Windows Disk Cleanup - how to delete the data

Your PC accumulates numerous files over time. Sometimes this is noticeable by your PC slowing down. It is therefore worth performing a disk cleanup to track down files that you no longer need and then delete them.

How to perform a disk cleanup in Windows

If you have too many files on your PC, you may consider performing a disk cleanup in Windows. This will delete all files, including hidden ones, from your disk.

1. To delete temporary Internet files and so on, you must first navigate to your PC's Control Panel.
2. Then go to "Administrative Tools" and then "Disk Cleanup". Should you go through the category view, you must first click on "System and Security".
3. Now you can select the drive you want to clean up.
4. Followed by all the files that you no longer need, searched and displayed in a list.
5. Now you can again mark which of the found files you want to delete.
6. Confirm with "Delete files", the process is performed.
7. If you want to clean up the system files, select "Clean up system files" instead of "Delete files" at this point.
8. Followed by enter your administrator password and confirm again.
9. Now you have to select again the drive that should be cleaned up.
10. Now you will be shown in the list the system files that are no longer needed.