The all-important “C” drive is the core of the PC, where the operating system is installed, and all the crucial system files are kept. Inevitably, this is also the drive that gets filled up most easily due to endless Windows updates, downloaded files that you forget about, and the fact that by default everything saves to the “C” drive.
Today I gonna show you how to clean up "C drive" or "Local Disc C" in your Windows 10 to make your PC run faster. It's a simple procedure but very effective, we are not using any third party software during this cleaning process so you don't have to download any of those programs.
For your information cleaning the unwanted files from your PC's "C” drive or "Local Disc C” will make your Windows 10 run much faster.
Let's start:
Cleaning
- From your Keyboard press Windows key + R in order to open Run command, and type temp and hit Ok.
- It will open a new window where you have to give it admin permission to open it so click on Continue.
- This opens a folder here you have select all the entities and press Shift + Delete to delete those files.
- Some files cannot be deleted so Skip them.
- Now open the Run command again and type %temp% then hit Ok. This will open a new window repeat the same procedure as you have done before.
- Now again open up the Run command for one last time and type prefetch and hit Ok this will open a new folder again you have to grant it permission then select all the files and delete them like you did previously.
Recycle Bin
You may know already but I have to tell you whenever you delete something by right click delete option or by simply pressing the Delete button from your keyboard that thing is thrown to recycle bin for a certain limit and for Windows 10 that limit is 50GB's, so the recycle bin is using your "C” drive space until you don't empty it.To do so simply right click on the recycle bin icon and press Empty Recycle Bin from the drop-down menu.
Uninstall
Sometimes you install a program for your one time use then you don't use it again this also takes space from you "C" drive so, head over to Windows 10 search bar and type Add or Remove Programs and hit enter.
This will open new Window Apps & Features so come down and uninstall the unwanted programs.
Optimize "C” Drive
Open the file explorer and right click on on "C" drive and click on the properties from the drop-down menu.
Now click on the Tools from the properties window and click on Optimize.
It will open a new window select "C" drive and click on Optimize and that pretty much we can do here.
Disc Clean up
Open the file explorer and right click on on "C" drive and click on the properties from the drop-down menu.
Here click on Disc Cleanup.
It will open a new window from here click on Cleanup System Files.
After calculation, a window will appear to select the files you want to delete and hit Ok.
Conclusion
It's good to go through this routine every now and then, but it’s advisable to make sure it doesn’t fill up in the first place.One of my favorite tricks in this respect is changing the default destination of the “Pictures,” “Documents,” “Music” and “Video” folders to a secondary hard drive. (Just right-click them, go to Properties, then the Location tab.) Happy cleaning!
