How to free up to 5 GB hard drive in Windows 8

One of the problems that can occur when using an Operating System is that, almost without realizing it, after installing many programs or games on the root drive, we run out of space on our hard drive . And since Windows 8 by default stores all our Windows Store purchases on drive C, that problem may occur soon.

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In these cases, the Windows default Free up space manager is not usually very helpful, which is used to free up mainly temporary files. There is a trick, yes, to be able to gain significant storage memory space in our new Operating System by sacrificing, or changing the unit, the size of the virtual memory "

There can be several cases to want to do it. For example, as has been my case, because I have a C drive with a 64 GB SSD (solid-state drive with high read speed), which is just a little bit tight to store Windows 8 after the transition from Windows 7 to the new OS. from Microsoft, considering the many programs that are stored there by default. Or for having a Surface RT with integrated Windows RT and almost half of the disk occupied by the input. Advance, yes, that the difference in size that we can release from one system to another varies significantly, also taking into account the RAM that each computer has. It is not advisable, in any case, to sacrifice all this space, as it would be affected the performance of our team, unless we change units. This is precisely what we are going to explain now.

Change virtual memory size and unit

If we are running short of space in C, where the Operating System is installed by default, and we want to save space to move it to another drive, such as D, what we should do is go to System Properties, being able to choose different ways. The easiest is to right click on the Start menu (bottom left to make it appear), and click on System Or go to the Control Panel, and from there to System and security, and finally System. Even another very easy option is to right-click on Computer, and click on Properties. Either is valid.

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In the System menu we are interested in going to the Advanced system configuration, and from there to the Advanced Options tab to modify the Performance of our equipment through its Settings. From the new window of Performance Options we must click again on the Advanced Options tab, and from there on the button Change>Virtual memoryA last window will open, leaving everything more or less like this."

How to free up space on our hard drive in Windows 8 without using the paging file

The number that the system reserves by default, as we anticipated, varies on each computer, although it is usually around 5 GB for C. If, as is our case, we want to gain extra space on the root unit, and dump it to D, or any other partition where there is more space, what we must do is select the C unit from the Virtual memory section, and select the option No paging file Or indicate a lower number of reserved space. In any case, we insist, it is not advisable to leave it at zero if we are not going to transfer it to another unit. Otherwise, we will get many warnings that our team's virtual memory is running out, and that would be completely counterproductive as our team suffers.

After all, virtual memory is used as a backup when there is little RAM left, moving data from the latter to the reserved paging space, thus freeing up more RAM to complete the tasks that we have active. Which does not mean, in any case, that it is more advisable to increase the RAM itself as it is read much faster than from a hard drive.

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If we are looking for a weighty way to free up space on our hard drive in Windows 8, beyond the classic option Free up space>"