A variety of utilities for cleaning a HDD can be found all of which come at hard disk analysis and cleanup in different ways. A great many parental controls can be located simply by doing a bit of research using search-engines. This is not the only function these products are capable of, some can clean up free drive space, check the drive for porn and remove it, find unlicensed software installed on the computer, and let you know how to recover your disk space.

We can discuss several hard disk cleaning possibilities; the first simply involves manually reviewing files and folders for deletion, or there is software automation. If you manually clean the drive, this involves stepping through all directories within the drive and deciding which of the files and folders are no longer useful, and deleting them at your own leisure. The manual method is more thorough than techniques involving automated parental control software tools but if there are many files and folders this can take time and energy. Automated cleaning software products that make delete/dont delete decisions based on fields like the date files were last accessed, to automatically generate a collection of files and folders that must be deleted.