How To Clean Up Hard Drive Space With CleanMyPC

The hard drives are available in various sizes. Usually, we think that the bigger the size of the hard drive, the better is the storage space. But even if your hard drive is quite big in size, you are always short of enough space. You cannot stop yourself from watching HD movies only because of less space.

But you can definitely remove the unnecessary junk from the hard drives. For this, you require a reliable and easy-to-use method that can scan the unnecessary files from your computer and delete these quickly.

CleanMyPC is a method which can be used for this purpose. Here we discuss the functions of CleanMyPC.

CleanMyMac has CleanMyPC as its Windows version. It scans the unnecessary files from your computer. Various useful features are offered by this software which make the computer work effectively. When you use this software, you must check all the files which you are removing to ensure that you do not remove anything important.

Scanning & Cleaning

As soon as you install CleanMyPC, it is ready to scan. Start the process of scanning. It will search for logs, caches, extra languages, help files etc.

The scan will take some time. In case you do not want the software to do an entire scan of the documents, select a single category. Click it. The scan will be performed for that category only.

Certain files are found by CleanMyPC and these are displayed in a list. You can view the list and select the files you wish to remove. However, all the items are not deleted automatically byCleanMyPC.

The screenshot below shows that the system restore data has been found by the software but the files are not checked by default. Therefore, there is no chance of losing the data.

With a complete scan, you can get to know the amount of wasted space your computer has. It gives you an option to remove the junk files at once.

You can see the category which is cleaned by CleanMyPC. It also displays the space saved from cleaning every category.

You must note that the recycled data is cleaned by CleanMyPC by default. It cleans recycle binautomatically. You can control the settings by going to preferences.

Utilities

CleanMyPC offers some very useful features. Paid version of CleanMyPC offers most of these features. It has a registry maintenance tool which is available for free.

Registry issues are detected and a scan is performed by these utilities for the extensions, plugins, installed programs and the files on startup. The actions to be taken for these results can be manually decided by you. For example, the applications can be removed from the autorun list by the program.

There is a Secure Erase feature in CleanMyPC. This deletes the unnecessary files permanently.