You can open it to check for pages and extensions that are using much Memory or CPU.
Use Chrome Task ManagerĬhrome Task Manager is useful tool for viewing and managing Google Chrome taking up disk space. Please click here to know more about What Version of Chrome Is This (Part 2).
Now you know how to save some hard disk space by removing unnecessary Chrome files.Read More 6 Fixes for Google Chrome 100 Disk Usage Therefore I can safely delete version 34 (and lower).ĭo not delete other files and folders, only delete folders that have a version number! Summary In my example 35.0.x will be newer than 34.0.x. Make sure that you do not delete the latest version! The latest Chrome version will be in the folder with the highest version number. Now that we have found the culprit we can start cleaning up old Google Chrome versions by removing files. Step 3: Cleaning old Google Chrome versions One for version 34, and one for version 35. Step 2: Identify old Chrome versionsĪs demonstrated here, Chrome basically has a double installation present. Obviously “YOURUSERNAME” needs to be replaced with the user that installed Chrome. Try to navigate here:Ĭ:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome In that case you will not be able to see the Appdata map. Manually browse to the Chrome temporary folder. Step 1 version B: Finding Chrome in Appdata by browsing Where yourusername is the name of your current Windows account. You will end up in C:\Users\ yourusername\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome. go back one step to the parent folder AppData.This will open directory AppData\Roaming in a new window.
Type the following code into your Task bar: (Windows 8 users press windows key+ R at the same time to open the ‘run’ window). Step 1 version A: Find Chrome in Appdata with %appdata% If you have multiple user accounts then make sure you are logged into the primary administrator account (usually named admin). Cleaning old Google Chrome versions in Appdata (UAC enabled)ĭepending on whether you have enable UAC (User Account Control) or not the Google Chrome’s installation files are located in a complicated file path.
Now simply remove the folders that have old version numbers. In this example there were 2 Chrome installation folders to be found Version 40.xxx.94 and version 40.xxx.93. These are the different Google Chrome versions.
If you reached the correct folder then you will notice several directories with a lot of numbers. So let’s get to work… Cleaning old Google Chrome versions in Program Files Step 1: Navigate to the Chrome installation folderĭepending on whether you have enable UAC (User Account Control) or not the Google Chrome’s installation files are located in the following directoryĬ:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application Step 2: Identify old Chrome versions
Usually temporary files grow the longer you have software installed. If you are “lucky” you can save several GigaBytes. Cleaning old Google Chrome versions will save you at least 250MB. Especially if you are using an expensive Solid State Drive or SSD. After a while Chrome will start taking up several Gigabytes! Did you know Google Chrome can eat up Gigabytes of disk space? For some reason Chrome keeps copies of previous versions around.