About Low Disk Space'Low Disk Space' is a warning message in the Windows operating system, after which follows a complementary error message like 'You are running out of disk space on Local Disk (X:)', and it offers a link to where you can see if you can free space on this drive.When such a low disk space warning shows up, how much free space should you have so far? It depends on how frequently you received the notification. In general, there are three degrees of warnings for the same error message. Refer to the following table.
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FrequencyHow much free space leftShows up once, for 10 seconds200MBShows up every four hours, each for 30 seconds80MBShows up every five minutes, each for 30 seconds50MBAs you can tell from the exact size of free space, when Windows prompts low disk space, you can hardly save new data, download apps, play games or install a recent Windows update. What's worse, PC performance may be affected. You must free up a significant amount of disk space to get rid of the constantly popping up notification. How to Fix Low Disk Space in Windows 10/8/7Sometimes, you might think it easy to ignore the popup warning or find a way to disable it for permanent. Indeed, modifying the registry value can stop the notification showing up again, but that's not the thing we talk here. In this article, we introduce an all-round for personal users, to let them thoroughly solve low disk space in Windows operating systems in 5 ways, including 1 junk file cleanup, 2large file cleanup, 3disk optimization, 4partition resize, and 5partition combination.In the beginning, download the all-purpose you need - EaseUS Partition Master. This is a third-party Windows disk management tool that manages Windows users' computers in every way, with dozens of practical features embedded.
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The worldwide users are so accustomed to having this handy software installed that they can easily and safely extend/shrink a partition, format a partition, convert a file system, migrate Windows OS, clone a hard drive, etc. Windows 10 is supportedNext, follow the 5 tips to make full use of EaseUS Partition Master to solve the 'low disk space' problem.
Clean junk filesJunk files include systems junk files (temporary files, Windows system logs.), and browser data, Windows applications data and all the unknown and unuseful data that takes up space. Once a Quora user said, for average computer users who use a computer 8 hours a day, if you didn't do a junk files clean up like in a year, you'll free up around 15GB of space. Where to find abandoned files by OS and users themselves? Run EaseUS partition manager software and look for yourself. Clean large filesSome professions, such as designers or photographers, corporate with extremely large files. A pile of 100MB10GB documents, pictures, zip files, ebooks or movies are account for most of the low disk space problem on a computer.
You don't need to delete all the large files, but an efficient way to scan all existing large files with the exact file size information for reference. Use EaseUS Partition Master's large file cleanup feature, after a complete disk scan, it will return a result of files, with information of name, size, date created and file location, so you can choose which you will no longer use. Just delete the ones and free up some disk space.Open System Optimization as Step 1 taught, this time choose Large File Cleanup and then follow the wizard to delete unwanted large files. Extend the drive that's running low on free spaceFreeing up disk space by deleting junk files and large files are typically basic operations to deal with low disk space. When a drive partition like system drive C or data partition D is filled with a rad bar, try to look at the other partitions. Is there much free space available?
If yes, you can try to extend the currently running low disk space drive as instructed. For example, the C drive space is out, and you are going to extend the C drive. Important Buggy software or a virus can destroy your system files, draining hard drive space. If you see a hard drive like rapidly, it's an unusual factor of low disk space as described in the coming part. In this case, use an antivirus program to run a virus scan and cleanup. If this doesn't fix the problem, you might need to reset Windows to an earlier point/factory settings.
How to Effectively Manage Hard Drive Space for FutureHope that EaseUS Partition Master has released a considerable amount of disk space for at least a short-term use. It always works by cleaning unwanted files and uninstalling unnecessary programs, but you may need to learn some basics to prevent future low disk space associated warnings. Here are some tips that are useful in managing your computer hard drive in a logical and clean way. Always bear in mind, good habits are important to prolong a computer' life.Following are 5 tips of developing a good habit of smartly using local hard drive space. Prepare a removable disk for important large filesPersonal files such as videos, music, photos and documents can take up a lot of disk space on your computer. They are important, and usually for long-term preservation.Important files like those are seldom for use, so it's a good idea to prepare a micro SD card or a USB flash drive to keep them.
To reduce the heavy load of local hard drives. Turn on cloud storage serviceCloud is also a good place to save large files, to reduce the disk usage, at the same time, a very good backup location for your valuable data files. Install programs on another drive instead of the defaultC drive, as we know, is for system installation, and it's closely related to system performance. Low C drive space would affect OS performance, making OS crash all the time.
So, when installing programs, customize another location instead of choosing the default C drive. Empty recycle bin on a regular basisWindows recycle bin is for holding deleted files and folders for a long term, in case you will need to recover deleted files someday after deletion. But recycle bin folder with too many files there also takes up a plenty of disk space. Regularly cleaning up the recycle bin will help prevent the drive from filling up and running out of free space.
Delete duplicate filesIt's inevitable to produce duplicate files. Do not let many copies of the same file eats up your valuable hard drive space.