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How to Safely Clean Junk Files in Windows 10

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It is a good habit to clean temporary and junk files in Windows. As it can free up your disk space and improve your computer performance. In this article, we will show you how to safely find and clean junk files in windows 7,8.1 and windows 10

Manually finding and deleting temporary and other junk files from your computer is a daunting task.

What are Junk Files?

Junk files are files left behind by programs that fail to uninstall completely. Add to it, temporary internet files, log files, short cuts which don’t point anywhere.

Add to it temporary files created by the windows system itself. Overtime these junk files accumulate and chokes your system. Taking up your valuable hard disk space, which sometimes may run in to many GBs.

Windows built-in disk clean up to some extent helps to find and delete junk files. But not completely. There are dedicated standalone software made to do just that, to find and safely clean junk files in windows and speed up your computer.

Wise Disk Cleaner is a FREEWARE, designed to help you find and delete junk files from the windows system. This freeware comes pre-configured with about 50 different file types extensions, that can easily be considered as junk files.

Over and above you can also add your own file types in the junk file category.

Wise Disk Cleaner is also designed to find temporary files, history, cookies, and autocomplete form history of Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari browsers. And also finds and deletes junk files, created by windows, Recycle Bin, Recent Documents, Temporary files, and Log files.

This freeware tool does, a lot more than most similar products and includes a “slim down” mode that gets rid of a lot of extraneous objects including wallpapers and other Windows files you may never use. A disk defrag feature is also included for free.

Safely Clean Junk Files in Windows

There are two ways in which you can find and delete junk files. If you are a beginner, you may use the wizard and use the program’s default settings to clean-up your system. Which is the safest way. But if you are an advanced user, you can customize the search operation.

For example, you can manually select folders to be cleaned-up, you can erase files with certain extensions, exclude folders from the scan, etc. When deleting files, you can either choose to delete or erase them forever.

In case you are not sure about them, you can delete them to Recycle Bin. Using this freeware program is indeed easy. It also works fast when both scanning for files and deleting files.

Verdict:

Wise Disk Cleaner Free is completely free. Anyone can download it for free and enjoy the free automatic updates and technical support by email. Better yet, Wise Disk Cleaner is a small and absolutely virus-free program that consumes very little system resource.

You can set Wise Disk Cleaner to clean the disk on a daily, weekly, or monthly schedule according to your own need. Wise Disk Cleaner will automatically clean up the useless files in the background when the scheduled time is up.

Quick Specs

File size:4.17MB
Price: Free
Operating system: Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10

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