Explore the untapped potential of built-in Windows tools that rival their third-party counterparts.

Disk Clean up is a utility tool of Microsoft that is primarily used to free up disk space on your computer’s hard drive. A system maintenance tool that analyzes and scans all the files that are store ...

Disk Cleanup Tool – The inbuilt tool that comes with Windows had always been used to reclaim space. It used to be handy even during regular usage or after Windows installation to delete those backup ...

Microsoft fixed an issue where the Disk Cleanup maintenance utility could cause boot failures when launching automatically after installing Windows 10, version 2004 Build 19041.21. Windows 10 includes ...

Q: Is it still necessary to use Disk Cleanup if I enable Storage Sense in Windows 10? A: Maintaining a computer isn’t something most users think about, but it’s just as important as it is for your car ...

You can delete junk files and free up disk space on your Windows 11 with the built-in Cleanup recommendations feature. To get started: Open Windows 11 Settings Click on the Storage tab Select Cleanup ...

Windows 11 KB5074105 adds a UAC prompt for Storage settings, but Settings can’t clean Windows Update files anymore.

Native and third-party tools can help you recover several GB of lost storage ...

A new program called BurnBytes has been released that merges the traditional functionality of the Microsoft Disk Cleanup utility with the aesthetics of Windows 10's Storage Sense feature. A little ...

A: The first thing to do is to determine what’s on Drive D. Is it a CD/DVD drive? A system partition? A data drive? Whichever it is, you can try using the Windows cleanup utility as you did, but this ...

Automated regular disk cleanups will speed up hard drive access on your PC, writes Windows expert and author Mitch Tulloch. The more your PC's hard disk is used, the more temporary files accumulate on ...