How to get FREE space in Windows?

Here is great tutorial for the people, who has lower Disk Space like 40 GB......

Most of us face Lower Disk Space problem many times. Windows notifies us about the lower disk space and we are forced to delete some useless files or to resize the partition to get some free space.

Following are some ways to get lots of free space:

1) First thing is to use windows built-in "Disk Cleanup" application. You can right-click on a drive in My Computer and select "Properties" now click on "Disk Cleanup" button. Now select all given options, like "Downloaded Program Files", "Temporary Internet Files", "Compress old files", etc. Believe me you can get more than 1GB FREE space after using Disk Cleanup coz once I got approx. 1.5GB more FREE space after running Disk Cleanup
Alternatively you can run "Disk Cleanup" directly from RUN dialog box by giving "cleanmgr.exe" command.

2) Now open Windows Search and copy paste following code in Search box and perform a search:

mscreate.dir;whatsnew.*;*.tmp;*.log;*log.txt;*read me.txt;file_id.diz;tips.txt;*.bak;*.old;*.syd;*.pr v;*.grp;*.gid;*.fts;*.cnt;*.~mp




All above mentioned files are usually useless and you'll get 100s of files after searching, simply select all and press +

3) You can also disable WFP (Windows File Protection) service using WFP Patcher. This service runs in background and checks for system files' status, and whenever it finds a system file has been changed/modified, it replaces the file with the original file stored in "DLLcache" folder. So we can disable this service and can get lots of FREE space.
After disabling the service, open "%windir%\System32\DLLCache" folder (it'll be HIDDEN & System Folder, so copy paste the path in address bar and press ). Now you can safely delete all files present in this folder It'll make aprrox. 1GB FREE space
I always disable this service coz it always irritates me while hacking system files in my lovely Resource Hacker.

4) Open "System Properties" by right-click on "My Computer" icon on Desktop and select "Properties", now goto "System Restore" tab and select "Turn Off System Restore on all drives" option and apply it. Don?t use this trick if u use System Restore

5) You can delete several BMP files in %windir% (Windows) folder, which r used as wallpapers in Desktop Properties. You can also delete all files in %windir%\Web\Wallpaper folder, all files in this folder are also used as wallpapers.

6) You can also empty TEMP (just type "TEMP" in RUN dialog box), Prefetch (in %windir% folder) folders to get free space.

7) Disable Hibernation from "Power Settings" (powercfg.cpl), if u don't use this feature.

8) You can also delete all video files present in %windir%\system32\oobe\images folder, these files are used when windows runs for the first time after installation

9) Empty Temporary Internet files of ur browser to get some free space.


You can apply all above mention methods to get lots of FREE space without any problem, all these methods hv been checked by me many times and I always use them after a fresh installation of my windows.

You can also use 3rd party Utilities, like Tuneup Utility, System Mechanic, etc to FREE some space but these utilities also use most of the above mentioned techniques like 1), 2), 6), 8)