No jargon. Pictures helped. Didn't match my screen. Incorrect instructions. Too technical. Not enough information. Not enough pictures. Any additional feedback? Submit feedback. Thank you for your feedback! Thanks for your feedback. Before you delete anything in a system folder you must find out what is eating your disk space. This free tool will tell you:. I know this is a fairly common question and I have seen a lot of people ask it but I have yet to see anyone include this particular detail, possibly because my search results are skewed for whatever reason Just last night, over the course of a few minutes I watched as 50 megabytes free space remaining dwindled down to 6 megabytes.
No new programs were being added, nothing was being downloaded at least to my knowledge. I opened up the Computer folder and looked at all my hard drives when I got a low disk space alert.
It was very odd as just a few days ago I had at least 10 gigabytes free, and no new programs had been installed. I have tried disk clean up and a bunch of other programs and "fixes" to this problem found all over the web, but none have solved it. This is under the "Programs" heading in the lower-left side of the list of options. Select a program. Scroll down until you find the name of the program that you want to uninstall, then click the program's name to select it. Click Uninstall. It's at the top of the window.
Follow the on-screen prompts. You'll usually have to confirm that you want to remove the program and then follow the program's uninstaller's prompts.
In some cases, you'll need to restart your computer before the program in question can be fully uninstalled. Some programs will uninstall immediately after you click Uninstall. Wait for the program to finish uninstalling. Once the uninstall process completes, you can proceed with uninstalling another program if necessary.
Use CCleaner or do it manually by browsing through your settings and deleting programs, texts, media, etc. Not Helpful 6 Helpful 8. I've upgraded from Win 7 to 10 and I need to recover a deleted desktop file containing a 3MB picture.
How can I do that? Not Helpful 12 Helpful 4. Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered. By using this service, some information may be shared with YouTube. You can always move your files onto an external hard drive to keep them without storing them on your computer. Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0. Be careful when removing programs from your computer. If you see that a program's publisher comes from your computer's manufacturer or Microsoft, leave it alone unless you know what it is.
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