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hey guys so today I'm here with a quick tutorial showing you how to clear up extra harddrive space on your Windows computer so actually if I'll go ahead and show you guys here I'll notice this morning that my hard drive is practically full right now so figured it'd be a good idea to clear it up and while I'm doing it make a video and show you guys some of the methods I like to do we know you're getting full you don't have to start deleting all your files so there's the first thing I'm going to be doing is disabling hibernation mode now hibernation mode is a sort of in-between between shutting it off and putting it to sleep that stores all the data on your RAM to the hard drive now this is nice it will allow you to boot up a little bit faster so you need to you know have your computer totally off you need to remove the battery or something like that but in my opinion it's really not super necessary and of course because of that you know it stores all your data from your RAM typically however however much RAM you have on your computer is how much of a block on the hard drive it takes so my case I have four gigabytes of RAM and I'd love to have that four gigabytes back so it's going to be really simple so the first thing is is go ahead and open up your search and type in CMD now once you find that you should have cmd.exe right click it and click run as administrator we'll go ahead and click yes here and then we'll pull up the command prompt now at this point you're going to need to put one thing in now of course we'll have it in the description so what you need to do is type in power CFG all one word space dash H space off so as you guys can see there just type it in like that or of course I'll have it in the description click enter give it a second and we're good to go now all we need to is close it down if we check our hard drive one more time it will show now we have six gigs left as opposed to that three so just that simply we did disable hibernation mode we can't use it anymore but I think it's a fair trade for getting a couple of gigabytes back on a hard drive the second method that I like to use to keep my computer nice and clean is to download CCleaner now CCleaner is a fantastic application I made many videos on before there really keeps your computer nice and clean now if you'd like to download it I will have link in the description I will take you to this page now I do want to mention one thing you'll see this Buy in down buy online and download you can ignore that that and it's only if you need priority support you scroll down here there are going to be two links click on either these and it is entirely free so just want to clear this up this is a free program there's an option to buy it but you don't have to do that whatsoever so anyway once you have the computer the program rather downloaded you'll see it should look very similar to this now there are two ways to clutter off stuff from your hard drive now the first is to run the cleaner now what this does is it clears out extra junk on your hard drive so for example Internet Explorer has temporary Internet files etc etc I don't either there's a huge thumbnail cache on Windows and I have stuff in your recycle bin temporary files there's a lot of stuff that can just you know just extra jump files that can be sitting around on your computer edition CCleaner also will clear up extra third-party applications so if you have Firefox installed it might be some junk on there you can clear off well I do recommend like for example Firefox is your main browser don't have it clear your internet history if you don't want that but I'll just go through here and delete what you want of course as you guys can see here it does cover quite a few applications and then once you're ready to see what it's going to do you click analyze and it will take just a minute to go through as you can see here I run this quite often so all you have 85 megabytes but I want to do that so we'll run cleaner it should delete it really quickly here and there you go I removed eighty six megabytes that's not a big deal but like I said I run this quite often so more than likely than that you'll have a lot more than that I know the last thing and this is a little bit obvious but I do want to show you guys is just uninstall programs now you'd be surprised how often you might have some old program that you don't need or for whatever reason you know that you didn't realize that you had then another program installed it so for example I like I said I've keep this pretty clean but you guys might have something like perhaps you don't want QuickTime anymore or maybe you download Safari once and you don't use anymore there's a lot of things that you can do and using C cleaner you can just pick out whatever you like click run an uninstaller and it should clear it up and save a little bit more harddrive space so anyway guys that's about it I hope you guys enjoyed this video and helped you to get 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