
Select the “Cleanup system files” option.
Select the “More option” button.
In the “System restore and shadow copies” tab, select the “Clean up” option.
Click on Delete.
Free up space by uninstalling non-essential apps and games
Here are the steps to follow:
Launch the Settings application on your Windows 10 system.
Tap on the application.
Select “application and features.
In the “sort by” option, you need to choose “Size” to identify the games and applications, taking more space rapidly.
Select the game or application that you wish to remove.
Tap on the “Uninstall” option.
Select the “Uninstall” option again.
Now you need to follow the on-screen instruction to complete the process.
After the above process, you can get free space on your hard disk; you can also repeat the same steps to remove or uninstall applications that are not in use, one by one.
Mia Watson is an avid technical blogger, a magazine contributor, a publisher of guides at Blogs Book, and a professional cyber security analyst. Through her writing, she aims to educate people about the dangers and threats lurking in the digital world.
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