Disk Cleanup is a computer maintenance application included in Microsoft Windows operating systems. It’s designed to free up disk space on your computers hard drive. Therefore, it’s worth performing a cleanup every so often. The feature searches and reviews your hard drive for files which are no longer necessary. It will then, after you’ve made some selections, remove any files that are not needed on your machine.
Here is how to run a Disk Cleanup on XP:
- Firstly click ‘Start’ and select ‘All Programs’
- Then Select ‘Accessories’, followed by ‘System Tools’ and finally ‘Disk Cleanup’ (Click on image to enlarge)
- Your computer will now run a scan to locate files that could be removed or compressed.
- Next you should make selections regarding which files you would like to be removed. Simply click on the option, read the description and if you’d like this to be removed click in the box next to the option so it has a tick in it. We recommend that you don’t select to compress files as it will slow down your computer considerably (Click on image to enlarge)
- Your computer will now perform the Disk Cleanup.
Hopefully this tutorial has been helpful and will encourage you to run a Disk Cleanup. It’s a free way to improve the speed of your computer!
We will post about Disk Cleanup on Vista next week!
See Also:
Defrag for XP
ScanDisk for XP