You may only want to use a Windows built-in tool to clean up the disk space on your PC.

The internal hard drive on the computer has a space limit.

When you save more and more files on the drive, the available space will become less and less.

select the target drive

The system drive (usually drive C:) is the same.

Is there a built-in cleaner in Windows 10 or Windows 11?

Of course, yes.

Disk Cleanup is calculating

Windows has built-inDisk CleanupandStorage Senseto help free up disk space.

It is designed to free up disk space on a computers hard drive.

The Disk Cleanup app should be the first search result.

files to delete

you gotta click it to open it.

Step 2: ExpandDrives, then opt for drive you want to free up space.

Here, we snag the C: drive.

click Delete Files

This will help you clean up system files.

Then, you will see an interface pops up, with aFiles to deletelist.

you’re free to see which kinds of files are detected and can be removed.

Disk Cleanup is cleaning up

you could check the files you want to delete, then clickOKto continue.

Step 4: Click theDelete Filesbutton to confirm the operation.

Step 5: The Disk Cleanup utility will begin to clean up unnecessary files on the C: drive.

click Clean up system files

you’re free to wait until the process finishes.

After that, your selected unnecessary files will be removed.

You will get some free space on the C: drive.

you’re able to repeat the above steps to free up space for other drives if necessary.

Here we go:

Step 1: Click theClean up system filesbutton in Disk Cleanup.

Step 2: choose the file types to remove.

Step 3: ClickOK.

you’ve got the option to also use it torelease OneDrive space.

Of course, you could also manually delete unwanted files from your box to get more free space.

Seehow to recover deleted files.