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Starting Disk Cleanup
Disk Cleanup is available on both Home and Professional
versions of XP. The utility can be accessed in any of the methods listed below.
- Click Start | Programs | Accessories
| System Tools | Disk Cleanup
- Click Start | Run and in the Open box type cleanmgr
and click OK
- In Windows Explorer or My Computer, right-click the
disk in which you want to free up space, click Properties, click the General tab, and then
click Disk Cleanup.
- One more method which is the quickest is to create a shortcut on the desktop. Click here to see how that little trick works.
Click [OK] and Disk Cleanup will analyze the selected drive to determine
the amount of space that can be freed.
Once the process starts analyzing the drive you have selected you can see the progress and if they drive has been cleaned on a
normal basis like it should it won't take much time at all but if not it can be a little lengthy but worth the wait in gold.
Once complete you will see a list of categories for you
to choose from.
Clear the check boxes for files that you don't want to delete, and then click
OK.
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When prompted to confirm that you want to delete the specified files, click Yes. |
After a few minutes, the process completes and the Disk Cleanup
dialog box closes, leaving your computer cleaner and performing better.
Now let's run the Disk Defragmenter.
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