Comments on: Simple ways to increase your computer’s performance – Save hard disk space!

By: Lori

Lori — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:47:51 +0000

Thank you very much. I am bookmarking this page and recommending it to anyone who appears interested in having a more efficient computer

By: Harsha

Harsha — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:58:09 +0000

Hey … awesome info out here … didnt know that disabling the “Hybernate” option would free up so much of disk space … i have a 2 GB RAM … and u can imagine the smile on my face when i disabled Hybernating !!!

Thanx a ton !!!

By: Ashwin

Ashwin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:31:19 +0000

use winzip or any other compression tool to zip the files., or else buy a removable media , like external drives they are cheaper now days., or else buy a new internal hard disk of more space 640gb or 500gb ..,I use external hard disk , they are very reliable and works fantastic., data is safe !!! What else do u need !!!

By: Austin

Austin — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:24:21 +0000

this really helped me free up some space.World of Warcraft takes 10g so I don’t have much space with all of the other junk.I got 13 GB back today deleting old programs and compressing files.

By: zach

zach — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:40:47 +0000

i have 44 videos that i created from my built-in webcam off of my xpsM1530 laptop. my hard drive space is getting very low. the 44 videos has a total of 124 GB. how can i reduce the sizes of those videos so i can have more space on my hard drive which has a capacity of holding 220 GB on my OS (C:) drive? someone please help!

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:05:04 +0000

Thanks a lot for this info! I’ve always been low on HD space and could never understand why. I would compress files, delete files, uninstall programs and not gain more than a couple hundred MB. I didn’t realise how much space system restore uses. 8000mb? Thats a stupid waste of space for something I never use.

By: okan

okan — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:00:39 +0000

thank you so much i needed this site badly u are the best now hopefully nothing will happen and my computer will stay the same right? just asking but no matter what this site was great

By: Phil

Phil — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:37:33 +0000

Hi:
I heard that a way to save on the life of the hard drive is to turn the computer off only once a month or when you have to do updates. Otherwise, use Standby as much as possible. Is this true? Thanks.

By: Ranjith

Ranjith — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:36:33 +0000

I never knew that decreasing the recycle bin space will be useful.But another tip is also to defrag your disk and perform disk cleanup regularly.Good post.

By: AJ

AJ — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:03:26 +0000

Hey I have a question, is it safe to uncheck my Java during start up? will it mess my laptop? I am using Windows Vista btw.

By: Richard FDisk

Richard FDisk — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:45:27 +0000

Another way I’ve used to save space is to, “Squish” files
(this can be done natively in XP & up, for the older OS’s you need WinZip or some file “compression” utility)

1) find a folder with a ton of my files
2) rt click or hit the “context menu” key on the keyboard
3) select “new”
4) “compressed zipped folder”
5) name it to whatever the content will be ie BMP’s.zip, JPG’S.zip or just “ZippedUp.zip”
6) double click it or click and hit enter
7) a new “Explorer” window opens
go back to the other window and select all the files in it
9) rt click and hold while dragging the files to the other window
10) a little context menu asking if you want to copy or move the files, select move.

this creates a “single” file containing all those files within it thus saving wasted clusters for files that don’t use an exact cluster size ie
4096, 8192, 16384, 32768, 65536, etc.
if your files aren’t these sizes they waste space.

the good thing about the native XP “compressed zipped folders” is that the files in it are availible to open just by opening the folder as you would any folder in explorer and opening the file or draging the file to your application, and for the others like WinZip etc. you need to open it first but hey if it saves space it’s still worth it.

:Edit(add on)
Also, defrag the drive after “creating” and moving the files into the “compressed zipped folder”

Cheers
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