Windows 11 helps you get rid of unused apps and extend your PC's battery life
Windows 11 helps you get rid of unused apps and extend your PC's battery life
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Windows 11 helps you get rid of unused apps and extend your PC's battery life

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Speaker 1: Windows 11 can help extend your device's battery life. But if your device is running low on space, it's not gonna be operating at peak performance. An easy way to fix this is to delete unused apps and files from your device. No, you don't have to get rid of everything. And windows 11 can help you decide which apps to give the boot by how much space they're taking up. And when you last them Speaker 1: Head over to settings, click system, and then click storage, click show more categories [00:00:30] to see a full list of how much space apps, temporary files and documents are taking up on your device. From here, you can turn on storage sense, which will allow windows to delete theary files automatically. Windows 11 also offers cleanup recommendations. If you're not sure just where to start or want a bit more control over what stays and what goes under cleanup recommendations, you can choose to delete files manually. Just scroll through your list in storage, select any temporary files. Unused files, files [00:01:00] syncs with cloud unused apps, and then click clean up, free up some drive space. Keep your device running in tip top shape and follow CNET for more windows 11 tips and tricks.

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