How to Perform a Disk Clean Up

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From: IS Announcements Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 3:32 PM To: DRPA; PATCO_PERSONNEL Subject: How to Perform a Disk Cleanup on your Personal PC

Disk Cleanup is a Microsoft software utility which allows users to remove files that are no longer needed or that can be safely deleted. Removing unnecessary files, including temporary files, can help to speed up and improve the performance of the hard drive and computer. Running Disk Cleanup at least once a month is an excellent maintenance task and frequency.

How to perform a Disk Cleanup on your Personal Laptop or Home Computer – Please follow the directions for your Operating System (Windows XP, 7, 8 or 10)

Disk Cleanup on a Windows XP or Windows 7 system, follow these instructions: 1. Click Start 2. Go to All Programs 3. Go to Accessories 4. Go to System Tools 5. Click Disk Cleanup 6. At the Drives list, select which all the drives to run Disk Cleanup on 7. Select which files you want to delete 8. Click OK 9. Click Delete files

Disk Cleanup on a Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 system, follow these instructions: 1. Click Settings > Click Control Panel > Administrative Tools. 2. Click Disk Cleanup. 3. At the Drives list, select which drive you want to run Disk Cleanup on. 4. Select which files you want to delete. 5. Click OK. 6. Click Delete files

Disk Cleanup on a Windows 10 system, follow these instructions: 1. In the search box on the taskbar, type disk cleanup, and select Disk Cleanup from the list of results. 2. Select the drive you want to clean up, and then select OK. 3. Under Files to delete, select the file types to get rid of. To get a description of the file type, select it. 4. Select OK.

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