Software Trouble Shooting: Clean up Disk for optimum performance

Question 1

How can you initiate disk clean up?

Answer 1

Running Disk Clean-up allows you to clean up your hard drive and remove all temporary files to free up hard disk space. To run Disk Cleanup, type Disk Cleanup in the Windows search bar and select it. When it opens, select the files you would like to delete and then click the Clean up system files button, as shown in the following exhibit:

Question 2

What are your other options to free up disk space?

Answer 2

Running Programs and Features will allow you to delete programs that you rarely use. Choose Programs from the Control Panel app in Category view, or Programs and Features in icon view, and click Uninstall a program. (You can also go to System Settings, choose Apps & features, and select Programs and Features.) .

Question 3

What utility can you use to defragment a drive?

Answer 3

Windows Search - DEFRAG: Defragmentation, also known as defragging or defrag, is the process of rearranging the data on a storage medium,