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How to use Windows 7 Disk Cleanup to free up disk space

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Bored of the Low Disk Space warnings in Windows 7 ? Here is how you can use Windows 7 Disk Cleanup to free up some precious hard disk space.

Click on Start –> All Programs –> Accessories –> System Tools. Then click on Disk Cleanup. Alternatively you can open Start Menu and search for Disk Cleanup.

Windows 7 Disk Cleanup

Once open, select the drive you want to clean up. Mostly this will be the drive where you have Windows installed. Select C:\ drive.

Windows 7 Disk Cleanup

Let Disk Cleanup determine which files can be cleaned up.

Windows 7 Disk Cleanup

You will then see a dialog with the files that can be cleaned without any harm to the system. Select the files that you do not need and click OK.

Windows 7 Disk Cleanup

If you have admin access, you might want to clean up system files as well. Click on System Files in the above dialog. You will then see a More Options tab which you can use to remove old system restore points and shadow copies.

Windows 7 Disk Cleanup

Thats it, I freed close to 2GB of space using Disk Cleanup. :)

Written by Manas

January 23rd, 2009 at 10:56 pm

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  1. Expertester

    30 Jul 09 at 11:33 pm

    LoL….that’s funny.

    However, in recent version (RTM), they already remove the vista word… so it’s now look like “In some edition of windows, the disk might….”.

    Good catch btw.

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