You do not need masters to fix low disk space issue in windows operating systems. All you need is to learn how to use any application or elevated command prompt as Administrator on your computer or laptop. All the guidelines are given below to open any app or elevated command prompt as an administrator and to fix low disk space issue.
Low disk space
- From Start run disk cleanup utility as shown in snippet below.
- System will prompt you to select the drive to clean up. You can select Drive C as this the primary drive that stores all the cached and temporary files of computer then click OK.
- You may have to wait for few seconds since list may take sometime to populate depending on the size of cached data in system.
- Select the files you do not want. They area all temporary and cached files, therefore you can also select all the check boxes to delete them. Click OK then select Delete Files.
Another way to delete unnecessary files from computer system is to remove hiber cache that is stored every time you leave your computer or laptop on hibernate mode. To delete them follow the steps below.
- Open Command Prompt as administrator as show in the image below.
- Type in Powercfg -h off then press enter to execute command.
Above command will delete all the Hiber cache from your computer. You may also turn on the hibernate mode by executing command powercfg -h on anytime you want.
Delete Page file
To open page file follow the steps below.
- Right click on My computer or This PC app on desktop then open Computer properties with as shown in the snippet below.
- Now click on Advanced System Properties, shown in the image below.
- Then inside the Advanced tab, open Settings under Performance as show in the snippet below.
- Performance Options will open inside Settings then click on Change as show in the image below.
- Virtual Memory menu will get opened. Thereafter uncheck Automatically manage paging file size for all drives then select the radio button before No paging file and click Set followed by OK as show in the snippet below.
- Now restart the computer. Restart will make the necessary changes.
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