Over time, Windows 11 can accumulate a lot of old, unnecessary files on your PC hard drive. Disk cleanup can help here. This is how you start it.
You actually have a large hard drive, but for some reason you often lack storage space on your Windows 11 PC? It might help to run Disk Cleanup every now and then.
With Disk Cleanup you can clean any physical disk or a pool of disks. You can choose which type of files should be deleted. Among other things, recycle bin files and old system files can be removed. In total, several gigabytes of storage space can often be freed up.
In the following we will show you step by step how you can run the tool on your PC.
Finished! The cleanup process will now start and the selected files will be deleted. You can repeat this process every few months to free up even more space.
Especially after a Windows update, you can use a trick to free up storage space.
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