[Easy Tips] How Can I Clear My C Drive?

How can I clear my C drive?

Why does C drive become full?

C drive is usually the system disk of the computer. However, many Windows users have met the C drive is full problem. Through searching information, we concluded the possible reasons:

☎ C drive is the default storage path for downloaded files.
☎ The PC has not been cleaned for a long time, so there are junk files accumulated.
☎ Windows system and related files take up C drive space.
☎ Viruses or malware generate files that occupy space in the C drive.
☎ A large number of applications are installed.
☎ The recycle bin is full.

If you ignore the fact that the C drive becomes full, it not only hurt the hard drive, but also cause some problems in your computer, such as computer freeze. So in order to make C drive perform better, you need to know how to free up space in C drive.

4 easy methods on how can I clear my C drive

How can I clean up my C drive? Next, we'll discuss 4 easy ways to do it.

│Method 1. Empty the Recycle Bin

When you move unwanted files to the Recycle Bin, you're not completely deleting them from your PC. They will still continue to take up space on your C drive. Therefore, you can try to empty the Recycle Bin to free up space on the C drive.

Find the location of the Recycle Bin, then right-click the Recycle Bin and select "Empty Recycle Bin".

│Method 2. Compress the App installation data

When you install too many applications in the C drive, their related files may also cause the C drive to be full. So you can compress the App installation data to try to fix it. Here, we take the E drive as an example.

Step 1. Enter "file explorer" in the "Windows" search bar and press "Enter" to open it, then find out E drive. Right-click on the E drive and select "Properties".

Step 2. Under the E drive graphic, tick the "Compress this drive to save disk space" option and click "OK" to compress the App installation data.

│Method 3. Clean up Windows update files

When the C drive space is not enough, you can also check and clean up Windows update files. They are files about old Windows that stay in your PC after updating the Windows OS. If you don't need to back to the old Windows, deleting them won’t do anything bad for your PC.

Step 1. Open the Settings program in the Windows task bar, select "System" and "Storage" in turn. You can see the "Temporary files", click it.

Step 2. In the "Temporary Files" window, choose "Windows Update Cleanup" and then click "Remove files".

│Method 4. Disable System Restore

In Windows 7/8/10/11, the "System Restore" feature can help you recover system files after a computer crash. However, it also takes up a lot of space on the C drive, you can try to close it to free up space on the C drive.

Step 1. Press Windows, enter and open "Control Panel". Then click "System & Security" and "System Settings" in turn. In the new pop-up window, select the "System Protection" feature.

Step 2. In the "System Properties" window, click the "System Restore" button.

Step 3. Then you can disable the system protection.

A better solution to clean up C drive

If the previous method does not work, how can I clean out my C drive? Don't worry, we have also prepared a better tool for you—AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard.

Its "PC Cleaner" can thoroughly scan your C drive， finding and deleting all junk files on it. Just wait for a while, this powerful software will return a cleaner C drive for you.

In addition, it also contains a lot of disk managing functions, including wipe hard drive, resize partition, shred files or folders, etc.

Free Download and see how it solves "how can I clear my C drive" problem.

Step 1. Download and open AOMEI standard, click "Free up" and "PC Cleaner" in order.

Step 2. Click "Start Scan" to find out all the junk files.

Step 3. In the new popped window, choose the target junk files and click "Clean All".

Step 4. Wait for a while, when it finished the cleaning task, click "Back".

Bonus: How to get more free space on C drive

It is said that more space can be obtained, how can I clean my computer C drive deeply? In fact, you can also go to the Professional Edition to get more free space on the C drive with the following features.

★ The "Delete Large Files" function can scan and find out all large files on the C drive, helping you distinguish files that can be deleted.
★ The "Allocate free space" function can easily allocate the free space from the other drives to the C drive, extending the usable space of the C drive.

│Path 1. Delete large files in C drive

Please follow the steps below, cleaning up unnecessary large files on the C drive.

Step 1. Download and run the Demo version, click "Free up" and "Delete Large Files" in the main interface.

Step 2. Choose the C drive and click "Start Scan".

Step 3. All the large files on the C drive will be found out, choose the large files you may want to remove and click "Delete".

Step 4. Last, click "Delete Now" to start the large files removing task.

│Path 2. Allocate free space to C drive

If you want to extend C drive, please don't miss the following guide:

Step 1. In the main interface, right-click the drive with much free space and select "Allocate Free Space". (Here,we choose the D drive.)

Step 2. Set the size to allocate and chose the C drive, then click "OK".

Step 3. Click "Apply" and "Proceed" to perform thhis operation.

Note:
✍ You can also use "App mover" to migrate the application from the C drive to another drive.
✍ More advanced features like Migrate OS to SSD, SSD Secure Erase Wizard and Convert MBR to GPT are waiting for your unlocking.

Tidy up

How can I clear my C drive when it's full? This article provides 7 solutions for you. If you want to clean up your C drive quickly and safely, AOMEI Partition Assistant is worth to try.

By the way, the Server Version for Windows Server users is also available.