How to Delete Unwanted Junk Files from Computer

Over the period, your computer hard drive accumulates a lot of junk data such as zero size files, temporary files, files without extension, temp log files and other leftover by installed software. A weekly junk clean up is necessary to keep enough hard disk space in your hand otherwise you will definitely run out of disk space.

So many software developers offer free junk cleaner software such as CCleaner, Wise Disk Cleaner and DiskSweeper Free. You can download any of the software to your computer. Just search for useless files through the software and within few minutes you will find tons of junk files from your computer. Select all the files and hit Delete button.

To demonstrate, we will use DiskSweeper Free here in this article. You can safely download it from our website and install it on your computer.

Once you install DiskSweeper Free on your computer, Open the program and follow the quick steps below.

Step 1: Select the disk drive, click Search button and wait until program completes the search

Step 2: Now go through search result if required and follow next step

Step 3: Select all files (Ctrl + A) and right click; Hit Delete to Recycle Bin command.

Please make sure you know what you are doing when deleting junk files. If you accidentally delete any of the required files, you might not be able to run few programs on your computer. For example, A software might be using file extension (.log) to save important events from the software and if the file gets deleted as a temporary log file, you know what will happen. That is why, DiskSweeper Free never delete files permanently rather it will move files to Recycle Bin so that you can easily restore files if required.

To explore disk space usage in detail, you may like to try other popular software (which is not free) such as DiskAnalyzer Pro, FolderSizes etc.