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How can I free up space on my laptop hard drive?
Hi everyone, It is a Surface Laptop Go 1st Gen with a 256GB SSD, and the drive is almost full. I don't have many large programs installed, but Windows 10 keeps warning me about low disk space. What...
Quick Wins is a fast, built-in way to free up space on my laptop hard drive using Windows Disk Cleanup, no extra software needed.
How to free up space on my laptop hard drive
1. Run Disk Cleanup
- Type Disk Cleanup in the Start menu
- Select the C: drive → OK
- Click Clean up system files
2. Check these boxes：
- Temporary Files
- Recycle Bin
- Delivery Optimization Files
- Windows Update Cleanup
- Previous Windows Installations
3. Click OK → Delete Files
With just a few simple steps, you can free up 10 to 20 GB of storage space and quickly make room on your laptop's hard drive.
It's a great method—I've tried it myself.
ps：
- Do not select any personal file options you are unfamiliar with, to avoid accidentally deleting important data.
- Once you delete a previous Windows installation, you will no longer be able to restore that version of Windows using the System Restore feature.
- Files deleted using Disk Cleanup are difficult to recover, so please carefully review the selected items first.
- Be sure to click “Clean up system files”; if you skip this step, large junk files such as Windows updates will not be cleaned up.