{"id":50825,"date":"2022-05-09T21:48:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T21:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/faq\/how-do-i-free-up-space-up-on-my-hp-notebook\/"},"modified":"2022-05-09T21:48:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T21:48:17","slug":"how-do-i-free-up-space-up-on-my-hp-notebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/faq\/how-do-i-free-up-space-up-on-my-hp-notebook\/","title":{"rendered":"How do i free up space up on my hp notebook?"},"content":{"rendered":"
The first step is to get rid of the common space-hogging culprits. These include unnecessary applications and a variety of useless system files. Windows Disk Cleanup (click to enlarge). Your Recycle Bin, Temp folders, and random system files may be hogging gigabytes of potential free space.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Why is my hard drive still full after deleting files? Available disk space does not increase after deleting files. When a file is deleted, the space used on the disk is not reclaimed until the file is truly erased. The trash (recycle bin on Windows) is actually a hidden folder located in each hard drive.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Under the \u201cStorage sense\u201d section, click the \u201cFree up space now option,\u201d or the \u201cTemporary files\u201d box under \u201cLocal Disk C\u201d if you’re running the Windows 10 May 2019 update. Select the content you want to remove, such as downloads, temporary files, recycle bin, delivery optimized files, etc. Hit \u201cRemove.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The possible causes can be: Too many applications or files saved on the disk. There is not enough disk space. File system corruption on the hard drive.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
A 512 GB SSD is enough for most laptop users. 512GB offers enough speed and storage space to play games, watch videos and view multiple websites at one time. When using a SSD, your laptop will start to slow down when 75% of the hard drive is full.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Press the volume up key and the power button simultaneously for about 30 seconds or until the root menu appears. Then choose the action you want to take from the root menu, in this case \u201cWipe data\/factory reset\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
If trash bin has already been emptied, note that if you have just deleted a lot of files, it can take several hours for the saved space to be reflected in the storage available numbers. Also it can take a bit of time for the saved space to be realized in different products, (Drive, Gmail and Photos).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Uninstall unnecessary apps and programs. Clean your desktop. Get rid of monster files. Use the Disk Cleanup Tool. Discard temporary files. Deal with downloads. Save to the cloud. Maintenance is vital. How do I clean junk files from my HP laptop? To find Disk Cleanup [1], search \u201cDisk Cleanup\u201d on the Windows taskbar. If you …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepicpedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}