How do I free up disk space???

[Low Flo]

I game on a laptop and it has hardly any storage, I only have two games but I still cannot download Company Of Heroes 2 can any one help? (I don't want to uninstall any of my games)


Any help would be much appreciated

[Cathulhu]

There is no magic "enlarge disk space" button.
Delete some unneeded stuff.

[Low Flo]

ik but I have tried that and it hardly freed up any room, like is there any useless files that have high storage

[Hodman]

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[Low Flo]

thanks so much that'll come in handy but are there any free ways to free up disk space ?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

laptops usually come preinstalled with bloatware. just delete those files.

[Hanomaly]

Originally posted by Low Flo:

thanks so much that'll come in handy but are there any free ways to free up disk space ?

If you are running windows.. you can try going to your computer/this pc and then right-clicking on your harddrive (like C:) .. then pick "Properties"... then.. on the "General" tab pick "Disk Cleanup".

After clicking that it'll take a few moments for windows to go through the process of telling you what can be cleaned up.

Anyway...

*everything* in Disk Cleanup is safe to delete, altho by default not everything is checkmarked. So go through the list and checkmark everything. If you want to go further.. click the "Clean up System Files" too.

After that more check boxes should open up (where you check marked things above).
Click those new items too.

If you read all-the-words you will see a spot where it tells you "Total amount of disk space you will gain" from doing the clean up.

Then click "OK" at the very bottom.

It'll ask if you're sure you want to delete all those files. Say "Yes".. then wait for Windows to do it's thing.

Sometimes you need to reboot to get the full benefit of doing this, but even without rebooting you should still be able to free up a lot of space.


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Note, the one checkbox i never bother picking from "Disk Clean up" is the one called "Thumbnails", because Windows will literally just create those all over again soon as you open a folder on your computer with image files in it or other media files which display previews. So deleting those is only helpful for a short while. But you can still do it.

[Hanomaly]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

laptops usually come preinstalled with bloatware. just delete those files.

:qr:

This is a good point too. Laptops (and even prebuild desktops) usually come with heaps of bloatware/stuff involved that is unneeded and can be safely uninstalled.

[SpunkyJones]

you have movies or music on that laptop? if so get rid of them.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by SpunkyJones:

you have movies or music on that laptop? if so get rid of them.

if so, use usb drives or sd cards for them.

[shefboyardee]

if i were to put some stuff on to a hard drive to free up space, what should i put on it besides movies or music?

[Scoopy]

You can put music, movies and documents on a USB flash drive or an external hard drive. Or you can get a new hard drive or ssd and clone the drive you're using now to it.

[Low Flo]

thanks

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