People complaining about slowness of Windows is kinda normal thing now, but what we all don’t understand is the reason behind it. Most of the time in such situation, we blame viruses for it, but it’s not always because of them Windows perform slow. There can be various reasons behind this thing, and one of the core reasons can be lack of hard disk space.
Why Low Hard Disk Space Can Cause Problems In Windows
Every software installed in Windows, consumes some amount of space when you open it. By space I mean, it generates temporary files and some other system files which help them to run properly. In order to create such files, they need space in hard disk. If the hard disk doesn’t have enough space for such files, then these softwares will perform slow, often hangs and can cause system freeze as well.
It has a simple logic behind it and that’s what we all have to be aware of. There is nothing geeky about this thing which makes it difficult for you to understand it. Now the next step is to know how to avoid low hard disk space.
Things To Take Care of
There are three things which I recommend in order to avoid slowness because of low disk space.
1. Make sure each partition in your Hard disk have atleast 1GB of free space all the time (to be on the safe side, I recommend to have atleast 3GB of free space). Especially the partition where you have installed Windows in it (most of the time it’s C drive) should have 3 GB of free space all the time (this is my recommendation only). The partition where Windows is installed needs more space because, Windows system files grow fast as time passes by and for that it needs plenty of space.
2. Unknowingly most of us save all of our music, videos, pictures, docs etc in C drive only. This practice should not be followed and try to avoid saving anything in C drive atleast (or in the drive where Windows is installed), so that you won’t face problem of low hard disk space especially in the partition where already Windows operating system is installed.
3. Most of us also install each and every software in the system partition (C drive) only. Following such practice makes the System Partition (C drive) very critical and that’s why it often face low disk space problem. From now on, try to install the softwares in the other partitions (other than the system partition), because as already said above, these softwares also generates temporary files which consumes space in hard disk.
Last Thoughts
Although this looks like a small thing to troubleshoot, but believe me, I have seen many people facing this problem and they just wonder how to solve this issue once and for all. Don’t take temporary decisions by moving some of the files from here and there in order to create space in Hard disk. Create a plan in order to solve such problem and then stick to it.
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