The C drive usually contains your PC’s operating system and stores all new applications. So, it’s crucial that this drive has enough free space and delivers high performance.
If your storage space is running out or the drive is not optimized, you’ll start experiencing lags or freezes. To resolve such issues, you need to clean your C drive properly.
However, since the drive contains your OS, you may’t haphazardly delete its contents. You need to use proper methods to optimize it, which we have explained below.
Here are the ways with which you may clean your C Drive and optimize your PC:
Your hard drives search for free sectors to store your files. But if there’s no sufficient free space in consecutive sectors, it can only store the files on random sectors. So accessing the fragmented files takes more time.
Defragmentation the disk doesn’t usually free up any space, but it’s still useful in improving your computer’s performance. If your computer starts lagging or opening files/running programs takes more time, you definitely want to defragment your HDD.
However,only hard drives (HDD) require defragmentation. you may not defragment SSDs as they use a separate optimal writing process. SSD comprises of a single magnetic tape and your system doesn’t scatter the data while storing on anSSD, like it does for an HDD.
It is possible to optimize SSDs. But they automatically clears data, based on frequency of usage, every 30 days or so. So, manually optimizing consumes more read/write cycles instead.
Here’s how you may defragment your C drive:
Disk Cleanup is the traditional Windows utility to clean your drives. you may use it to delete your temporary files, thumbnails and Recycle Bin contents, and some other files the system deems unimportant.
Here’s how you may use this tool to clean your C Drive:
Storage Sense is the modern alternative to Disk Cleanup that Microsoft created to facilitate the automatic cleanup of your drives. you may also set a schedule along with which types of files to remove during this process.
This process cleans up all your drives simultaneously. However, since drives other than C do not store any temporary files by default, Storage Sense usually just cleans the C Drive.
Here are the necessary steps for this method:
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