By Achilles Hill | Last Updated
"It seems that my Windows 10 computer runs slower than before. And it seems there is less than 30G for my computer hard drive. I want to find what takes up disk space and speed up the computer. Can anyone help me?"
When the hard drive gets full, the computer runs slowly and takes more time to respond. The first thing you need to do is see what is taking space on your hard drive. Then, you can release the disk space to speed up the computer. And this article will show you how to check what is taking space on hard drive as well as how to get more space quickly.
It is easy for you to check what is taking space on hard drive. You can click into one hard drive to check the files/folders. Instead, Windows 10 offers you a quick way to get the whole storage status.
Step 1: Get hidden files displayed on the hard drive.
The hidden files also occupy the disk space. So it is better to show them on the hard drive. Here you can use 2 methods to display the hidden files. Check this page: How to show hidden files and folders in Windows 10.
Step 2: Click the Windows icon and choose settings icon from the menu.
Step 3: In Windows settings interface, click "System".
Step 4: Next, you can click "Storage" on the left-side panel. After that, you will get all the local disk storage status displayed. Besides, you can view how much space has been used and how much space is left free on each partition.
Step 5: Click on one hard drive partition and you can view what's taking up the most space on the drive. You can repeat this operation to check each partition space usage details.
After you have a full understand about the hard drive space usage, you can free up the disk space according to the storage usage, such as clean the temporary files, uninstall the Apps & games and move the videos/pictures/music to other storage devices. You can find more details in this article: 6 Tricks to Free up Disk Space on Windows 10.
If you find the hard drive have a large number of temporary files, you can use iSunshare System Genius to clean up junk files, registry and optimize the Windows system. iSunshare System Genius is an ideal tool for you to free up disk space quickly and easily.
Step 1: Run iSunshare System Genius and click "Scan" on the Home interface.
Step 2: iSunshare System Genius will scan your computer and present you the result soon. All the junk file categories and registry entries will be selected by default. You can click "Clean" to clear those files immediately.
After the cleanup ends, you will get more space to use. It is highly recommended to do a computer cleanup weekly or monthly.
Extra tips: If you find a lot of duplicate files on your hard drive, such as pictures, documents, audio, videos, etc. You can use iSunshare DupFiles Genius to find and clean up these duplicate files. It can identify all types of duplicate files and classify them skillfully. It can also help you free up disk space and improve the performance of your Windows PC. You can give it a shot!
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