TOP 5 METHODS TO INCREASE THE DISK SPACE OF PC

Space of hard drives of personal computers has been increased since last few years.Earlier it was difficult to get hard disk space of 40 GB and now storage capacity of 1 Terra byte is just the normal one.Often this much space is also less.

If one cant purchase hard drive that have much space,then he or she can make some free space in hard disk.Doing so, one can also improve his or her PC's performance.Using some tools of windows, disk space can be made free.

1. DISK CLEANUP TOOL :

Disk Cleanup is the inbuilt tool of windows that removes unnecessary files from disk. It saves more space by removing temp folders, another random system files and also by deleting contents of recycle bin.

For getting this, type and search DISK CLEANUP in the search bar and opening this, you will see a new window.Then choose the file which you want to  delete from your system.Then PC will calculate that how much space can you save.Next, a list will appear to you which is the category wise space you can save.

2. COMPRESS THE FILES :

Windows NTFS file uses the system that offers built-in file compression option.The main is that compressed file takes time to get opened.It is useful and beneficial for documents, old pdf files and large images.

For this just do the right click on the file icon and go to the properties.Then click the advanced option and last step is to click on " Compress contents to save disk space".

3. ONLINE STORAGE :

Now also, in the days of "cloud computing", people use local machine to save their data.Old photos and files can easily be put up on cloud.

For this we are having an option of Microsoft's cloud solution ONE DRIVE.It is integrated with windows-8.It provides space of 7GB. With cloud storage you can access your files from all over the world.

4. REMOVE UNNECESSARY APPLICATIONS :   

Gradually as PC becomes older, unnecessary apps get installed in it.Old versions of games and softwares should be removed from the system.

For this type and search the programs and features in the search bar.After this you will get the list of all programs installed in the PC.In this list you can delete the irrelevant files from the system and if you are not getting which file is for which task, then you can help of online researches for that.

5. CHANGES IN SYSTEM RESTORE SETTINGS :

 With the help of system restore one can undo changes occurred in system restore It does not affect personal files, e-mails and photographs.It will lead you to last configuration and with the help of this PC can be saved from wrong drives, registry keys, system files and installed programs.

Go to the control panel and select the system memory that is used in making restore points.Click on system restore and go the settings.In this you will an option " Disk Space Usage".By decreasing its slider, you can increase the disk space.

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