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2. What does "free up disk space" mean — and how do you fix it?

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   Use the Disk Cleanup function on Windows. Windows has a built-in feature that helps you free up disk space; it’s called Disk Cleanup. Just click the Start button and then search for it by name.

3. Disk Cleanup - Wikipedia

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   Disk Cleanup (cleanmgr.exe) is a computer maintenance utility included in Microsoft Windows designed to free up disk space. It was introduced in Windows 98 and has been a part of Microsoft Windows ever since. In 2018, Microsoft introduced a second cleanup utility 'Storage Sense' in the Settings app with Windows 10 version 1803, but Disk Cleanup ...

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   Download System Mechanic to help repair and speed up your slow PC. Try it free* for 30 days now. ... regains thousands of megabytes of hard disk space! ... your PC’s hard drive for faster ...

5. CCleaner - Wikipedia

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   The program includes a registry cleaner to locate and correct problems in the Windows registry, such as missing references to shared DLLs, unused registration entries for file extensions, and missing references to application paths. [9] CCleaner 2.27 and later can wipe the MFT free space of a drive, or the entire drive.

6. File system fragmentation - Wikipedia

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   Each file is using 10 blocks of space. (Here, the block size is unimportant.) The remainder of the disk space is one free block. Thus, additional files can be created and saved after the file E. If the file B is deleted, a second region of ten blocks of free space is created, and the disk becomes fragmented.

7. Defragmentation - Wikipedia

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   Defragmentation is advantageous and relevant to file systems on electromechanical disk drives (hard disk drives, floppy disk drives and optical disk media). The movement of the hard drive's read/write heads over different areas of the disk when accessing fragmented files is slower, compared to accessing the entire contents of a non-fragmented ...