How To Clean Desktop Memory

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Windows allow the user an easy way to delete processes that you no longer need with a following way: 1. Click a keyboard combination of CTL + ALT + DELETE. Virtual memory is a sort of halfway zone between RAM and the long-term storage of your hard drive. With virtual memory, your computer allocates part of your hard drive to handle less-active processes, freeing up your RAM for whatever you’re doing right now.

Optimized Storage helps you save storage space space by storing your content in iCloud and making it available on demand:

  • When storage space is needed, files, photos, movies, email attachments, and other files that you seldom use are stored in iCloud automatically.
  • Each file stays right where you last saved it, and downloads when you open it.
  • Files that you’ve used recently remain on your Mac, along with optimized versions of your photos.

If you haven't yet upgraded to macOS Sierra or later, learn about other ways to free up storage space.

Find out how much storage is available on your Mac

Choose Apple menu  > About This Mac, then click Storage. Each segment of the bar is an estimate of the storage space used by a category of files. Move your pointer over each segment for more detail.

Click the Manage button to open the Storage Management window, pictured below.

Manage storage on your Mac

The Storage Management window offers recommendations for optimizing your storage. If some recommendations are already turned on, you will see fewer recommendations.

Store in iCloud

Click the Store in iCloud button, then choose from these options:

  • Desktop and Documents. Store all files from these two locations in iCloud Drive. When storage space is needed, only the files you recently opened are kept on your Mac, so that you can easily work offline. Files stored only in iCloud show a download icon , which you can double-click to download the original file. Learn more about this feature.
  • Photos. Store all original, full-resolution photos and videos in iCloud Photos. When storage space is needed, only space-saving (optimized) versions of photos are kept on your Mac. To download the original photo or video, just open it.
  • Messages. Store all messages and attachments in iCloud. When storage space is needed, only the messages and attachments you recently opened are kept on your Mac. Learn more about Messages in iCloud.

Storing files in iCloud uses the storage space in your iCloud storage plan. If you reach or exceed your iCloud storage limit, you can either buy more iCloud storage or make more iCloud storage available. iCloud storage starts at 50GB for $0.99 (USD) a month, and you can purchase additional storage directly from your Apple device. Learn more about prices in your region.

Optimize Storage

Click the Optimize button to save space by automatically removing watched movies and TV shows. When storage space is needed, movies or TV shows that you purchased from Apple and already watched are removed from your Mac. Click the download icon next to a movie or TV show to download it again.

Your Mac will also save space by keeping only recent email attachments on this Mac when storage space is needed. You can manually download any attachments at any time by opening the email or attachment, or saving the attachment to your Mac.

Optimizing storage for movies, TV shows, and email attachments doesn't require iCloud storage space.

Empty Trash Automatically

Empty Trash Automatically permanently deletes files that have been in the Trash for more than 30 days.

Reduce Clutter

Reduce Clutter helps you identify large files and files you might no longer need. Click the Review Files button, then choose any of the file categories in the sidebar, such as Applications, Documents, Music Creation, or Trash.

You can delete the files in some categories directly from this window. Other categories show the total storage space used by the files in each app. You can then open the app and decide whether to delete files from within it.

Learn how to redownload apps, music, movies, TV shows, and books.


Where to find the settings for each feature

The button for each recommendation in the Storage Management window affects one or more settings in other apps. You can also control those settings directly within each app.

  • If you're using macOS Catalina or later, choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, click Apple ID, then select iCloud in the sidebar: Store in iCloud turns on the Optimize Mac Storage setting on the right. To turn off iCloud Drive entirely, deselect iCloud Drive.
  • If you're using macOS Mojave or earlier, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click iCloud, then click Options next to iCloud Drive. Store in iCloud turns on the Desktop & Documents Folders and Optimize Mac Storage settings.
  • In Photos, choose Photos > Preferences, then click iCloud. Store in iCloud selects iCloud Photos and Optimize Mac Storage.
  • In Messages, choose Messages > Preferences, then click iMessage. Store in iCloud selects Enable Messages in iCloud.
  • If you're using macOS Catalina or later, open the Apple TV app, choose TV > Preferences from the menu bar, then click Files. Optimize Storage selects “Automatically delete watched movies and TV shows.”
  • In you're using macOS Mojave or earlier, open iTunes, choose iTunes > Preferences from the menu bar, then click Advanced. Optimize Storage selects “Automatically delete watched movies and TV shows.”
  • In Mail, choose Mail > Preferences from the menu bar, then click Accounts. In the Account Information section on the right, Optimize Storage sets the Download Attachments menu to either Recent or None.

Empty Trash Automatically: From the Finder, choose Finder > Preferences, then click Advanced. Empty Trash Automatically selects “Remove items from the Trash after 30 days.”

Other ways that macOS helps automatically save space

With macOS Sierra or later, your Mac automatically takes these additional steps to save storage space:

  • Detects duplicate downloads in Safari, keeping only the most recent version of the download
  • Reminds you to delete used app installers
  • Removes old fonts, languages, and dictionaries that aren't being used
  • Clears caches, logs, and other unnecessary data when storage space is needed

How to free up storage space manually

Even without using the Optimized Storage features described in this article, you can take other steps to make more storage space available:

  • Music, movies, and other media can use a lot of storage space. Learn how to delete music, movies, and TV shows from your device.
  • Delete other files that you no longer need by moving them to the Trash, then emptying the Trash. The Downloads folder is good place to look for files that you might no longer need.
  • Move files to an external storage device.
  • Compress files.
  • Delete unneeded email: In the Mail app, choose Mailbox > Erase Junk Mail. If you no longer need the email in your Trash mailbox, choose Mailbox > Erase Deleted Items.

