How to Remove Clutter From a Hard Drive

Video Transcript

"Hi. My name is Dave Andrews. Today, I'm going to show you how to remove clutter from a hard drive. To begin, let's go to the start menu. Just open up "My Computer". As you can see, my hard disk is about halfway full. There's lots of files that can probably be removed, and I can get that hard drive down to maybe a quarter and just remove a lot of clutter that I don't need from my hard drive. Let's open it up and go into a folder. This is a bunch of files that I don't really need. To remove them, we can select each one and just drag it to the recycle bin. We can select groups of items that we know we don't need and drag to the recycle bin. For anything that we would like to keep, we can keep it. And a good place to place it is under the start menu, under documents. This is called your "My Documents" area. And it's files that are very important to you that you would like to keep. If we wanted to keep one of these documents that were cluttering up our hard drive, just hold your mouse over it, click and hold it down, and just drag it into the "My Documents" area. That document is now with our other important documents that we'd like to keep. As for the rest, we can just move them to the recycle bin. My name is Dave Andrews, and I've just showed you how to un-clutter your hard drive."