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Your C drive gets full and the Windows runs slowly? What would you do if you are running out of disk space on drive C? How to get more disk space on the desktop or laptop? A series of such questions has been asked online when you search for the tips to free up space on your C drive. Here, we will show you top 7 ways to free up space on your C drive and make your Windows 10/8/7 computer run smoothly and quickly again.
If your C drive has less usage space, your computer will run slowly, you can make good use of the following tips to free up space on C drive.
For work or personal needs, many people get used to installing a series of small tools on Windows computer. Some of those applications are used once a year or hardly. Here, to get more space on C drive, you can remove those applications. It will be of great help to free up the C drive space. You just need to access control panel and find Programs > Programs and Features > Uninstall a program. Then select the program from the list and click Uninstall. You will get the application and its components removed in minutes.
Usually the C drive stores the system data and the installed software. But most of us will place the important files or folders on the desktop, which will occupy the C drive space. The duplicate files on desktop could also occupy the space of your C drive. You can manage the desktop and delete the duplicate files to free up some storage space for computer.
It is difficult to manually find the duplicate files on your C drive. But the duplicate file finder can make it done quickly. iSunshare DupFiles Genius is such powerful tool that can help to scan and delete the identical files to speed up your computer.
Step 1: Open the software and add C drive as the target to scan. Then click the Next button.
Step 2: Customize the scan settings. If there is no special requirement, you can click Start scanning directly.
The scanning process would take a long time as there are a great number of files in the system drive. You just need to wait patiently for the scanning report.
Step 3: One-click on the checkbox ahead of File Name section. In this way, all duplicate files are selected and you can go to hit on the Delete button. After that, confirm your operation.
Step 4: Minutes later, you will get the successful prompt.
Note: As there are so much data stored in the system drive, you may get the following Tips pop-out. Just click OK to continue.
If you have saved large files, such as videos, images and audios, on the desktop, it is better for you to move them to another drive or the external storage devices. You can even upload it onto the cloud. It will help to release more space for C drive.
The Windows' default download path is C:\Users\YourAccountName\Downloads. All downloading files from internet will be stored here. There is no doubt that there are more and more files occupying C drive space on the computer. You can change the default download location and move all files to another drive so that they will not take up the space of C drive in the future.
Sometimes, you can release more space for the C drive by doing a disk cleanup. You can delete the downloaded files and temporary files as well as empty the recycle bin easily. How to perform the disk cleanup? There are common two ways to clean C drive.
Option 1: Clear C drive with Disk Cleanup Tool
In your Windows 10/8/7 computer, you can see all partitions on the hard drive. Then right-click the C drive and choose Properties, Click Disk Cleanup and it will calculate how much space it will be able to free on C drive. After that, you can check the files to delete and click OK.
Option 2: Clean C drive with iSunshare System Genius
iSunshare System Genius offers the quickest way to clean C drive to free up system disk. You just need to run the software and select System Disk. The System Disk Cleanup window will appear and you can clearly see the amount of space that can be cleared for your C drive. With a simple click on the Release button, you can free up C drive in minutes.
The Browser cache and cookies will take up very little space on your C drive. You can clear it to win more space. Take Google Chrome, the most popular browser, as an example, you can open Settings > Advanced > Privacy and security > Clear browsing data. At last, check the data you want to clear.
If the above 5 tips makes no effect to reduce the used space of C drive, you can consider adding a larger SSD to the computer. iSunshare CloneGo can help you safely clone C drive to the another hard drive. For specific details, you can check how to clone C drive to another hard drive.
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