Last week I just noticed my C: drive got 9.3G free out of
97G. Recently I formatted my machine and
installed windows 7 64 bit. You won't
see two program files folders in windows 7 32 bit. Why do we need 2 folders
actually in 64 bit?
Program files is for to store 64 bit programs and Program
files (x86) is for to store any 32 bit programs which we install. Program files(x86) is very important that
allows 32 bit programs to run on the 64 bit operating system. You can't remove
either one of them as they both are essential.
Even you may notice you will have IE and IE 64 bit. But if you remove one of the IE your IE web
browser will not work properly.
So what's the solution???
Do a Disk Clean-up. I
DID and I was able to get 45G free space back. That's fantastic.
1. Go to Start/All Programs/Accessories/System Tools. Right click on Disk Clean-up and select Run
as Administrator.
2. In the Drop Down menu box select the drive you want to
clean up and click OK. The drive will be
scanned.
3. In the next window, scroll through the list of files that
can be deleted and select any additional files.
4. Select more options tab.
In the System Restore and Shadow Copies section, click the Clean-up
button and click OK.
5. Then select Delete
button. Click OK to confirm the deletion.
This will remove temporary files, backups and all other
unwanted files from the system to the latest.
Check your C: drive now, you will be HAPPY.
