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Cleaning Disk Space Using Ashampoo Win Optimizer in Windows 7

By Codrut Nistor

Posted in How-to, Windows-7

There are several optimizers available in the market and on the Internet. All of them are efficient and potential in one way or the other. The best optimizer however according to many users is Ashampoo Win Optimizer. The reason behind this is that the application is quite user friendly and even a layman can use it to increase the performance of his Windows 7 computer. The optimizer contains various tools for several purposes and disk cleaning tool is a handy feature that ships along with it. This third-party disk cleaner tool searches out for all the orphan files present in your computer and deletes them if it finds them unnecessary. You can use the disk cleaner feature of Ashampoo Win Optimizer by following the steps given below:

  1. Logon to your Windows 7 computer with administrator account as the application only uses elevated privileges to run and double click on the shortcut icon of Ashampoo Win Optmizer on the desktop.
  2. In the opened window make sure that Cleaning Tools section is selected in the left pane and from the right pane click on Drive Cleaner.
  3. On the opened page click on Start a new scan link and when the scanning is complete click on Delete all selected items (listed in Details) link to clean the selected drive.
  4. Once done close all the opened Windows and restart your computer to experience the increased performance.