Most of the users around the world, when they get a new computer or format it with Windows, then they install their favorite programs. With regard to the web browser, an essential element at the moment, most opt for the Google option, Chrome.
At the same time, they also tend to install an office suite, a multimedia player, a photo viewer and all the software they need for their day-to-day work with the PC. In addition, to all this, we add the innumerable files and folders with their own data that we are gradually adding to the disk drives. Something that we must take into consideration is that as time goes by, these programs receive new updates. This means that little by little they grow in size, in addition to the files and settings that we ourselves add.
Taking into consideration that the disk drives that we have in the computer are limited in terms of space, we must take certain precautions. This is something that is extended to the commented browser of the search giant, Google Chrome. As with the rest of the programs of this type, here a series of data will also be compiled with which we want to improve the user experience. But after a few months or even years, we will realize that they can occupy several gigabytes on the disc.
Free up space with a key combination
Much of this information stored by Chrome, in most cases is basically useless, taking up unnecessary space that we could use for other content. At the same time on your own Program proposes a simple method to free up space quickly and efficiently.
For all this, the first thing we have to do is open the program in a conventional way as if we were going to visit any web page. However, if we have been using this application for several months or years, to free up disk space we will use the key combination Ctrl + Shift + Del. This will lead to a new window in which we observe different entries with their corresponding selectors that we can mark or unmark.
These entries that we are talking about make mention of the different types of data that the browser has accumulated over time. In fact, these often take up several gigabytes of disk drive space, which can become a serious problem.
Use the browser’s address bar
However, this is not the only way that the google program It presents us to expedite this release of useless data that we are commenting on. It is true that using this aforementioned keyboard shortcut we directly access the deletion options that the program presents us. We can also make use of a simple command that we have to type to achieve this same objective.
To do this, all we have to do is write the following command in the address bar. We refer to the section where we normally write the Url of the websites that we are going to visit:
chrome://settings/clearBrowserData
In this way we will have another way of directly accessing the section of deleting data stored over time of this application
Types of data to delete in Chrome
Here we are going to meet different type of data that we have the possibility to permanently erase. As we mentioned before, sometimes these can mean a liberation of several gigabytes of disk space, which will never hurt. In this way I only have to mark those contents that we want to get rid of those stored by the browser. Among these we can highlight the records of downloads and navigation, cookies, cache images, etc.
In addition, we can also select the period of time for which we want to clean, something that we find in the upper part of the window. Perhaps the most interesting thing in this case is to choose the option of Since always so that the cleaning go deeper.