How Do I Clean Up Space on My Computer?

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Tip 1 - Tips to free up drive space on your PC - Windows Help

Published: 9 years, 7 month(s) ago | Submitted by Petronski | permalink

Learn how to free up space on your PC by using Disk Cleanup, uninstalling apps, and archiving old files.
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For further reading: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/free-up-disk-space ^[1]

Tip 2 - Delete files using Disk Cleanup - Windows Help

Published: 9 years, 7 month(s) ago | Submitted by Bambi | permalink

Learn how to use Disk Cleanup to delete files you no longer need and reclaim storage space on your PC.

For further reading: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/delete-files-using-disk-cleanup ^[2]

Tip 3 - 7 Ways To Free Up Hard Disk Space On Windows

Published: 9 years, 7 month(s) ago | Submitted by Fabrice EKINDJIAN | permalink

Hard drives are getting larger and larger, but somehow they always seem to fill up. This is even more true if you’re using a solid-state drive (SSD), which offers much less hard drive space than traditional mechanical hard drives.

For further reading: http://www.howtogeek.com/125923/7-ways-to-free-up-hard-disk-space-on-windows/ ^[3]

Tip 4 - Guide to Freeing up Disk Space under Windows 8.1

Published: 9 years, 7 month(s) ago | Submitted by Kelly Epperson | permalink

This is an 'updated for Windows 8.1' version of my popular original article Guide to Freeing up Disk Space under ...
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For further reading: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/GuideToFreeingUpDiskSpaceUnderWindows81.aspx ^[4]

Tip 5 - Windows 8.1 Update tip: Clean up that disk space now

Published: 9 years, 7 month(s) ago | Submitted by Marta Alu 00edpio | permalink

Now that you're used to the new Windows 8.1 Update, it's time to clear up some space on that hard drive.

For further reading: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2143502/windows-8-1-update-tip-clean-up-that-disk-space-now.html ^[5]

Tip 6 - Recover Tons of Wasted Disk Space with the New Windows Update Cleanup

Published: 9 years, 7 month(s) ago | Submitted by Jeremy Hardin | permalink

Windows: Microsoft has released a Windows 7 update that adds a new option in the Disk Cleanup tool called Windows Update Cleanup. With it, you can free up several gigabytes of hard drive space from the bloated Windows Updates folder.
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For further reading: http://lifehacker.com/recover-tons-of-wasted-disk-space-with-the-new-windows-1442937625 ^[6]