Sometimes the hard drive is clogged with various kinds of information, so much so that it becomes necessary to free up space. But how to do this if you need almost all the information recorded on it?
Instructions
Step 1
If your hard drive is, so to speak, "critically" clogged, which even often reminds you of this, you need to take urgent action. First of all, it is advisable to do defragmentation. It is located at: • Start
•All programs
• Standard
• Service
• Disk defragmentation If you have not defragmented for a long time (or never at all), then some space will necessarily free up, and even more - the performance (and possibly speed) of the hard disk will improve. It is recommended to perform defragmentation at least once every six months.
Step 2
You can try to manually search for unnecessary files / programs. For example, look in the following place: • Start
•Control Panel
• Add and remove programsAfter that, make sure that you are using all the programs / applications from there? At the same time, a hidden archive from system recovery sometimes takes up a lot of space. To save space on your hard drive, System Restore can be disabled: • Start
•All programs
• Standard
• Service
• System Restore and disable the program. If you need a similar program to return to a certain point, it is recommended that you install something else that takes up less space on your hard disk, for example, the AVZ program or any other with the system restore function.
Step 3
There is a whole set of different programs that help clean up hard disk space from unnecessary files. To clean the system from unnecessary files in the Windows folder, registry, etc. well suited programs: Auslogik Bust Speed, CCleaner.
