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How to perform a Disk Clean-up in Windows XP

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Summary:

The Disk Cleanup tool helps you free up space on your hard disk by searching your disk for files that you can safely delete. You can choose to delete some or all of the files. Use Disk Cleanup to perform any of the following tasks to free up space on your hard disk.



Details:

Over a period of time, your system accumulates lots of unwanted or unused files that impact its performance.

You can perform Disk Cleanup, by following these steps:

1.       Click "Start" go to All Programs, Accessories and then System Tools and select Disk Cleanup.

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Click Start, and then click Run. In the Open box, type in cleanmgr, and then click OK.

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2.       In the "Select Drive" dialog box, select the Drive for performing the Disk Cleanup.

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3.       In the Disk Cleanup window, click on the "More options" tab and click on the tab "Clean up" under System restore options. This will delete all stored System Restore points (except the most recent Restore point) freeing more space in the Hard Drive.

4.       In the main Disk Cleanup window put a check mark on the files to be deleted and then click OK. Next, when the Disk Cleanup alert message "Are you sure you want to perform this actions?" appears, click Yes. Disk Cleanup will delete all the unwanted and temporary files to create more space in the Hard Drive.

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Applies To:

Microsoft® Windows® XP


Keywords:

Disk cleanup, Perform disk clean up, Clean up disk, Remove old files, Delete temporary files, Windows XP disk clean up, Disk clean up feature, Free up hard drive space




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