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2. What does "free up disk space" mean — and how do you fix it?

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   Use the Disk Cleanup function on Windows. Windows has a built-in feature that helps you free up disk space; it’s called Disk Cleanup. Just click the Start button and then search for it by name.

3. 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. In 2018, Microsoft introduced a second cleanup utility 'Storage Sense' in the Settings app with Windows 10 version 1803, but Disk Cleanup ...

4. Software bloat - Wikipedia

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   Performance may deteriorate overall as a result of such remnants, as the unwanted software or software components can occupy both hard disk memory and RAM, waste processing time, add disk I/O, and cause delays at system startup and shutdown. In the worst cases, the leftover software may interfere with the correct operation of wanted software.

5. CCleaner - Wikipedia

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   CCleaner 2.27 and later can wipe the MFT free space of a drive, or the entire drive. CCleaner can uninstall programs or modify the list of programs that execute on startup. [11] Since version 2.19, CCleaner can delete Windows System Restore points. CCleaner can also automatically update installed programs and computer drivers. [12] [13]

6. Microsoft Drive Optimizer - Wikipedia

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   In the version of Disk Defragmenter included with Windows 95 and 98, if the contents of the drive changed during defragmentation, the program paused, rescanned the entire drive, and then resumed the process from where it had left off. [6] This quirk was removed in the Windows Me version of Disk Defragmenter.

7. AVG PC TuneUp - Wikipedia

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   AVG PC TuneUp has features for PC maintenance, optimization, updates, to free up hard-drive space, and to uninstall unwanted applications. [4] The "Automatic Maintenance" tool removes tracking cookies, cache files, old files from removed applications, and fixes issues with the Windows registry. [4]