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How To Perform Disk Cleanup On Windows 10 Computer | Free Up Space
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Apr 26, 2025
Do you want to clean up your Drive C and free up more space? In this tutorial I show you how to optimize your windows 10 computer and make it much faster by cleaning up Drive C. WATCH: https://youtu.be/5pSmyobbP6E
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In this tutorial, I'm going to show you
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a quick method to clean up drive C on
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Windows 10. Now, cleaning up your
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Windows computer or your drive C will
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help optimize your computer and also
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make your computer run much faster. Now,
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for the sake of this tutorial, we are
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not going to use any third party
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software. We just going to use inbuilt
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tools within Windows 10 to perform disk
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cleanup. So, there are quite a number of
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steps that you can take. So, in the
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first step, go ahead and right click on
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start menu. Then, under it, you'll see
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an option called run. So if you tap on
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run, type in
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temp just like that and then tap on
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okay. Go ahead and click on
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continue. And now you'll see here we
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have quite a number of temporary files
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that are not
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needed. So go ahead and select all of
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them and then delete all of them. Under
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this there are some files that cannot be
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deleted. So go ahead and click on skip
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but also click on this do this for all
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current items. So I'll click this and
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then
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skip and that will clean up again. Go
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ahead and right click on start menu and
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then and then click on run and this time
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go ahead and add percentage at the
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beginning of temp and at the end of
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temp and again click on okay. We also
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have another set of files and as you can
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see there are quite too many and we also
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need to eradicate these. Select all of
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them and then
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delete and this will go
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ahead and delete them again. Go ahead
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and tap on run and then this time around
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and a pre
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fetch and then
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okay. Also click on continue. And you
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also have some temporary files here
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under preet. Go ahead and select all of
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them. Then delete. And here we go. It's
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done. Then take the next step. And the
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next step is to go and delete any
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unwanted program that is on your
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computer. So to do so, go ahead and
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click on control panel. Then under
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control panel, look for this option
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called programs and features. So under
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this you'll be able to see all the
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programs that are available on your
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computer and then identify all the
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programs that you no longer need or that
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are lying idle on your computer. Here go
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ahead and click on the identified
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programs. Then right click on it and
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choose the uninstall option and then
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this will go ahead and then uninstall
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the programs that are on your computer
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that you no longer need. This will free
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up much of your space on your computer.
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Once you have done on that, it's time to
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go ahead and empty our recycle bin. That
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is the next step that you need to take.
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So go and click on recycle bin which is
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here. These are deleted files that are
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on our computer. So whenever you delete
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a file without without using the shift
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combination, the file is usually stored
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on the recycle bin. However, if you want
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to empty the recycle bin, just go ahead
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and select all the items. Then choose
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the option called here empty recycle
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bin. Now this will go ahead and delete
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all the items on our recycle bin. And
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now as you can see I have quite a number
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of them and it will take some few
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minutes to do this. Now if you go ahead
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you'll find you have quite a number of
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free space on your drive C that was
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almost full. And the next step is to
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perform a complete disk cleanup. And to
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do this just click here and then search
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for disk cleanup. And as you can see, we
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have this clean up option here. So,
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choose this and this will go ahead and
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clean up the system. So, this will go
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ahead and calculate how much space
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you'll be able to free on our hard disk.
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So, go ahead and select all these files
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and then click on okay. And you have to
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select if you're sure you want to
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permanently delete these files. And some
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of the files that will be deleted will
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include Windows update cleanup, download
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program files, temporary internet files
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among others. So I'll go ahead and click
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on okay. And then this will go ahead and
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clean up my drive C. Now the last step
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you want to take is to go ahead and
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optimize your Windows 10 computer. To do
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that, go ahead and click on this PC and
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then right click on your local disc C or
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drive C. If you right click on it, go
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ahead and choose the option called
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properties. And then under this, go
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ahead and choose tools. And under tools,
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you can see we have an option to
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optimize and def fragment drive. And
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we're told here optimizing your
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computer's drives can help it run more
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efficiently. So I'll go ahead and click
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on optimize. And this will go ahead and
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highlight all the drives that you have
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on your computer. Go ahead and choose
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drive C. Then you'll see an option here
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to optimize. Go ahead and click on it
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and it will go ahead and optimize your
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drive C. So by following these steps,
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your computer will be running now much
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faster and your drive C will be
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optimized to give you the best
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performance. If you have any other
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question, kindly let me know in the
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