Welcome to PC Wiz Kid’s Tech Talk, today I wanted to show you how to free up disk space windows if you’re waiting a load and you need to make up some space here’s how. First thing let’s decrease your disk usage, the recycle bit is a common place that people use up a lot of space on there machine. So right click on the recycle bin going to properties and then you will see that there is an option for setting up one option here for all drives. And I have it set to like 102% of my total disk spaces if you have the percentage setting really high then you’re using up a lot of space unnecessarily right? So lower that down and to let me check and see will how much is 1% of your hard drive you can always go through the local disk C and then check and see okay of my C drive. I’m going to be using 224 Meg just for the recycle bin right so go ahead and o that tweak.
There is another thing that you need to do and it’s the system restore okay. And the system restore if you are using it you can decrease the space as well so right click on my computer, go down to properties and then click on the system we store tab. If you using it like I am right now I don’t have it turn off, then of course going to the settings here on the right and adjust the slide so you don’t need it to be 2.6 gigs there just low it all the way down to what you need it and if you just a few restores or checkpoints that a few hundred meg or gig is more than enough and then press okay. Obviously if you are not using it at all turn it off. Same thing with the hibernate, if you are not using it turn it off, right you will save a lot of gigs. To disable the hibernate right click on your background and then go to the properties and then click on the screen saver tab at the top, the screen saver has a power option. Then click on the power option at the top, click on hibernate and if you have enabled jus uncheck it if you are not using it. You will see that you will save 2 gigs right there by not using the hibernate okay. So uncheck it if you’re not using it and of course if you have it check off or you’ve just still use that 2 gigs just keep that in mind okay.
If you’re using Windows Vista you can open up a command prompt and type powercfg -H off and hit the enter and that will do the same thing it’s like going in through the menus. The other areas of web browser cache, okay if you are using internet explorer here or firefox in your browser there is always an internet options appropriate to the sections. So click on tools and with the next explorer and going to internet options to access the temporary file settings. In there you will be able to adjust again the slider bar for that one and decrease it right now if it’s being use that a lot will decrease it down to a couple of 100 Meg, you don’t need 1 gig of temporary space set aside for this browser so it’s over kill. So just that decrease it down the couple hundred Meg and we will saves space right there okay. And I’m sure other browsers have similar options as well.
Another area that you can delete windows files that are temporary is the following, C:\Windows\system32\dllcache okay I’ve been there deleting files right now and as you can see you can see of a couple of hundred meg no problem by just going in there and deleting those temporary cache files okay. Another area is C:\Temp okay and in there, there is a whole bunch of files in there that you can delete no problem obviously similar files are being use at the time that you using the computers so you can delete those and then allow you too. But look for dates of files that are really old in there that have never been cleaned up and just delete them item about it that not been used if they really old you can delete them without any hassle if the new files, meaning the that the date of those files are today’s date then obviously you don’t want to delete those because they are being used by the machine. So you highlight them, press delete and let them delete them all okay and you just save just of depends anywhere for the couple of meg to many a gig and you don’t how much the temp files you having there.
Another area is the documents and settings, the administrator local settings temp folder okay so, that’s the long one but in there is also a lot of temporary files okay. And you can go in there also and delete everything that you can that’s old. Okay so just go by the date of the files and just delete them, okay you can highlight the whole chunk, you can assort it and explore and not unjust that delete them according with out where okay. And not to see again any where from a couple hundred Meg to maybe a couple of gig so at the end of the day, by doing all of these things you could easily free up maybe 10 gigs of space just like that. The last thing that you can do is use the clean manager program that comes with windows, so click on start then run and type cleanmgr that’s one word cleanmgr that to launch the windows cleaner and basically will be able to select your drive and then let it scan it and prepare to collect files. And what it’s doing is it’s scanning and looking for temporary files as well and other things like that so it does a lot of similar removal of junk that’s on your machine and as you can see here it sees that it found 300 megs worth of stuffs to delete. And you can go ahead and do that using the cleaner but the cleaner doesn’t really free up all of the areas of windows. So that’s why this is the last result that you do it the very end so, we go a whole bunch of different things that you can do to clean up your PC for Windows. Hope you can free up some space and you enjoy the video, thank you for watching.
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