Like many folk these days my main PC main drive (Drive C:) is a Solid State Drive (SSD). Due to the cost of these devices it is tempting to fit a much smaller capacity than a typical mechanical hard drive (HDD), mine SSD is only 120GB. This small size means you have to be very careful about conserving disc space. For example I locate most of my non critical software on a second mechanical hard drive (Drive D:). Drive C: is reserved for the operating system and the likes of Adobe Photoshop. This means that rather sooner than later you will face the "not enough free space" problem no matter how careful you are. Which is the problem I just ran into. I have been quite strict about running the standard Windows 7 Disk Cleanup utility. I have also been careful to delete or relocating any unwanted software.
When searching for a solution I came across a very good blog post:
7 Ways to Free Up Disk Space on an SSD in Windows 7. The post suggested followin these steps:-
- Disable hibernation
- Decrease the size of the page file
- Turn off System Restore
- Perform a Disk Cleanup regularly
- Use a third party disk cleaning tool regularly
- Uninstall programs you do not use
- Disable File Content Indexing
I followed most of the instructions and managed to release 12 GB of space, that's 10%.
I missed out steps 3 - Turn Off System Restore and 5 - Use Third Party Cleaning Tool. But I will look into these options later.The two steps that seemed to make the biggest difference where steps 2 and 7.
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