Improve Your PC Speed - Step 4
Run The Hard Drive Cleanup Utility
The hard drive cleanup utility is another one of these tools that takes a while to run. In general, it checks to make sure that your hard drive is healthy and repairs any bad blocks that it find. It also attempts to remove any unneeded files from your drive - old drivers, temporary Internet files, and files that you haven’t used in a while. It is recommended that you run this tool every so often to help keep your hard drive in the best shape possible.
- Click Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, then Disk Cleanup.
- You will be asked to select which drive you want to cleanup, choose your primary drive and click OK.
- You will now see a progress bar on your screen - the tool is trying to determine how much space it can free from your hard drive. After a few minutes it will offer you a list of types of files that you will be able to remove from your computer, and how much space can be gained by removing them.
- Select which files you would like to remove - but be careful, you may actually need something. Your best bets are usually anything that has the words “Temporary Files” in it.
- When you are ready to delete the selected files, click ‘OK’
- Once again, walk away and let the system run. With this tool, it is recommended that you let it run overnight.
This tool is most useful for removing the files that you would generally be unable to find.
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