“CLEAN UP ON DRIVE C”

It’s that time of the year. Time to go through your hard drive and toss out all the unneeded junk you don’t need and probably forgot you had.

The video with timestamps:

00:00 Intro
00:58 Delete Recyclebin and downloads folder after checking them. (Ctrl+A, Shift+Delete)
01:53 Run disk clean up with System Files for all drives.
03:55 Restore point, delete old one and set max to just 2%, or disable the feature.
05:56 Storage Sense can be used for file deletion automatization as well as storing new media files elsewhere.
08:46 Manual cleanup, Delete files in %temp% and run (Win+R) “temp” C:\Windows\Temp and delete them too. Run “prefetch”, check file size and if large delete them all. Delete old versions of windows update if you don’t need to revert C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download
11:25 Check the size of your search index and rebuild index: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows make it smaller via settings and rebuild, don’t make it index properties as well
14:53 Disable Reserved Storage on Windows 10, powershell admin, will get arround +7gb extra after the next update:
Type the following command to confirm if the feature is enabled and press Enter:
Get-WindowsReservedStorageState
Type the following command to disable the feature and press Enter:
Set-WindowsReservedStorageState -State disabled
Clear out Microsoft Store junk with this command: WSReset.exe (PowerShell admin)
17:00 Clear nvidia cache C:\ProgramData\NVIDIA Corporation\NV_Cache
17:49 Move music, documents and video folder to another drive to free up space on C: drive.
19:37 Check WinDirStat for other big files and see if you want to delete them: https://windirstat.net/
21:28 CClean uninstaller is better, uninstall applications you don’t use and use CCleaner to clean system and registry: https://www.ccleaner.com/
26:49 Conclusion