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:
- 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)
- Secondly, select whether you’d like to perform the task for just your account or every account on the system.
- 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’
- The computer will then scan your selected drive
- 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)
- To confirm your selections click ‘delete files’
- Your computer will now perform a 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!