Learn more

  • The Storage pane of About This Mac is the best way to determine the amount of storage space available on your Mac. Disk Utility and other apps might show storage categories such as Not Mounted, VM, Recovery, Other Volumes, Free, or Purgeable. Don't rely on these categories to understand how to free up storage space or how much storage space is available for your data.
  • When you duplicate a file on an APFS-formatted volume, that file doesn't use additional storage space on the volume. Deleting a duplicate file frees up only the space required by any data you might have added to the duplicate. If you no longer need any copies of the file, you can recover all of the storage space by deleting both the duplicate and the original file.
  • If you're using a pro app and Optimize Mac Storage, learn how to make sure that your projects are always on your Mac and able to access their files.

Frustrated of having slow PC speed even with large RAM capacity? RAM is the biggest factor making your PC slow. Here in this tutorial we are primarily focussing on cleaning your RAM and some tips to improve your PC speed. Beside this we are going to put little focus on how RAM affects your Windows PC performance.

Why RAM slow down your PC?

RAM basically deals all the applications running on your PC weather on the screen or behind the screen. RAM stores the data you have on your PC if says in simple language, it performs all the tasks and calculation running on your PC. So my performing all these functions, RAM unable to focus on particular things and this is the reason the work you are doing, RAM is not performing well and slow down the PC speed. Now the question may arises how to know RAM is responsible for your slow Windows? Let us check this also.

How we know RAM is slowing down our PC?

There are different ways by which you can guess that your RAM is full.
  • Applications running slow: This is the first clue you get once you see the application running slow when you start.
  • Application crash: Sometimes applications are not performing according to what they perform and showing erratic behaviour.
  • Warnings: There are warnings when you open application, pop-up box appears showing Not enough RAM, either extend or delete data. It means your RAM is full and you have to remove data from it or manage it.
How To Clean Desktop Memory

Let us start how you can easily speed up your PC by cleaning your RAM from Windows PC.

Clean Windows PC RAM and Speed up Performance

There are many ways for clearing your Windows PC RAM, here we are suggesting you some of the best ways.

1.End unnecessary running programmes

There are many apps that are unnecessary running and consume lot of CPU power, stop all these tasks.

  • Open Task Manager with Ctrl + Alt + Del keys.
  • Go to Task Manager, open Processes tab and the list displaying all your running tasks.
  • Here you see the usage according to CPU, Memory, Disk, and Network. Choose the tasks consuming high CPU percentage and click End Task.

How To Clean Desktop Pc

You can select many tasks that are unnecessary running and after this, your CPU consumption becomes less and definitely the performance of your computer improves.

2. Uninstall the Apps/ Programmes

There are many app/ programmes that are installed in your PC that no longer required by you or you are not using them frequently. Uninstall all the unnecessary apps to free up your storage.
  • Open Start menu and choose Settings.
  • On the Settings menu, tap on System.
  • Tap on Apps & features on the left side menu.
  • Tap on the application and choose Uninstall option.
How To Clean Desktop Memory

You can uninstall as many applications as you want. And the storage capacity increases and ultimately RAM which improves your PC speed.

3. Uninstall browser extensions

Extensions on your browser always help in performing your work efficiently but unnecessary extensions put a huge load on RAM and thus making your browser functions slow. Uninstall all the useless extensions and we have seprate topic for the best extensions that you must have in all different categories. Please check it out and only install those which really helps your daily routine work.

4. Close Unnessary applications

When you start your computer, many applications/ programmes automatically opened and start running. Close all the programmes. This will definitely improve your PC performance and quick loading in computer startup.

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To disable automatic start up of programme follow below steps.

  • Press Win+r and type below command in the field and press Enter key.

%AppData%RoamingMicrosoftWindowsStart MenuProgramsStartup

  • Right-click on the programme that to don’t need to launch and select Delete option.

5. Use RAM cleaning software

The software is always the best option which I personally prefer and recommend to our readers. Decent software available are paid but worth. They intelligently clean the RAM any improves your PC performance. MacPaw CleanMyPC is really amazing software in this category and offers lot more than we expect. Let us check how effectively we use CleanMyPC to clear RAM.
This application allows you to check Autorun apps, extensions, Registry maintenance, and many other features.
  • Download CleanMyPC and install it on your PC.
  • Launch it after successful installation.
  • Tap on Extensions check out the unnecessary extensions and remove them.
  • Also, go to Autorun to check the applications or programmes running automatically on startup of your computer. Disable them from the button.

Recommended: CleanMyPC Latest Review

You can also clear all your cache, duplicate files that unnecessary consumes your storage. It really improves your PC performance.

For the readers who are looking for free alternatives, EaseUS Partition Master is a good choice. This software helps to remove useless programmes from PC in easy way and improves Windows PC performance.

How To Clean All Memory From Desktop

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