How to clean up your appdata?

[WhatComesAround]

Hey everyone,

So I have had something bothering me for a while now. I do a lot of work on my PC and no matter what I always had a decline in storage space. I cleared up some files till I had 30GB on my HDD (OS HDD) and after some work it lowered to 18 even though I clean up after I am done (delete my work permanently). So my question was where is my storage space going? Then I found the appdata folder which I thought may be where everything is going, and it was. The appdata folder is MASSIVE and it's only growing. So my question is how do I safely clean up all my unwanted well... app data? I saw on another forum that I should use ccleaner but how effective is it? Can I just delete the whole of appdata? What would happen if I did? Any help will be much appreciated as usual. Thanks again mah doots. 

[gbergeron]

Just now, WhatComesAround said:

Hey everyone,

So I have had something bothering me for a while now. I do a lot of work on my PC and no matter what I always had a decline in storage space. I cleared up some files till I had 30GB on my HDD (OS HDD) and after some work it lowered to 18 even though I clean up after I am done (delete my work permanently). So my question was where is my storage space going? Then I found the appdata folder which I thought may be where everything is going, and it was. The appdata folder is MASSIVE and it's only growing. So my question is how do I safely clean up all my unwanted well... app data? I saw on another forum that I should use ccleaner but how effective is it? Can I just delete the whole of appdata? What would happen if I did? Any help will be much appreciated as usual. Thanks again mah doots. 

Many important data in that folder, do not delete.

You can just go in start menu, type disk cleanup

 

then just clean the c: or any drtive you want, make sure to checkmark "clean old windows update files" and check mark all the ones once you loaded the disk cleanup

 

 

[WhatComesAround]

3 minutes ago, gbergeron said:

Many important data in that folder, do not delete.

You can just go in start menu, type disk cleanup

 

then just clean the c: or any drtive you want, make sure to checkmark "clean old windows update files" and check mark all the ones once you loaded the disk cleanup

 

 

Thanks man, but there is no option for me that's "clean old windows update files". Can I checkmark "temporary files", "system errors and crash dumps"  too? It's like 21 GB right there.

[gbergeron]

1 minute ago, WhatComesAround said:

Thanks man, but there is no option for me that's "clean old windows update files". Can I checkmark "temporary files", "system errors and crash dumps"  too? It's like 21 GB right there.

Give me 10 min ill picture you just busy for 5-10 miin brb

[gbergeron]

5 minutes ago, WhatComesAround said:

Thanks man, but there is no option for me that's "clean old windows update files". Can I checkmark "temporary files", "system errors and crash dumps"  too? It's like 21 GB right there.

[gbergeron]

Click on clean up system files first, then checkjmark all the boxes, no risk here, only useless files will be deleted.

Cheers. Possible you can a message " are you sure you want to delete old windows files bla bla " just click ok.

[WhatComesAround]

Just now, gbergeron said:

Click on clean up system files first, then checkjmark all the boxes, no risk here, only useless files will be deleted.

Cheers. Possible you can a message " are you sure you want to delete old windows files bla bla " just click ok.

Thank you VERY much. I really appreciate it.

[gbergeron]

Also no need to download Ccleanrer, it does the same thing, plus other "advanced" options that normal use rs should not touch...

 

Also they got infected by a malware recently and hundreds of thousands of people got infected so just stay away you dont need it, the clean up disk option does the exact same job

[gbergeron]

Just now, WhatComesAround said:

Thank you VERY much. I really appreciate it.

We're here for that cya buddy