How to clean c drive

The all-important “C” drive is, for most people, the core of the PC, where the operating system is installed and all the crucial system files are kept.

Disk cleanup

Inevitably, this is also the drive that gets filled up most easily due to endless Windows updates, temporary files of applications, downloaded files that you forget about, and the fact that by default, everything saves to the “C” drive.

Here we show you how to clean up your C drive in Windows, recover some space, and subsequently get it running again.

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1. Delete Temporary Files

Manually removing temporary files in Windows gives the most immediate results to clean up the C drive and regain space.

Below, we show you some tricks that clean out your various temporary files automatically, but those methods (like Storage Sense and Disk Clean-up) won’t do a complete job of clearing out temporary files, and there’s a good chance that the biggest, most hard-drive-h

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