Published On: Tue, Mar 6th, 2012

How to use disk clean up in windows 7

 If your facing a problem of less space on your system hard drive due to unnecessary accumulation of unused files and programs on your system. Windows 7 has included a feature of “Disk clean up” to resolve this issue. The Disk Clean up tool helps you to free up disk space, run your computer smoothly and make it efficient.

How Disk Clean Up works:

Windows 7 targets the most unused items or file on your system during this process like it looks for temporary internet files, it also targets recycle bin i.e. it would empty recycle bin as well, any of the downloaded file not in use and it may also look for any unused application or data related to unused application. All these ways combine to make or create a lot of free space in your hard disk.

 Without further ado let’s move on to the step by step approach to the windows 7 disk cleanup.The disk cleanup tool in windows 7 helps you to remove unnecessary file from your hard disk, this free up space helps your computer run faster. To clean up your disk follow the following steps:

 Step 1: Click the start button and search for disk cleanup and then click on the “Disk Cleanup: option, as the following screen shows:

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 Step 2: A Wizard window will appear which will ask you to select the drive which you want to cleanup and after that click the “OK” button:

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 Step 3: Next it will calculate how much space this disk cleanup will let you to save. By default it only deletes your own files but if you want to delete the system file then click on the button as the following screen shows. It will allow you to delete the other user’s files as well which use this computer. When you done with what you want to delete then click the “OK” button.

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 Step 4: Windows will prompt you that are you really want to delete the files then click on “delete Files” button. After that disk cleanup will do its work to clean the disk.

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