There are various files
and folders on your hard drive you even do not know they are there. Some files
are what you do not really need, such as the cache files, old files. Clear them
from your hard drive will help you to increase the memory and also improve your
computer’s performance. Before you clear them, you need to know what files you
can remove.
Temporary
folders
There are a large
amount of temporary files and folders in Windows created and used by system,
but they are not need any more. They will take up your memory, so you can
choose to remove them. Sometimes, you may found that there are nearly 10 GB tem
files there.
The
recycle bin
The recycle bin
provides us a place to hold the deleted files and enable us to restore the
accidentally deleted files. When you delete files, they are sent to the recycle
bin if you have not set them bypass the recycle bin. The files will keep here
until they are deleted by system or manual. How much files your recycle bin can
hold depends on the percentage you have set for each drive. If you forgot to
empty the recycle bin, it may accumulated several GB files so that will
influence your computer’s performance. If you do not want to send files to the
recycle bin, you can change in the properties to select Do n’t move files to
the recycle bin. Although you can not restore your deleted files in recycle bin
by this way, you still can recover the data with data recovery software as they
have not been erased.
The
old system files
If you have upgrade
your Windows system, the old system files are still kept here called
Windows.old. It will take up your memory but if you want to roll back
your system to its previous version, you will need these files. You can choose
the delete them by yourself. You should go to the File explorer and click
Cleanup system files.
Downloaded
program files
The download program
files are in the system drive, so they will affect your system;s performance.
You need to clear the unused program files and other download files in system
drive regularly.
Disk cleanup is a
better utility in windows to help you clear all the used files. It lists all
the files you may need to delete, and show their size. And by this way, you
will not delete the files you need by accident.
No matter which
location you lost your data, in recycle bin, system drive or other
drives,although they have been deleted from your system, you will can restore
them as long as they have not been overwritten.
The
Best Way to Recover Data from Hard Drive
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