My buddy has a new PC and he was trying to free up space but he was removing files and looking at the C drive. His new PC had one of those small SSDs and the user files which he was deleting was on other than C.
Took a while as they had never owned such a PC before.
Also, try disk cleanup.
I need help.I am deleting files on my pc but this doesnt free u space.I am using : ctrl+Delete butons and the files are not in the thrash.Please help!

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