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

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. :)

3 thoughts on “How to use Windows 7 Disk Cleanup to free up disk space

  1. 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.

  2. Pingback: Clean Windows 8 to Speed Up Computer | VISHY Media on technologies and gadgets

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