The performance of the computer will be greatly affected, if there are many accessible documents, then there are dump files and other unwanted files on the hard disk. Therefore, it is important to clean the hard drive regularly and often too. At this time, you may be particularly worried how to clean them without the unpaid software or tools. No need to be worry here in this article we are going to show you that how can you clean the hard drive of Windows 8.1 computer using Disk Cleanup.
7 Steps to Clean the Hard Drive
Step 1:
First of all in order to open “Disk Cleanup” you will need to press Windows key+Pause Break to open the System window.
Step 2:
From here choose “Performance Information and Tools” and then you from the left menu you will need to select “Open disk cleanup”.
Step 3:
Here you will need to click the down arrow in order to select a hard drive you want to clean up and then click OK.
Step 4:
Wait until the program is calculated so that you can free the space on the selected disk.
Step 5:
Here you will need to check the boxes before the files which you want to delete from your computer and then click OK.
Step 6:
Now in order to delete the files permanently from your computer you will need to click “Delete Files”.
Step 7:
Finally you will need to wait for the cleanup process to finish.