How to free disk space on computer

How to free disk space on computer


This tutorial will provide you some ways to free some disk space on your computer.

Less space on hard disk can be frustrating at times. To immediately recover some gigabytes of space on your computer, here is a healthy tip. When a new software is being installed on the system, what we need to do is update the existing drivers and patch them. In this process the snapshot of the whole system is taken to restore is any kind of malfunctioning. By this we can always reach to a previous stable working state. While doing so the Windows take the backup of most other applications and pictures. Actually the copies of the files known by he name shadow copies are created and this feature is available with Windows vista as well as with Windows 7.

While running this procedure some space is being occupied by these copies every time we restore our system. This space can be in gigabytes. For effective utilization of this occupied space, one thing can be to remove all the older restore points, nextly remove all the restore points in case the system is working fine and has an effective firewall protecting it from vulnerable threats.

Procedure to free disk space

Open the command prompt by typing cmd in run.The enter the admin mode by pressing ctrl+shift+enter. A window is shown and click yes to proceed further.
A command c:\>vssadmin delete shadows /for=c: /oldest needs to written to delete only the shadow copies.
For removing all the shadow copies type c:\>vssadmin delete shadows /for=c: /all

Reasons for avoiding shadow copies

The system automatically creates the copies of flies and keeps on exhausting space. When the system starts running out of space, it deletes the old copies to retain the new ones. To keep oneself updated on the space config, type sysdm.cpl. This opens the system properties dialog. Then we need to click on the system protection tab and then configure. The space occupied is then revealed. We can always adjust by moving the cursor to the left or the right. However there is a minimum requirement of 300MB space for backup.

After configuring

Go to the System protection and then create a snapshot of the newly created system. The backup of the present working state of the system is created.