pctoolbox.co.uk » computer speed http://www.pctoolbox.co.uk tech.blog Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:36:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Disk Cleanup – Vista http://www.pctoolbox.co.uk/2009/10/14/disk-cleanup-vista/ http://www.pctoolbox.co.uk/2009/10/14/disk-cleanup-vista/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:00:23 +0000 Alex http://pctoolbox.co.uk/?p=1483 We recently wrote a post about performing a ‘Disk Cleanup’ on XP and we thought it would be a good idea to do one for Vista too! 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 perform Disk Cleanup on Vista:

  1. Firstly click on the start Orb and type ‘Disk Cleanup’ in the box.  Then click on the ‘Disk Cleanup’ option under programs (Click on image to enlarge)
    Start + Type
  2. Secondly, select whether you’d like to perform the task for just your account or every account on the system.
    Select User
  3. Next choose which drive you would like the cleanup to be performed on.  For this example we’ll use option (C:).  You can choose the drive from the drop down list.  Once you’ve chosen click ‘OK’
    Select Drive
  4. The computer will then scan your selected drive
    Scanning
  5. 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. (Click on image to enlarge)
    Select Options
  6. To confirm your selections click ‘delete files’
    delete files
  7. Your computer will now perform a Disk Cleanup
    Performing Disk Cleanup

We hope this has been helpful. Running Disk Cleanup can be a great way to increase the performance of your computer.  If you have any questions comment below!



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Here is how to run a Disk Cleanup on XP:

  1. Firstly click ‘Start’ and select ‘All Programs’
    start
  2. Then Select ‘Accessories’, followed by ‘System Tools’ and finally ‘Disk Cleanup’ (Click on image to enlarge)
    select-disk-clean-up
  3. Your computer will now run a scan to locate files that could be removed or compressed.
    scanning
  4. 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)
    Select options for Disk Cleanup
  5. Your computer will now perform the Disk Cleanup.
    Disk Cleanup Scanning

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



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