By Achilles Hill | Last Updated
With frequently using the Windows 10 computer, it's easy to run out of the hard disk space because of the growing number of installed apps, stored documents or temporary files, etc. The disk with insufficient storage not only brings you the annoying low-space warning, but also slows down the running speed of your Windows 10 computer. Therefore, it's suggested to free up disk space on Windows 10 PC regularly. Next, we will show you 5 tricks about how to free up disk space on Windows 10 Acer laptop, which also can be applied to other brands of computers, including HP, Lenovo, Asus, Toshiba and so on.
When we use the computer, it is inevitable to download files from the Internet. Even some of them are downloaded from span websites without your permission. For most applications, such as Microsoft Edge, its download directory is This PC\ Downloads. However, as for Google Chrome and Opera browser, their download folders are C:\Users\Username\Downloads. Moreover, open the application and click on Settings > Download to access the download folder if you cannot find it. Then, delete the unneeded files in the download directory.
Want to remove the useless registry files correctly and easily delete junk files including but not limited to temporary files, files in recycle bin, etc? iSunshare System Genius can help you do it! iSunshare System Genius is a professional PC cleaner that is designed to delete junk files and registry files effortlessly. It's worth saying that this tool also has the system startup/services management function. So, how does this tool work? Let's read on to find the answer.
Step 1: Get iSunshare System Genius on your Windows 10 PC.
Step 2: Run the software and choose Clean All. Then, click Scan in the right pane.
Step 3: When the software finishes the scanning process, you can scroll the page to see the results in details and double-click each item to learn more related information. At last, hit Clean to delete the junk files and registry files.
Alternatively, you can clear the junk files and registry more directly via the software's System Disk Cleanup function within 2 simple steps: switch to the System Disk option > hit the Release button.
User accounts can take up the hard drive space sometimes. If there are unneeded user accounts on your Windows 10 OS, just remove them to free up the hard drive space easily.
Step 1: Click the Start button and choose Settings
.
Step 2: In the Settings interface, select Accounts and then click Family & other users in the left menu.
Step 3: Locate to the unneeded account and hit Remove.
Step 4: Click Delete account and data to remove the selected user account.
In order to speed up Windows 10 computer, you can also delete the duplicate files to get more disk space. With iSunshare DupFiles Genius, you can easily detect the duplicate files and remove them. You can scan duplicate files on the whole disk or just one drive at a time. It depends on which location you set to scan.
Step 1: Run the software and then click the Add button to choose all drives on your Windows 10 disk as the target. After that, click the Next button.
Step 2: Define the scan criterion. If there is nothing special, you can click the Start scanning button to continue.
Step 3: Minutes later, you will get the duplicate files report. If the data is too large, the software will pop out a prompt to tell you that 10K data will be displayed on the page firstly.
You just need to simple click on the checkbox ahead of File name section and then all duplicate files will be chosen. After that, hit on the Delete button and then the Yes button. This software will eliminate all the selected files immediately.
Step 4: The files are deleted successfully. And you get more available space on Windows 10.
Although the system restore point can reverse your Windows 10 to the previous state effectively, it might consume GBs of the disk space, especially when there are several restore points. So, you can consider to freeing up disk space by removing all but the most recent restore point.
Step 1: Open Disk Cleanup and select the system drive.
Step 2: Click Clean up System files in the lower-left corner and choose the target disk again.
Step 3: Swith to the More Options tab and click Clean up under the System Restore and Shadow Copies section. Then, you will get the pop-out "Are you sure you want to delete all but the most recent restore point?". Just hit Delete to confirm your operation.
If the disk includes many files and installed apps that you want to keep, you can consider moving them to an external hard drive to free up some hard drive space on your Windows 10 PC.
To transfer files to another place, you can use the simple copy-and-paste. If the files are located in the Downloads folder of the system drive, then you can choose to conveniently migrate the wanted files to another drive with the help of iSunshare System Genius that is extremely helpful when you need to move a number of files.
When it's come to the installed apps, you can move the Windows store apps with system built-in Move function and use third-party tools to migrate other programs.
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