UPCleaner - A Comprehensive Guide to Free Up Disk Space

Hard drives are getting larger and larger, but somehow they always seem to fill up. This is even more true if you’re using a solid-state drive (SSD), which offers much less hard drive space than traditional mechanical hard drives.

If you’re hurting for hard drive space, these tricks should help you free up space for important files and programs by removing the unimportant junk cluttering up your hard disk.

Remove junk files

You don’t even have to click a “Save” button once while using your computer to accumulate junk files. Simply checking emails, setting your computer to hibernate or surfing the web will build up junk files on your computer. One way to clean them up and speed up your computer is to run the Windows inbuilt “Disk Cleanup” utility. To do that go to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Disk Cleanup. You can also get third party programs that can find and delete even more junk files.

Optimize Your PC with Native and Third-Party Software

Here I highly recommend a totally free one to you, which is called UPCleaner. It is a permanently free computer cleaner tool that blitzes clutter and unwanted files from your computer, leaving it in tip top condition and faster than ever. It will automatically delete all kinds of unused junk files like system junk files, usage history, browser junk files and registry in a few seconds.

Remove duplicate files

You may not realize how many duplicate files you have accumulated on your system! Even people who do relatively little file management and movement can still accumulate duplicate files. It is a painfully time consuming task to try to remove all of them manually. Use a third party application like: Easy Duplicate Finder

Unintall unnecessary applications
Here is another tip on how to free up your disk space. It only takes a couple of months of computer use for unneeded programs to start stacking up. To check over your list of installed programs and remove the ones you don’t need, do the following:


In Windows XP, go to Start -> Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs


In Windows 7 and Vista, go to Start -> Control Panel -> Programs -> Programs and Features


Reduce the Amount of Space Used for System Restore


If System Restore is eating up a lot of hard drive space for restore points, you can reduce the amount of hard disk space allocated to System Restore. The trade-off is you’ll have less restore points to restore your system from and less previous copies of files to restore. If these features are less important to you than the hard disk space they use, go ahead and free a few gigabytes by reducing the amount of space System Restore uses.