While we have enough space on the disk, we do not worry about what we are storing, but if we do not manage this job properly, we will find ourselves without disk space, which will inevitably lead to a slowdown of the computer.
In addition, nowadays the tendency is the use of SSD disks, of greater speed, but of smaller capacity, reason the space becomes a very precious commodity. So, free up disk space windows 10 without any credit.
The Windows space liberator
When we are short of space or periodically we want to free up occupied space that does not give us anything, the easiest way to do it is by using the space liberator provided by the Windows operating system itself.
To use this utility, we only have to position ourselves on the disk that we want to free space, go to its properties and click on the button. Free space that will appear in the properties window.
The utility first scans the disk in search of the candidate files to be deleted and shows us the space that could be recovered for us to decide what we want to erase.
In particular, we can delete all these file options:
Downloaded program files: ActiveX or Java components that are downloaded automatically when viewing certain pages.
Temporary Internet files: as their own name indicates, they are files that are temporarily stored locally to speed up the loading of the web page.
Recycle bin: checking this option will empty the recycling bin.
Installation log files: files created by Windows itself during the installation process.
Error memory dump files: when the operating system suffers a serious error that cannot be recovered, it dumps all the memory into a file. These files can help diagnose the cause of the error, but when they are no longer necessary they can be deleted safely.
Temporary files: files saved by other programs in the “Temp” folder of the system. As a general rule, all files in this folder can be deleted if there are no programs running.
Thumbnails: Preview files for images, video or documents that are displayed by the Windows file explorer. These thumbnails can be eliminated without any risk since they are generated automatically when necessary.
Error reporting files: files that are created to record errors that occur in the operating system.
Additionally, this tool in the Windows 10 version allows us to free system files that are for example system restore points. In this way we delete all the restore points except the last one, gaining disk space.
As we have said, this is the easiest way to release space quickly, but there are other aspects to keep in mind that will allow us to gain space.
Delete temporary files and downloads
Without the aforementioned tool helps in the release of files it is convenient to empty other folders that tend to accumulate useless files that only take up space.
One of these folders is temporary files that are stored in the following path C: \ Windows \ Temp
As a general rule, everything in this folder are temporary files that can be deleted without risk. Simply choose the files you want to delete and delete them.
Another of the folders that are filled and we do not usually delete, is the Downloads. Any file that we download from a web page for viewing, will be downloaded into this folder. If we are not periodically deleting its content, we will accumulate many MB of documents that we probably do not need.
Programs without use
It is not surprising that we have installed various programs on our equipment that we do not use. These programs occupy space that can be very precious, so periodically it would be advisable to review what we have installed and uninstall everything that we never use.
Other actions
Other actions that we can do but that do not apply to everyone are the following:
Delete user accounts that are not used: If your device has been used by different users with your own account, your profile is saved in it. This can take up a lot of space so it is convenient to eliminate those profiles.
Delete the folder Windows.old: if we have ever restored our operating system, this before restoring creates a Windows.old folder with the contents of previous installations. This can also be achieved from the Windows space freezer.
Compress units: It is not recommended, but if there is no other solution, compressing the disk drives will not allow free space, but will penalize the performance of the equipment.
Use cleaning tools: We can use additional tools to free space such as CCleaner, or tools to detect duplicate files that will allow us to eliminate duplicates of files.
After applying all these actions we must have been able to free up a lot of space, if not the last resort is either endow with an external hard drive or rent space in the cloud to upload our files such as Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive .
We hope that with everything discussed in today’s post you can recover space from your disk. Ideally, you should schedule this cleaning disk periodically, at least a couple of times a year and not wait until you are with the water around your neck.
