How to free up space on laptop

Everyone has experienced at least once that their programs on the laptop freeze, or some issues related to the performance. This is a sign that your device’s hard drive needs cleaning. The device itself can warn you about its clogged drive by showing you a message on the screen.

Have you been asking yourself how to free up space on a laptop? If you have, and you are not familiar with how to do it, here are some tips we gathered for you. Keep reading the following.

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Solutions

If you have never cleaned up your hard drive, you can start now. Here are a couple of solutions that we will mention and explain. So, just follow these steps and free up your device’s space, so you can keep using your laptop without freezing the programs or experiencing slow running.

To clean up space on your laptop, you can remove the apps or programs that you don’t use anymore, or just run the tool to clean the disk. You should also reorganize and clean your desktop, remove extremely large files, or manage the downloaded files.

Before you start cleaning your hard drive, you should know that regular cleaning is important, so your device could work properly. If you clean your hard drive rarely and use the laptop every day, then you can expect cleaning to take a lot of time. But, if you do it more often, then the time needed to free up space on your device will be much shorter than the first time. Maintenance of space is important, so make sure to keep it in regular order.

Deinstall the apps you don’t use

To free up space on your laptop, you should look for the apps and programs that you have on the device but don’t use it anymore. So, open the Start menu and head to the Apps. Find the option Apps and Features and click on it.

You will see the list of all apps and you may want to choose to sort them by size. This way you will see which apps are taking the most of the space. To remove those, you want to get rid of, select it, and then click the Uninstall button.

Why desktop should be cleaned?

For those who didn’t know, having too many icons on your desktop can cause your laptop to run slower than it should. This is because the device needs more of operating memory to have these icons shown all the time. So, if you consider reorganizing your desktop, and sorting files in folders, this could result in your laptop to stop being slow. Also, think about deleting all of the files that you don’t need and don’t use anymore.

Using tools to clean the disk

Windows has a super good tool that comes in the package. Disk Cleanup Tool is a great solution to remove all of the files that the operating system doesn’t need for its work. To run this tool, go to the This PC icon and click on the main hard drive, usually the Local Disk C. there, on the tool line, under the section Drive tools, you will notice the option Clean-up. Click on it and let your laptop to get its space cleaned. This can take a while, especially if you are doing it for the first time.

Extremely large files

Some files are taking too much space and you simply cannot do anything about it. But, what you can do is check which is those files, and if you don’t need them you can be free to remove them.

Head to the File Explorer and them to This PC icon. In the Search, bar type the Size word. When the research is done, you will be able to see the files from different categories in size, from the empty ones to ones called gigantic. Now, check all of the files, especially the largest ones and if you are sure that you don’t need them, send them to the trash can.

You should also check the downloaded files because most of the people don’t remove downloaded photos, videos or other files, because they forget about them. Check the Downloads folder in the File Explorer and remove unnecessary content. Make sure to empty the Recycle Bin after sending files there, so you can be sure that you got rid of the trash once for all.

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