User's Manual

Free up disk space
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consume large amounts of space and, until now, went undetected by any standard
"cleaner".
Particular attention is paid to securitywhen disk space. This means that, unlike with
conventional methods, which comb through the disk "blindly" according to particular
patterns, there are no nasty surprises like sudden error messages or software failing to run.
The items that are suggested for cleanup are clearly identified, concisely explained and put
into one of the following four categories.
Unnecessary files and backups
In this category, all files that can be deleted without a second thought are displayed. This
allows you to quickly free up disk space. These include temporary files, the contents of the
browser cache, temporary thumbnail views and automatically generated log files. This
category also displays files that are normally used to restore your system to an earlier
state. These include restore points, Windows Update backups and the contents of the
Recycle Bin. If your system is working fine and you do not want to restore recently deleted
files or folders, you can free up space by deleting these backups.
Windows functions
Windows installs many standard features that can quickly consume several gigabytes of
space. You can deactivate especially space-hungry features in order to free up space.
These include the power save mode "Hibernation file", which permanently reserves the
amount of disk space equivalent to your system's memory.