How do I delete all the files I downloaded on my computer?

Question

I own a dell computer. I have files such as old music and some games that dont open. how do I delete all this garbag. And by deleting all this, will my computer work faster.

Answer 1

This will put the computer back to the way you got it, so be sure to save to disk anything you want

Using Dell PC Restore by Symantec
NOTICE: Using Dell PC Restore permanently deletes all data on the hard drive and removes any applications or
drivers installed after you received your computer. If possible, back up the data before using PC Restore. Use PC
Restore only if System Restore did not resolve your operating system problem.
NOTE: Dell PC Restore by Symantec is not available in all countries or on all computers.
Use Dell PC Restore by Symantec only as the last method to restore your operating system.
PC Restore restores your hard drive to the operating state it was in when you purchased the computer.
Any programs or files added since you received your computer—including data files—are permanently
deleted from the hard drive. Data files include documents, spreadsheets, e-mail messages, digital photos,
music files, and so on. If possible, back up all data before using PC Restore.
To use PC Restore:
1 Turn on the computer.
During the boot process, a blue bar with www.dell.com appears at the top of the screen.
2 Immediately upon seeing the blue bar, press .
IF YOU DO NOT PRESS IN TIME, LET THE COMPUTER FINISH STARTING, AND THEN RESTART THE
COMPUTER AGAIN.
NOTICE: If you do not want to proceed with PC Restore, click Reboot in the following step.
3 On the next screen that appears, click Restore.
4 On the next screen, click Confirm.
The restore process takes approximately 6–10 minutes to complete.
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5 When prompted, click Finish to reboot the computer.
NOTE: Do not manually shut down the computer. Click Finish and let the computer completely reboot.
6 When prompted, click Yes.
The computer restarts. Because the computer is restored to its original operating state, the screens that
appear, such as the End User License Agreement, are the same ones that appeared the first time the
computer was turned on.
7 Click Next.
The System Restore screen appears and the computer restarts.
8 After the computer restarts, click OK.

Go to Microsoft Updates as you now will be WAY out of date.

Answer 2

I suggest you reformat the hard drive. Save all the files you want to keep elsewhere. Get out your recovery and device driver discs as you will need them and go from there.

Once redone, update your Windows software with all the updates and reload the software you want.

Plan on taking 2 - 3 hours to do this. Manually trying to remove stuff will take more time than this.

Finally if the hard drive is over 2 years old, you may want to replace the drive. You would hate to have the reformatted drive die 6 weeks from now and have to redo the whole process again then.

Answer 3

just select all the files you want to delete and right click and hit delete. Then go to the desktop and right click : Empty recycle bin. And yes your computer should work faster as the hard drive has to run through less space of useless data.

Answer 4

just delete them normaly and nope that won't make your pc faster what you need to have a faster pc is RAM what could make your computer faster is uninstalling some files that allways run at the start up "uninstalling not deleting"
or you could do this: go to start then press on run then write: msconfig, then go to the last tab and un-chek all the applications that you dont need so your computer will run faster, if you uncheck a application it wont be deleted but it will stop it from running at the start up :P

Answer 5

Just right click and click "Delete," on anything you wanna delete then go to your Recycle Bin and empty that. You won't see a lot of performance gain at all as the hard drive doesn't have very much to do with how fast your processor can do what it does...

Answer 6

just delete them, if they are all in a folder delete the folder, should be easy enough

and there may be some perfomance gains, but nothing major