How to free up more space on your computer hard drive

A computer system is a powerful machine that simplifies most of our day to day activities. Things that usually takes several days to complete, might be done in a few hours with the aid of a computer. The only problem of this powerful machine is the shortage of disk space The personal computer is also home to all our personal data, such as games software, multimedia files and personal images. The combination of all these data usually consumes a lot of space, Disk space shortage may be due to several reasons such as disorganized and cluttered data. To solve disk space shortage problem on your personal computer, just follow this simple guides.

• If you have upgraded your windows to a new version, there is a high chance old system files may still be lurking on your hard disk, they usually gulp up space depending on how much data you had on the disk before the upgrade. To delete these files, all you have to do is

Go to My Computer

Click on drive C: (or whatever you named your main hard disk)

There is a folder called windows old.

Click on it and enter

make sure you won’t miss the stuff inside, if there are things you want move them somewhere else on your computer.

Then delete the whole “windows old” this should free you a lot of space.

• Remove programs or games that you no longer need: This can be done by accessing the uninstall program features in the control panel by following this steps

Go to start menu

Select control panel

Click on programs and Features

Select the program you wish to remove

Finally click on uninstall program,

• In your windows operation system there are certain tools designed to help in situations where you are having free space issues, Disk cleanup tool is one of those applications. You can access it by

Go to the start menu

In the search box type “Disk cleanup tool”

Click on it to run

Now choose the disk you wish to free up space from

It will scan your computer within seconds (depends on how powerful your computer is) and display all data that can be deleted to free up space

Just tick on the files you wish the computer to eradicate and then press ok.

• Compress or completely delete those unnecessary files: A computer system accumulates and stores a lot of unnecessary data as you use it. These files maybe from some old programs that has already being uninstalled but its saved file weren’t deleted, it could also from temporary files. These files usually end up consuming system space, which ends up affecting the system operations especially in the areas of speed and performance. The best way to fix this issue and free up space is to delete those files, or use programs such as WinRAR, 7zip etc. to compress them into smaller size were they won’t take much space.

• Get an External storage: if your files are too precious to delete and you want them very close to you at all times, then you should get an external storage device, this may be an external hard drive, DVDs, Micro SD card, flash drives etc. Those can comfortably and safely hold up your data, while giving your system free space to perform all its operations efficiently without any sort of problem.

• Another option is to buy an online storage, this requires access to the internet, you can easily back up your files without much stress. But you have to cough up some cash for the space you are renting. The major advantage of this options is that your data will always be available to you online with just a click. You can also access it from all internet enabled devices like smartphones and other computer systems anywhere in the world and at any time. Provided you have the necessary clearance to do so i.e., your password