Best places to free space on Windows? [closed]

Solution 1:

Using Windirstat you see where the wasted space is.

WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows.

(The view you look for is)

• The treemap, which shows the whole contents of the directory tree straight away

Solution 2:

Try CCleaner by Piriform. It can remove unused files from Widows, Internet Explorer, FireFox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari and many other third party applications.

Solution 3:

Users' temp folders often contain large amounts of unnecessary data, for example

C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Temp

or

%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Temp

A simple way for a general cleanup is to run the Disk Space Cleanup Manager in Windows Vista (Search for "Disk Cleanup" in Vista's search box and run it.)

If you are running Windows Vista and installed Service Pack 1, there is a good chance you can free some GB by running the Windows Vista SP 1 cleanup utility (documentation):

vsp1cln.exe

(run it in an elevated CMD session.)

Solution 4:

If you have Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 that has had SP1 installed on it, run this command and it'll free up anywhere from 2-4GB.

dism /online /cleanup-image /spsuperseded