From the course: Windows 11 for IT Support: Troubleshooting Basics (2022)
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Cleaning up the hard disk - Windows Tutorial
From the course: Windows 11 for IT Support: Troubleshooting Basics (2022)
Cleaning up the hard disk
- [Instructor] Sometimes when you have a system which is running slow or maybe giving you certain intermittent problems, the issue could be that you are running low on free disk space. So let's talk about how we might be able to go ahead and clean up our hard disk to make a little bit more space. So there's a few things I want to show you. The first is a very simple one and that is one that's very commonly known which is just simply emptying the Recycle Bin, right? In the upper left hand corner here, you'll see the Recycle Bin. The fact that there's little pieces of paper up there means that there's stuff in there. If I want to empty it, I just simply right click and say Empty Recycle Bin. Now, I'm not going to do that because I want the Recycle Bin still full to show you another area of cleanup but this would be the first thing I would do. The next thing I want to do, I need to go ahead and open up our File Explorer…
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Working with the Reliability Monitor5m 51s
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Using the Steps Recorder5m 33s
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Using the Security and Maintenance Console6m 11s
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Working with troubleshooters4m 35s
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Cleaning up the hard disk4m 50s
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An introduction to the Event Viewer7m 52s
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An introduction to performance monitoring5m 24s
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What is slowing down the system?5m 5s
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