How to gain space on your hard drive in Windows

We tend to accumulate files and install new programs on our computer with the result that, although the hard disks of the teams have more and more capacity, there comes a time when we are about to fill it completely. There are formulas to gain space without having to erase anything or resort to external solutions, such as a disk connected through usb. In .com we explain how to gain space on the hard disk in Windows.

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The alternative that will allow you to gain more space on your hard drive is to compress it. You can get to gain 5 gigas of space and without losing any stored data or any feature. You must be on My computer and, once there, on the hard drive you want to compress .

With right button, you access Properties and you have the option to mark Compress the hard drive . The system will ask for administrator permissions and begin to compress. The work lasts for a long time but the result is very good. Once the disk is compressed, you will work normally with the files and programs.

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You will gain site in the hard disk, also, with the Liberator of space in disc . To do so, you have to go to System Tools, and System and Security. This operation does not earn many Mb and what we do is delete temporary files, thumbnails, data that is downloaded to install a program but then are not necessary, etc. The operation does not last too long so we can do it while we use the equipment without any problem.

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If there are several users that use the equipment, you have a way to control that they do not exceed the use of the hard disk . With the quota allocation tool you can mark that they do not use more than a certain space or that you miss an alert when they approach a set amount.

To access the tool you have to go to the hard drive, press right button and, in Properties, go to Quota. There you will see all the options you have.