December 2019 | |^55
Windows 10
Free up some space
FREE UP SOME
SPACE
ouhaverunoutof
diskspace”.Thereit
is, unequivocal.It
wasn’tthatlong
agothatWindows
startedpoppingup
“Youarerunningoutofdiskspace”
messages,swiftlyfollowedby“You
are running very low on disk space”.
1RPDWWHUWKHGD\KDVÀQDOO\
DUULYHG<RXUKDUGGULYHKDVÀQDOO\
run out of space and now you’ve
got to do something about it. The
question is: what?
These days, running out of disk
space should be impossible. With
terabytes of storage available to
\RXKRZGR\RXPDQDJHWRÀOOLWDOO
up? One reason might be that you
don’t actually have terabytes to start
with: perhaps you’re running on alaptopthatonlycamewith128GB
tostartwith,ora 2-in-1tablet
whose32GBis barelyenoughto
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appsordata.
Don’tpanic,though,becauseover
thecourseofthenexteightpages
we’llshowyoueverythingyouneed
to know to solve the problem. You’ll
learn to spot the early warning
signs, plus take steps to keep your
hard drive as clean as possible. We’ll
also examine ways of adding extra
storage capacity, enabling you to
move your data off your boot drive
to free up space. And if all else fails,
we’ll show you how to upgrade your
PC’s boot drive, plus migrate
everything from old to new drive.
It’s all here, so turn the page now to
solve your disk space issues.Y
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