Comparatively old hard drives have a small amount of memory. When working with such hard drives, it is necessary to periodically delete unnecessary information and clean up the partitions.
Instructions
Step 1
If you do not care about the information stored on certain partitions of your hard drive, perform a complete cleanup. Turn on your computer. Wait for the operating system to load.
Step 2
Open the Start menu and navigate to My Computer. Select the hard disk partition you want to clean up. Click on its icon with the right mouse button. In the expanded menu, select the "Format" item.
Step 3
Click the Restore Default Settings button. Change the volume label. To improve the performance of the hard drive, uncheck the "Clear Table of Contents" option. Click the Get Started button. Confirm the start of the process of deleting information from the selected section.
Step 4
Use this method to clean up other local drives. Never use it when working with a system volume.
Step 5
Use Windows tools to clean up the partition on which the operating system is installed. Open the My Computer menu. Go to the properties of local drive C.
Step 6
Select the General submenu and click the Disk Cleanup button. Wait while the program compiles a list of files that can be deleted without harm to the system. Select the unused files with checkboxes and click the Ok button. Wait for the program to finish running.
Step 7
In the event that you still do not have enough free space on the system partition, remove unused programs. Open the "Control Panel" menu and follow the link "Add or Remove Programs".
Step 8
Study the list of available applications carefully. Select the unnecessary program with the left mouse button and click "Uninstall". Follow the step by step menu of the running uninstaller. Remove other applications using the described method.
Step 9
Reboot your computer. Open the Program Files folder on drive C. Delete the residual files of those programs that you recently uninstalled.
