System disk cleanup (part 1)

Once a month I run out of free space at disk C: and everytime it's harder and harder to find what is safe to delete. I decided to create a list of temporary stuff which is safe to delete, and a list of utilities I'm using.

Before you start to delete files -  it's a good idea to find out first who ate all the disk space. So you'll be sure you concentrated on the big files and folders. And get the required free disk space much faster ;)

Personally, I would recommend a great utility to visualise the disk usage - WinDirStat. It's open source software and hosted at SourceForge.net, free to use, small, fast and pretty simple - start it and select a disk drive you would like to analyze. In a minute you will have a tree of folders sorted by size. In addition it has "treemap" feature which gives you visual feeling of what and how is big.

Try it. I bet you'll find a lot of unused stuff.

This is a first part of "System Disk Cleanup" series.

 

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