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As you know, if there are too many dispensable documents, cache data and other junk files in the hard drives, the computer performance will be badly influenced. So it is important to clean hard drives regularly and even frequently. At this moment, you may be mostly concerned about how to clean them easily but effectively. And this text will tell you how to use Disk Cleanup/Disk Defragmenter/iSunshare System Genius to clean the hard drive in Windows 8/8.1.
Step 1: Open Disk Cleanup.
You can open it according to the following procedures.
Step 2: Select a hard drive you want to clean up.
As the following window opens, click the down arrow to choose a hard drive and then tap OK to go on.
Step 3: Wait for the program to calculate how much space you will be able to free on the chosen disk.
Step 4: Select the files you want to delete.
As the following window turns up, check the boxes before the files you would like to remove from your computer, and tap OK to continue.
Step 5: Deleting the files permanently.
Click Delete Files to remove them permanently.
Step 6: Wait patiently for the cleanup process to finish.
Step 1: Open Disk Defragmenter.
To open it, you can follow the procedures below.
Step 2: Change the settings of a hard drive.
When the Optimize Drives interface emerges, select a hard drive in the list and click Change settings on the lower right.
Step 3: Adjust the frequency to optimize the drive.
In the following window, tap the down arrow to choose an optimization frequency from Daily, Weekly and Monthly, and then click OK.
With this method, the Disk Defragmenter will optimize your hard drives regularly.
Step 1: Install iSunshare System Genius on your Windows 8/8.1 computer.
iSunshare System Genius is the junk-file remover designed for Windows OS, which can easily delete the useless files from cache data to invalid registry entries. Therefore, using System Genius is also a good way to clean up disk space in Windows 8/8.1.
Step 2: Scan out all junk files.
Launch the tool. Then in the user interface, choose Clean All function and hit Scan in the right panel to find out junk files.
Step 3: Clean up junk files.
After the scanning process completes, you can select the unwanted files and simply erase them by clicking Clean.
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