Hello Readers, I hope you had a great day! Today I am making a post on Part 3 in Optimizing your computer on your own. Today’s lesson will show you how to do a disk cleanup.

Yes, you have uninstalled some programs and deleted items from your computer. But did you know, even though you deleted or uninstalled items, they are still hanging out on your hard drive? Yes, they are still on your computer and taking up precious space. Or worse, they are slowing down your computer’s performance.

Here is how you can clean up your hard drive:

First, go to your “start button“. Click on “all programs“, then “accessories“, then “system tools“, then “disk cleanup“.

Now you need to choose the hard drive you want to clean up.

Then you will see a status bar displaying disk cleanup and its progress.

Then a box will pop up with all your old files sitting on your hard drive. Make sure every box is checked. Now hit the “Ok” button.

Then you will need to choose “yes” to perform these actions.

Now your computer will start the cleanup. This may take 20 minutes to several hours, depending on how much space your Hard drive needs to be cleaned, or how often you do a disk cleanup.

When the status bar reaches the end it will disappear and you will be done with disk cleanup.

I recommend restarting your computer at this point, but it is optional.

That concludes this lesson on how to do a disk cleanup.

If you have any question at all just email me at
rc@rchubb.com