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music, videos, and documents in other folders, they’re not counted

here.)

Mail. “Manage mail” opens your Mail app, so you can delete some
mail to save space.

Maps refers to offline maps (regions you’ve saved to your
computer so you can view them without an internet connection

later; see “Offline Maps”). Hit “Manage maps” to open a Settings
page that lists your offline maps for easy purging.

Temporary files may offer the most fruitful spring cleaning of all.
Here are links to all kinds of cache files, temporary files, and other
junk Windows doesn’t really need. Turn on the checkboxes that
seem promising, and then hit “Remove files,” to reclaim what’s

sometimes a ton of space.

Hard Drive Checkups

It’s true: Things can occasionally go wrong on the surface of your hard
drive. Maybe there’s a messed-up spot on its physical surface. Maybe,

thanks to a system crash, power outage, or toddler playing with your surge
suppressor, your computer gets turned off without warning, and some files
are left open and stranded.

In the olden days, way back even before Windows XP, fixing your disk
required running a program called ScanDisk, a utility designed to detect
and, when possible, repair drive damage.

ScanDisk doesn’t exist in Windows 10. But its functions, and many more,
have been overhauled. Many disk problems are automatically detected and
automatically fixed—and most of them don’t require you to wait while the

PC repairs itself. There’s a lot less downtime.

You can also check your disk on command—the old disk-checking
procedure.