Gain Gigabytes Of Space On Windows

Tired of seeing red partitions even if they look kinda good? Let's turn them back to blue. Junk takes a lot of space on your hard drive and maybe you're not aware of that. It's just like you're not aware of the fact that the sun's mass takes up 99% mass of our entire solar system.

Follow the steps below and clean your PC up!


Step 1 - CCleaner

Download CCleaner, install and start the application. Click Analyze, take one final look at your garbage and click Run Cleaner.

Don't use the software "Advanced SystemCare" to clean because sometimes it shows fake data as junk/registry fixes so you see it as a useful software. It does have more features but CCleaner is better and trustful for this job.


Step 2 - Disk cleaner

There's a built-in Windows feature to clean up Partitions and it's surprisingly useful. Right click Local Disk C and go to Properties. Now click Disk Cleanup button and a scan will automatically run. Then click Clean up system files and another scan will run.

In the scan results, if your PC was recently updated there will be something which looks like Previous Windows installations. If so, check it's checkbox. You could gain up to 40GB of space after cleaning Previous Windows installations.
This isn't effective for other partitions. You can still do it if you don't have anything else to do with your life though.

Step 3 - IObit Uninstaller

Use IObit Uninstaller every time you uninstall a program. The reason is, when you uninstall a program most of the time a few files and some registry entries are left and, IObit Uninstaller automatically scans them for you. You can choose which ones to keep or delete them all. 
Using this you can even remove pre-installed Windows apps! There might be some apps you never use.

I didn't know I've installed Opera Browser until I made this post. Gotta remove that.

Step 4 - Compress Images To Save Space

Step 5 - Bonus

Go to CCleaner -> Tools -> Disk Analyzer and analyze each partition one by one to see what files take a lot of space. (There might be some large temporary files made by specific software like Adobe After Effects that aren't cleaned up by the normal method.)

Well, you can use this one for other partitions as well. Maybe you'll find some movies that are not worth the space they take.

That's it for now. This post will be updated if more methods are found.
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Credits
CCleaner : https://www.ccleaner.com
IObit Uninstaller : https://www.iobit.com/en/advanceduninstaller.php