Inspiron 14 How to Free C Drive Disk Space

Disk Cleanup:

1. Click on the Yellow folder(File Explorer) at the bottom of the page.

2. Click on "This PC"

3. Right click "OS(C)" drive, click "Properties".

4. Click "Disk Cleanup"

Thank you for your disk cleanup posting; I have been doing this since I day I purchased my Inspiron, and unfortunately, this has not solved the problem of providing me with more drive space on my C drive.  Thank you, again!

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You can also check Storage usage - System (Display, notifications, apps, power):

1. Click " Storage "

2. This PC(C)

3. Temporary files. Please post back what you see on this page.....

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Uninstall all Apps and features that you don't need - especially the one's that using up a lot of space. Please follow steps below:

1. Click "Settings "

2. System (Display, notifications, apps, power)

3. Apps & features

4. Click on one of them, you should see the option to move or uninstall

5. Stroll down to the bottom of the page, click on Programs & Features, uninstall any programs that you don't need.......

Note: Before uninstalling, I recommend you buy a 1GB Seagate external drive at you nearest Walmart or local store. You can backup your files, photos, music and create a system image of the C drive.

Thank you for trying to help me again for my problem!  I have also tried this. Under storage, it says 28.2 GB is used out of 28.5 GB on my C drive.  When I go to Apps & features, the largest App is MS Office Home and Student 2013 at 1.32 GB; then Google Chrome at 466 MB.  Adding up the file capacity of all of the Apps listed comes up to about 3 GB!  So, this did not unfortunately help solve my problem, either.

Turning off system restore should help:

www.pcworld.com/.../how-to-turn-on-system-restore-in-windows-10-to-protect-against-bad-updates.html

You can defragment your hard drive or run the check disk utility. Defragmenting is a simple way to eliminate empty blocks and put file back together. To defragment your hard drive opens up Properties Windows and select Tools. After that click on “Defragment Now”, this will also make system faster.

If this doesn’t work that run the check disk utility and to run the Check disk utility go to Error-checking section and press the Check not Button. This is easily to run and regularly running this utility can significantly reduce the risk of problems related to Disk.

To know more visit this: 13 PC Maintenance Tasks that You Should Not Forget!

Good Luck!!!

Hi, did you ever have any luck with this? I have the exact same problem. I've actually taken all of the files off mine and only have 2305MB-worth of programmes but apparently 26.7GB of 28GB being taken up.

While the suggested solutions (disk cleanup, uninstall of unused software, defragmenting, turning off system restore, removing data on external drives) could free some space, these are all temporary measures. Your disk C: is obviously too small and restrictive. Do you have other storage (disk D:?) if so, you may want to look into tools for modifying partition sizes. If not (hard to believe), cloning the current drive to a bigger disk could help.

I had done this already, and did not have any APPS installed on my laptop to begin with, so thank you for this suggestion.

Thank you for this suggestion, which I had tried already, and it did not solve my problem.

Thank you!  The best answer I have ever received to this very simple, straight-forward question, and I appreciate it!

I had done this already, and it did not help.  Thank you for this suggestion.