Performing a regular disk-cleaning regimen frees up precious storage space and helps keep Windows 10 or 11 operating smoothly. Follow some or all of these steps to get yourself a lean, clean machine.

Here, you can see all the apps downloaded. Windows 10 allows you to arrange them by various statistics — if you have a long list, organize them by the amount of hard drive space they are taking up.

When you turn off your Windows device, it can put your open apps and open files in a large file called the hibernation cache, to help you pick up where you left off when you turn your PC on later.

With this in mind, I spoke to multiple cleaning experts to learn how to properly clean windows. Want more from NBC Select? Sign up for our newsletter, The Selection, and shop smarter.

Good news everyone, the Fall Creators Update for Windows 10 is finally here. It brings with it a whole bunch of new features and improvements to various parts of the Windows 10 experience ...

In last week’s article, How to clean up system files with the Windows 10 Disk Cleanup tool, I told you about the WinSxS folder and how it can accumulate a lot of extraneous files. I then showed ...