How to clear some space on your Personal Computer PC

How to make space on your computer, PC

Most of us (me included) forget to clear our temp files folder, recycle bin and temporary Internet files. You could free up quite a bit of space when you do this; all downloaded files, programs, cookies, temporary internet storage files, and other unnecessary clutter.  If you are afraid of deleting something that may be important, delete only your Temporary Internet Files for now, then get someone to help you who knows about these things.  You can contact us if you wish.

First check how much space you will free up and whether it is worth doing this, by following the next steps:
Open Windows Explorer
In My Computer  get your C:-drive left click on that
This opens a menu
Click on Properties
This will show you how much disk space you are using and how much free space you have.
Left click the [Disk cleanup] button
Note: This may take a few minutes as it has to go through the whole C: drive on your computer to check how much space can be freed.
It will come back with some options ticked and how much space each of these will free up.
 Downloaded programs nKb
 Temporary Internet Files nMb
 Recycle Bin nGb
 Temporary Files, etc nKb

....where n is a number in the above example

Gb means Gigabytes and is a lot of space
Mb is Megabytes and is a bit of space
Kb is Kilobytes and isn’t much
100 Kb = 1 Mb
100 Mb = 1 Gb

Click on the OK button and it will delete these files.
Check the percentage space you now have free.
Click OK again to remove the menu box

Now is the time to back up if you haven’t already. Do a backup at the very least once a month. If you are doing a lot of creative work, weekly is better. If you are going to lose valuable work and time, daily is the best option. Make it an automatic process, when it is most convenient for you. If you wish to know what the Why its necessary to back up check it out by clicking on the underlined bits which will take you to the back-up page or have a look at  What happens if you don't do backups regularly

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