How to clean up Hard Drive from junk that accumulates? Win10

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Dec 20th, 2019 11:17 am

dazz [OP]: Deal Fanatic; Dec 10, 2004; 6495 posts; 2205 upvotes; Vancouver

Dec 20th, 2019 11:17 am

How to clean up Hard Drive from junk that accumulates? Win10

Is there an alternative other than a clean reinstall of Windows 10? Last install was 2 years ago with lots of apps and as you all know, once you delete them, often pieces are still left in the registry as well as program files as well as in AppData. Seems like I am missing about 30gb of space based on what I had 2 years ago when I just installed all of these apps.
So, I am wondering if there is perhaps a program that can help to find those and clean those out? I tried a couple back 5-7 years ago and none of them worked well.

I use voice typing, expect mistakes...

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Dec 20th, 2019 12:26 pm

gr8dlr: Deal Guru; Sep 1, 2005; 12091 posts; 6981 upvotes; Markham

Dec 20th, 2019 12:26 pm

I'm not a techie. There's the old CCleaner.

We're all bozos on the bus until we find a way to express ourselves...

Failure is always an option...just not the preferred one!

Dec 20th, 2019 1:24 pm

dazz [OP]: Deal Fanatic; Dec 10, 2004; 6495 posts; 2205 upvotes; Vancouver

Dec 20th, 2019 1:24 pm

gr8dlr wrote: ↑ I'm not a techie. There's the old CCleaner.

Unfortunately that one is not very good. It's ok for basic stuff,but I hoped there's something more advanced

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Dec 20th, 2019 1:53 pm

lead: Deal Guru; Nov 21, 2002; 10205 posts; 2610 upvotes; Winnipeg

Dec 20th, 2019 1:53 pm

wise disk cleaner I think even offers freeing up space like update zips etc. read about https://www.bleachbit.org/ too but i still use ccleaner for registry cleaning and have never had it screw up anything by using the reg cleaner after an uninstall of programs. but I wager those other 2 are probably better cleaners.

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Dec 20th, 2019 2:11 pm

rabbit: Deal Guru; Jun 27, 2004; 12932 posts; 2224 upvotes; Vancouver.bc.ca

Dec 20th, 2019 2:11 pm

I go through directories sometimes and manually delete crap. You have to know what you're doing, of course, but when in doubt, just prepend the directory with "NUKE" or something, and if everything still runs great, delete it.

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Dec 20th, 2019 2:22 pm

death_hawk: Deal Expert; Aug 22, 2006; 27311 posts; 13000 upvotes

Dec 20th, 2019 2:22 pm

Why not just wipe it?

It's also the perfect opportunity to install fresh, install anything you 100% know you're going to keep, get all the settings right, then image the thing for the next time this happens.

Dec 20th, 2019 11:43 pm

Mtnviewer: Member; Apr 9, 2012; 455 posts; 346 upvotes

Dec 20th, 2019 11:43 pm

Learn to use Windows 10's installed Disk Clean - 2 modes, CCleaner & Revo Uninstaller free.

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