[Useful Guide] How to Free Up Disk Space on PC
About how to free up disk space on PC
No matter it is HDD or SSD, insufficient disk space has always plagued all computer users. When you receive low disk space warning, you need to take some measures to free up disk space timely. Otherwise, insufficient disk space will make the computer run very slowly, or even crash, which greatly affects the user experience.
How do you free up disk space on PC? Generally speaking, most people will try the methods that come with Windows, such as emptying the recycle bin, deleting unnecessary files, uninstalling unnecessary programs, using Disk cleanup to remove temporary files, or opening Storage Sense on Windows 10, etc.
However, when you try these methods, you will find that they are not completely effective. Your disk may still not have much space to keep your computer running smoothly.
How to free up disk space on Windows 11, 10, 8, and 7
To completely free up disk space, the most you need is a reliable tool. Please read on to find out all information about it.
▶ Option 1. Remove junk files
Qiling Disk Master Standard is a free and safe disk partition management software, compatible with Windows 11, 10, 8, and 7. It provides many excellent features to help you solve disk partition issues effectively. Among them, the "PC Cleaner" feature allows cleaning up all junk files on the target disk, including system junk files and registry junk files. Please download this freeware to see how to free up disk space on Windows PC.
▶ Option 2. Delete large files
In addition to junk files, you probably have many large files on your disk that you don't use often. Since they hide so deeply, it is difficult to find and remove them manually.
Fortunately, after turning to Qiling Disk Master Professional, its "Delete Large Files" can automatically scan the target disk or folder for large files, and list all files larger than 16MB. You can delete the corresponding large files according to your needs to free up disk space. Please download it to see how to free up disk space on PC.
Tip: It will mark system-related files and bootloader-related files in red to remind you to be cautious when handling them.
▶ Option 3. Move apps to another drive
Is there any way to free up disk space? With the help of Qiling Disk Master Pro, you can also move installed applications from one drive to another without reinstalling.
Extend C drive via Allocate Free Space feature
After figuring out how do you free up disk space on a computer, I will also introduce you to a way to extend the C drive. "Allocate Free Space" supports allocating the excess space of one drive to the destination drive to achieve the purpose of expanding the space. Let's see how it works.
Step 1. Open it and you will see enough free space on drive D. Right click it and choose the button "Allocate Free Space".
Step 2. The following picture will show up. It will give you the detail. Choose the size and destination drive you want.
Step 3. If all the operations are right, please click "Proceed" to commit.
Sum up
This is the full guide on how to free up disk space on PC. This article provides three methods to free up disk space, and a method to expand drive space is also mentioned, you can choose a method you like.
Qiling Disk Master Pro has more features waiting for you to unlock, such as cloning a smaller drive to a larger drive, wiping a hard drive for reuse, converting MBR to GPT without losing data, etc.
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