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Welcome to How to Liveable tutorials, my little YouTube channel where I do tutorials on whatever
I want to do at a given time and today I am showing how to make more room on your hard
drive and you want to do that with WinDirStat. It's the most wonderfully named program that
no one would remember but that's the name of it it's called the WinDirStat, it's free
you can download it off of their website. Basically, you just go to blog.windirstat.info
here's a first mirror download from triple IT, you can go there, so what you want to
do is download it and install it and it does not take very long to do that. I'm not going
to do the shortcut options, install this bad boy, correct, Run and now it will give you
a selection of your hard drives that you can run it on and decide on which one you want
to analyze and get an idea of what's on them. So I'm going to hit okay and they start getting
these little Pacman guys that go across the screen and basically what they're doing is
analyzing the percentage of hard drive space that I have free and once this is complete
it will show me all my hard drives mapped as visual images as well as everything that's
on that which is super duper helpful so I recommend doing this relatively often specially
if you are adding things to your computer, adding large file to your computer like I
do, like video files it's super, super helpful to figure out what space has been taken up
and to make more room for more projects. Okay so it's done, look at that, it's so beautiful
so anytime you click on a file here you can see exactly what the file is and where it's
located in your project which is super helpful so then you can basically just start moving
things to an external or deleting them completely. I'm not going to delete anything complete,
I'm sorry I'm not going to move anything off right now but I'm going to delete a few things
that I don't really need here so I selected a whole folder worth of stuff here that I'm
going to get rid of I'm going to delete it to the recycle bin first and this is going
to give me this warning so then very important to be aware of is there is divisions on your
hard drives showing you different areas of files. You want to stay away from anything
that is going to be a .dll file or a system file and those are pretty obvious you should
have a pretty good idea of what is a system file, by where it's located and by the extension
but if you want more information on that just let me know. Alright, we hit yes and it automatically
reorganizes your files here showing what you just got rid of which is super helpful again
here are some Premiere preview files, I don't need these so I'm just going to go ahead and
get rid of them and this time I'm going to do the no way to undelete so I don't have
to worry about that, yes, boom really helpful let me want to get rid of this as well that's
basically it that is WinDirStat. It's a really simple program to use it allows you to easily
see everything on your hard drive and makes it easy to delete stuffs. Io if you have questions,
comments leave them in the comments below, hit like or subscribe if you enjoyed this
and I appreciate you watching.