Quite a number of disk cleanup tools can be easily found on the internet. A quick search on Google will rapidly reveal the depth of software products that attack the matter of hard disk cleanup from different angles. Many content purity applications are commonly available and these are capable of helping with your cleanup regime. Also remember that there is much more that these utilities are able to do, several of these can also delete private data, detect and remove pornography, detect the presence of illegal or unlicensed software, and show where your disk space is being taken up.

There are two key ways to clean a hard drive; there is the manual way, or software can be employed to do the job. The more user intensive manual process means going through the folders on the hard drive and determining which files of the examined items are redundant, and purging them all at once. This procedure is much more thorough than automated methods but it can take some time. You can use software cleanup products that make delete/dont delete decisions based on fields which include file properties, last opened dates, etc. and make a collection of files and folders that must be deleted.