How to free up the C drive Drive recovery software

Sometimes, the system will prompts that your C drive is out of space, and your computer runs very slow and cannot work normally with the filled space. In that case, you should free up your C drive.

How to free up the partition C?

Generally, we need to close some of the running programs first. If this does not improve the performance obviously, you should make a deep clean for this partition. You can use the system built-in tool named Disk Cleanup to free up the disk C.

You have two ways to access to this tool:

The first way to access the Disk Cleanup

First, you can click start menu and input the Disk Cleanup in the research box. Click to open it. In the pops up window, you should choose the partition C from the drop-down menu, and click OK. It need several minutes to accumulate the space can be freed up from partition C.

In the opened window “Disk Cleanup for (C) : “, it has worked out the space you can free up. In the part of Files to delete, you will see some files. You can check or uncheck the box to determine to delete them or not. Below that part, it shows the free space you gain after you deleting the checked files. The Description explains what you are files you checked. You should pay more attention to delete the files in partition C.

It is suggested that you should only delete these files: Download Program Files, Temporary Internet Files, Recycle Bin, Temporary Files.

Then click OK. A dialog box then appears :Are you sure you want to permanently delete these files?

Click Delete Files. Then the files will be deleted and this tool will be close automatically.

The second way to access Disk cleanup

Open My Computer, and locate the partition C and then right-click it to choose the properties. You will see a Disk Cleanup button in the Properties window, click it to open the Disk Cleanup tool.

In the opened up Disk Cleanup Window, the system files are not listed in the Files to delete part, you should click the button of Clean up system files if you want to clean up system files.

In the opened window, Click More option, there are two options: Programs and Features: you can delete the programs you do not need; System Restore and Shadow Copies: remove all but the most recent restore point.

In addition to the system built-in Disk Cleanup tools, there are also many other ways which can help you to free up your hard drive partitions.

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