Disk Cleanup On Windows 10

Upgrade Hard Drive. We will explain. Although there are several solutions (Fix #2-9). This video shows you, How to Clean C Drive (Local Disk C) In Windows 10 for more free space, better load times, and increased system performance! Smart Disk Cleanup provides a safe and easy way to clean up junk files, duplicates, and large files. In just a few minutes you can safely and easily free up GBs of disk space. Items cleaned with Smart Disk Cleanup: Duplicates - Unnecessary duplicate files can take up GBs of disk space. Disk Cleanup is a Microsoft software utility and included in all subsequent releases of Windows. As can be seen in the picture, Disk Cleanup can delete Temporary Internet Files (associated with Internet Explorer), Downloaded Program Files, and Offline webpage.

To delete temporary files:

  1. In the search box on the taskbar, type disk cleanup, and select Disk Cleanup from the list of results.

  2. Select the drive you want to clean up, and then select OK.

  3. Under Files to delete, select the file types to get rid of. To get a description of the file type, select it.

  4. Select OK.

If you need to free up more space, you can also delete system files:

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  1. In Disk Cleanup, select Clean up system files.

  2. Select the file types to get rid of. To get a description of the file type, select it.

  3. Select OK.

Note: If you notice that the Temp folder fills up quickly after running Disk Cleanup, see Low Disk Space error due to a full Temp folder.

For more on freeing up space on your PC, see Free up drive space in Windows 10.

This article introduces how to clean up disk in Windows 10 with native Disk Cleanup utility. Run Windows 10 Disk Cleanup via wizard and command line.

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Most people encounter low disk space issue in Windows 10 laptop or desktop. Windows Updates, system log, temp, programs and many other types of files write into C drive continuously, so C drive becomes full sooner or later. If you replace disk with a new one, hard disk manufacturers will be very glad. When C drive runs out of space, firstly try to free up disk space with Windows 10 Disk Cleanup utility, then you can reclaim disk space by deleting junk files. If you cannot get enough free space, you can reallocate more space from other partitions.

1. About Windows 10 Disk Cleanup utility

Disk Cleanup is a Microsoft Windows computer native included maintenance utility that is used to free up disk space on hard disk drives. The utility is easy and fast, it searches and analyzes the hard drive for files that are no longer of any use, and then removes the unnecessary files safely. These unnecessary and junk files include Windows Updates, Temporary files, Logs, Cache, files in Recycle Bin, etc.

You can run Disk Cleanup in all Windows versions from XP, however, in some Windows version such as Server 2008 and 2012, Disk Cleanup is not enabled by default, so you need to manually install it. Starting with Windows 10 version 1803, Disk Cleanup are incorporated into Windows 10's Settings app, however, the standalone Disk Cleanup utility is still available.

2. Three ways to launch Disk Cleanup in Windows 10

① Press Windows and R key on keyboard, type cleanmgr, and then click OK.

Select C: drive or other one that you want to clean up.

② Open Windows File Explorer, right click C: drive and select Properties.

③ Search from task bar at bottom left. Type clean then Disk Cleanup is shown on the top.

3. How to clean up disk in Windows 10 with wizard

When the Disk Cleanup window is opened, it is very easy to complete the next steps.

1. Click the check-boxes to select the files that you want to remove and click OK to begin. If you are not sure what is the meaning of the files, click it and you'll see corresponding description on the bottom.

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2. Confirm this operation by clicking Delete Files.

After that, Disk Cleanup will begin deleting the unnecessary and junk files.

3. Repeat to Clean up system files.

4. How to run Disk Cleanup in Windows 10 via command line

There are 3 ways to clean up disk in Windows 10 with command line, select the one that fit for your needs.

① Command with all files selected

  1. Press Windows and R together on the keyboard.
  2. Input cleanmgr /LOWDISK and press Enter.
  3. Disk Cleanup dialog box will pop up with all types of files selected by default, so you just need to click OK to confirm.

② Clean up all junk files automatically

  1. Press Windows and R together on the keyboard.
  2. Input cleanmgr /VERYLOWDISK and press Enter.

Then Disk Cleanup will delete all junk files automatically and then show you a dialog box with result.

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③ Clean up specified junk files automatically

  1. Press Windows and R together on the keyboard to open Run.
  2. Input cleanmgr /sageset:1 and press Enter. (You can specify the value from 0 to 65535).
  3. Disk Cleanup dialog box will pop up, select the files to delete and click OK.
  4. Press Windows and R together on the keyboard, input cleanmgr /sageset:1 and press Enter. Then the preselected junk files will be deleted without a result window.

In the future, you just need to run cleanmgr /sageset:1. If you want to delete different types of files, input cleanmgr /sageset:2 in step 2 and run cleanmgr /sageset:2 in step 4.

5. Additional options after cleaning up disk

If you did not get plenty of free space after running Disk Cleanup in Windows 10, the 3 methods below are very useful.

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① Move installed apps and games

When installing programs, many people use default settings to C: drive. The more you installed, the less space left. It's better to install programs to separated partition. Better than previous versions, Windows 10 can move these programs to other partition without reinstalling.

Steps to clean up C drive in Windows 10 by moving applications:

  1. Press Windows and X on keyboard, then click Settings > Apps > Apps & features
  2. Click an app or game.
  3. Click the Move bottom.
  4. Select the new location from the drop-down list.
  5. Click the Move button.
  6. Repeat the steps to move more items.

② Save files to new location

Windows 10 has another new option to save new files of apps, documents, music, pictures, and videos to other place, steps:

  1. Press Windows and X on keyboard, then click Settings
  2. Click System> Storage.
  3. Click Change where new content is saved under More storage settings.
  4. Click the drop-down list to select new location and click Apply.

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③ Add more free space to C: drive

If you cannot reclaim large amount of disk space, C drive may be full again in the near future, so you'd better add more free space from other partitions.

In most of computers, there is unused space in any other partitions, NIUBI Partition Editor can transfer these free space into C drive without losing data. Operating System, programs and associated setting keep the same with before.

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DownloadNIUBI Partition Editor Free Edition and follow the steps in the video:

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Expand C drive as large as possible and run Windows 10 Disk cleanup monthly, then you won't see C drive out of space issue again.