Your hard drive may be full or almost full at a certain point. This means that the time has come to free up space on your Windows 10 computer. Although the capacity of hard drives has evolved dramatically over time, there are times when the drive gets full. Therefore, we are forced to carry out a cleaning to be able to have some free space in it.
If you have a Windows 10 computer, we have several ways available to achieve this. So the process of freeing up space is going to be really easy for you. Below we comment on the possibilities that we currently have available.
From Windows 10 settings
In the operating system we have a tool called cleaner available, which is what helps us in this process. Thanks to it, it will be very simple to determine those files that are of no use to us on the computer, so that we can free up space without losing something that is important to us at all times. We can go from the Windows 10 configuration very simply.
We go to the configuration and within it we have to click on the first option in the list, which is the system section. Inside it, we look at the column that appears on the left side of the screen. In it we find the storage section, on which we must click.
On this screen we have several options that may be of interest to us. On the one hand we find the function called "Change the way to automatically free up space”. If we enter it, we will be able to determine the frequency with which files from previous Windows 10 installations will be automatically deleted. Files that no longer serve us, but that take up space on our computer. We can determine the frequency in this case, to keep the disk as free as possible.
In addition to this option, we find another that says free space now. If we click on it, Windows 10 prepares to free up disk space. What the operating system will do is look for those files that can be deleted, because they are no longer useful on the computer. After a few seconds of this analysis, it will show us on the screen everything that we can easily eliminate. Thus, we gain disk space.
Free up space on your hard drive
The second way that we have available in Windows 10 to free up space is the most classic of all, since we have used it in other versions of the operating system before. For it, we have to go to the "My Computer" section where the hard drive is located we have on the computer. We must then click with the right mouse button on it and enter the properties of the hard drive in question.
In them, we find on the screen the space that is used in it and the space that we have free. Under these options, we can see a button that says "Free space". So we simply have to click on it. Windows 10 will carry out a very quick analysis to determine which files we can delete on the computer. We then check if we agree with what is shown on the screen and then we accept. If there is something that we do not want to delete, we can uncheck it in the list that appears on the screen.
Thus, we proceed to free up space in Windows 10. If it's something we haven't done regularly in the past, we may be able to free up a lot of hard drive space. Something that will undoubtedly benefit us. Since freeing up space will allow the hard disk to work faster, allowing us to carry out actions more quickly and fluently. As you can see, it is a really simple process to carry out, so you will not need to be expert users to achieve it.