Thread: Compress

What do you mean by Compress?

While performing the Disk Cleanup you will have an option to compress your hard drive. We powerfully propose users do not compact their hard disk drive and/or compressed their old files.

Additional guidance for users who are running Windows 2000 and Windows XP in the computer:

Window 2000 and Windows XP keeps all the essential files required to uninstall any of the updates ever when they are been installed in your computer. Frequently this is a numerous dozen of updates that can take up quite a few hundred and at times it takes over 1 gig of space on your hard disk drive.

Disable System Restore

Windows XP users can also try to reduce the evade space utilized by Windows System Restore and often add some extra gigabytes of hard disk drive space. Follow the below given steps in order to customize this feature.

1. Click Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools, and open "System Restore".

2. When System Restore window is open there will be an option and click at the "System Restore Settings".

3. In "System Restore" option there is also another option like tab which you can either check the "Turn off System Restore on all drives" making it entirely immobilize this feature, or else click at the Settings button and decline the space usage, which we would urge.

Disable hibernation

If you turn your computer off in its place using of hibernation mode you can stop this feature to free up a lot of disk space.

Users can also recover computer hard disk space by doing any or all of the below steps.

1. Click Start and then Search or Find

2. In the "File Type" text field type: *.tmp and verify the computer is looking at the C: drive or the drive that contains your operating system.

3. Search for files and delete every of the temporary files which are been found.

Carry out the same steps as number one excluding the search for *.chk and delete any of the files that are found.

Users can get back the computer hard disk drive space by following any or all of the below given steps.

1. From the MS-DOS prompt, type "del *.tmp /s" and "del *.chk /s". This command will delete any of the temporary files or the scandisk error files on the hard disk drive.

2. Delete any software programs or games you are no longer used by MS-DOS or from Windows too.