Cleanup Disk Drives in Windows 8

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   The first thing that we need to do is right-click in the lower left corner of the screen and click "Control Panel"

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   When the menu opens, we need to click "System and Security"

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   Scroll down and click "Free up disk space"

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   A new window will open where we need to select the drive.

   

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   For example, if we click the drop down menu, we can select from (C:), (D:), or (G:)

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   In this case, we're going to select the (C:) disk and click "OK".

   

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   Wait for it to calculate

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   When the process is finished, we will be presented with a window where all the residual files will be shown. For example, there are Downloaded Program Files, Temporary Internet Files, offline webpages, and so on.

   

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   We scroll down to see the list of files and check all of the ones we want to delete

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   In this case, the Downloaded Program Files and Recycle Bin don't need to be deleted because they contain 0 bytes. This means there is no data. We'll select everything that has data and click "OK".

   

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   Click "Delete Files"

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   Wait for it to finish

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   Depending on the size of the files, it can take several seconds, minutes or hours.

   

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   Once the process is finished, we can close all of the unnecessary Windows

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    This concludes the tutorial on how to clean up disk drives on a Windows 8 computer

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