What to Do When Your Computer Runs Out of Space

Your computer hard disk can be in Gigabytes and Terabytes, but its size is not infinite. If you are using the same computer from a long time, then anytime you may get the error message saying that you are running out of memory. Especially when we have larger size hard disk we keep on accumulating files without even caring about the space and after a period of time we forget that what all stuff is there on our disk which is responsible for this space crunch. It is must for all the computer users to keep at least some space spare on their hard disk otherwise when you will need it to save any critical information you will be in a big trouble. Here is what you can do when you find your computer running out of space and you critically need some free space. Follow below steps to make space in your computer:

1. Empty Recycle Bin:

If you do not have the habit to press Shift+Del to permanently delete files, then it is a good habit but at the same time you need to remember that you should empty Recycle bin on your computer after you are sure that what you have deleted is of no use. Deleting everything from recycle bin is an effective way to make more space immediately. Sometimes this may surprise you that you are able to spare GBs of space by doing this.

2. Check your downloads folder and dump files you don’t need:

On our computer we keep downloading, Songs, Software and lots of videos but think do you really delete them one you are done watching them. First place you should go to spare space on your hard disk is downloads folder. You will find that most of the files you have downloaded in past are of no use now or you have just moved them to any other folder. Get rid of these files to make extra space on your hard drive.

3. Clean browser cache and other temporary files:

Most often we use our computers for browsing and surfing. Whenever you approach a website it downloads some temporary files and save some cookies on your computer. temporary files can also be generated on your computer because of our day to day computer actives. To clean these temporary files, you clear browsing data by going to the settings of your browser or you can also run disk clean up wizard to clear all the temporary junk. Disk clean up wizard can be run by right clicking on a drive (Mostly required for C: Drive) and then by going to properties > Disk clean up.

4. Clean duplicate files:

Cleaning duplicate files can also spare lots of space immediately but only when you use a third-party software to clear duplicates. An efficient duplicate file finder tool quickly finds all the duplicates on your device and then you can clear them all in just few clicks. Not only this you can also take an online backup of your files before deleting them. Duplicate file fixer tool just takes few MBs of space on your computer and you can free up GBs of space using it.

5. Attach an external drive or a flash drive:

If you think that all the data on your computer is important and you cannot even afford to delete a single file, then you should straight away go for an external hard drive or for a flash drive. To extend memory of your computer. If you are going for an external hard drive then you will get 1 TB or 2 TB extra extended space and if you just need few GBs of extra space then a flash drive will work fine.

This is how you can solve the problem of space crunch on your computer. We realize the need of free space only when we get low disk space error messages, but the approach should be to keep this in mind that our computer is not having enough space.