Disc Space

Click the windows logo in the bottom left corner of the screen.

Disc space. Need to free up some disk space on your pc. The available space on your drive will appear under devices and drives. In general windows needs at least a few gigabytes of free storage space to perform optimally. Disk capacity is displayed in mb megabytes gb gigabytes or tb terabytes.

The windows 10 storage settings screen is your primary source of information about what types of files are using your disk drive s space. If that s all you need to know then you re done. Windows includes a built in tool that deletes temporary files and other unimportant data. Uninstalling programs will free up space but some programs use very little space.

Windows shows the amount of free disk space on the drive directly below the drive s name. In newer versions of windows you can see right under the drive listing how much free space is left on it as well as the total size of the drive in a format like this. Local disk c storage space indicator 49 0 gb free of 118 gb. It allows you to see how much space has been used on your drive and by what content.

Windows 10 provides a dedicated screen where you can do just that. Click the gear shaped icon in the lower left side of the start menu. For example it uses this to cache important programs and virtual memory to disk which speeds up the operation of windows. You can also press win to open start.

Alternatively referred to as disk space disk storage or storage capacity disk capacity is the maximum amount of data a disc disk or drive is capable holding. These programs scan and interpret everything that s using up disk space like saved files videos program installation files everything and then provide you one or more reports that help make very clear what s using up all your storage space. A disk space analyzer tool sometimes called a storage analyzer tells you the details. 7 ways to free up hard disk space on windows run disk cleanup.