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  2. Disk Cleanup - Wikipedia

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    Disk Cleanup (cleanmgr.exe) is a computer maintenance utility included in Microsoft Windows designed to free up disk space. It was introduced in Windows 98 and has been a part of Microsoft Windows ever since.

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    Clean Up Your PC. In minutes, cleans up over 50 different types of junk files and regains thousands of megabytes of hard disk space! Boosts internet speed and removes internet traces.

  4. Temporary folder - Wikipedia

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    In systems with magnetic hard disk drives, performance (overall system IOPS) will increase if disk-head movements from regular disk I/O are separated from the access to the temporary directory. Increasingly, memory-based solutions for the temporary directory or folder are being used, such as " RAM disks " set up in random-access memory or the ...

  5. Defragmentation - Wikipedia

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    An otherwise blank disk has five files, A through E, each using 10 blocks of space (for this section, a block is an allocation unit of the filesystem; the block size is set when the disk is formatted and can be any size supported by the filesystem). On a blank disk, all of these files would be allocated one after the other (see example 1 in the ...

  6. Logical Disk Manager - Wikipedia

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    The Logical Disk Manager (LDM) is an implementation of a logical volume manager for Microsoft Windows NT, developed by Microsoft and Veritas Software.It was introduced with the Windows 2000 operating system, and is supported in Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 and Windows 11.

  7. Clear cache on a web browser - AOL Help

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    Clear your browser's cache in Edge • Clear your browser's cache in Safari • Clear your browser's cache in Firefox • Clear your browser's cache in Chrome. Internet Explorer may still work with some AOL services, but is no longer supported by Microsoft and can't be updated. We recommend you download a new browser.

  8. System partition and boot partition - Wikipedia

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    The system partition is the disk partition that contains the operating system folder, known as the system root. By default, in Linux, operating system files are mounted at / (the root directory ). In Linux, a single partition can be both a boot and a system partition if both /boot/ and the root directory are in the same partition.

  9. Disk formatting - Wikipedia

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    Formatting a disk for use by an operating system and its applications typically involves three different processes. [e]Low-level formatting (i.e., closest to the hardware) marks the surfaces of the disks with markers indicating the start of a recording block (typically today called sector markers) and other information like block CRC to be used later, in normal operations, by the disk ...