HT201402 What is the yellow bar in storage means.

The storage yellow bar is pretty full.  How can I lower this storage part in my computer.

Anything that's not an audio, movie, photo, app or backup. So it could be text files, spreadsheets, system files, pdfs, ebooks, presentations, email, fonts, etc.
WhatSize is a program that will show you the size of files and folders on your drive and help you decide what to delete.

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