How to Delete Items on Your Computer That You Don't Want to Part With
Do you have so many items on your computer that it's hard to find what you're looking for? Are many useless, old files that you don't want to part with slowing down your computer? Well, keep reading to fix that! Look at every file you...
Method 1 of 2:
Organizing and Deleting
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Picture 1 of How to Delete Items on Your Computer That You Don't Want to Part With Look at every file you have. You should probably make a single folder to hold all the items. Go through the default folders (e.g. if you have Windows check "My Documents") and move all the items there. -
Picture 2 of How to Delete Items on Your Computer That You Don't Want to Part With Create a folder for important items, so you won't accidentally delete them.And keep them on other partition, other than the partition in which OS resides(In Windows). Examples of important items include: credit card information, tax information, etc. -
Picture 3 of How to Delete Items on Your Computer That You Don't Want to Part With Separate the remaining files into folders based on when you last looked at them. Example folder names: 1 month ago, 2 months ago, etc. -
Picture 4 of How to Delete Items on Your Computer That You Don't Want to Part With Delete files you haven't used in a long time. Just delete them all. You won't need them. Your computer will thank you. -
Picture 5 of How to Delete Items on Your Computer That You Don't Want to Part With Alternate Methods AKA ways to not delete items you don't want to part with: -
Picture 6 of How to Delete Items on Your Computer That You Don't Want to Part With Package files you don't use often into RAR archives. This will compress your old files to a smaller size. -
Picture 7 of How to Delete Items on Your Computer That You Don't Want to Part With Take backup of data on regular basis on external storage devices. -
Picture 8 of How to Delete Items on Your Computer That You Don't Want to Part With Spend some money and buy a new hard drive. -
Picture 9 of How to Delete Items on Your Computer That You Don't Want to Part With In the future, clearly name files and don't give them abbreviated names which you may forget the meaning of. You can make a folder of things that you will need for a little while, and delete things from here when you "spring clean".
Method 2 of 2:
Deleting Favorites
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Picture 10 of How to Delete Items on Your Computer That You Don't Want to Part With Go on favorites. -
Picture 11 of How to Delete Items on Your Computer That You Don't Want to Part With Right click on a file. -
Picture 12 of How to Delete Items on Your Computer That You Don't Want to Part With Click delete. -
Picture 13 of How to Delete Items on Your Computer That You Don't Want to Part With Repeat until you deleted all the useless files.
Update 24 March 2020
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