- You can clean up c drive in windows 10 by deleting temp files and by uninstalling unwanted software’s and by using prefetch method
- You can also optimize windows 10 by disk clean up and optimize hard drive and by cleaning and empty recycle bin
Cleaning up c drive in windows 10 is becomes crucial if you are facing any issues with the performance of your laptop and speed up windows 10 computer and cleaning up c drive or local files helps in performance boosts and makes your windows 10 computer/laptop faster as well and clean up files which are not in use or stored in temporary files in windows 10.
How to Cleanup C Drive in Windows 10
You can perform this cleaning up c drive in windows 10 with simple steps very effectively and as fast as possible without using any third party software programs to perform.
Step 1: Click on Start button and right click on run.
Step 2: type temp in run and press enter (You need administrative permissions to perform this action.
Step 3: Now you will see files and folders are all not needed and its created for temporary purpose. You can select all and delete.
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Cleanup C drive in windows 10 by temp
Step 1: Open Run and type %temp% now and enter
Step 2: Delete all the files from the %temp% folder also.
Step 3: Select all and Shift+ delete.
Pre fetch in Windows 10
Step 1: Open run and type prefetch and press enter.
Step 2: Select all and perform permanent delete by pressing shift + delete.
Recycle bin
All the deleted files will be stored in recycle bin without our notice and majority of people will be ignoring or unaware of this, when you delete a while by pressing delete button from keyboard or just by right clicking on delete button it will not be deleted permanently from your computer or laptop and recycle bin will be used by c drive space which will cause your system to perform slow.
Right click on recycle bin and click on empty recycle bin or just open recycle bin folder and select all and press shift+del files from recycle bin for completely cleaning up c drive in windows 10.
Uninstalling Unused Softwares
Uninstalling rarely used software or programs from your computer which is basically installed into C Drive by default. So by receiving those unwanted programs, you can get a lot more space on your c drive.
Step 1: Go to Control panel -> Add or Remove programs/software
Step 2: Uninstall unnecessary software which you are not using
Optimize Method
Step 1: Go to This Pc -> File explore and select C Drive
Step 2: Right click on C Drive and select properties
Step 3: Go to tools -> Select Optimize under optimize and defragment drive.
Step 4: A new windows will pop up and make sure that you have selected C Drive here.
Step 5: Click apply and ok and it will cleanup c drive and optimize it for you
Disk Clean up Method:
Step 1: Start menu and search Disc cleanup.
Step 2: You will be prompted with disk cleanup wizard window.
Step 3: It will perform a quick scan over your C drive and prompts with options which are available to cleanup c drive.
Step 4: Select all options in this window and select Clean up system files and it will perform a deep scan and once it is cleanup c drive for you.
Step 5: click delete and it will delete all files cache, temp, etc.