Have you ever got a message stating that “Low Disk Space” when booting up the computer? Do you know what it is used for and how to get more disk space when receiving this notification? If not, you are at the right place here.

First of all, it is necessary to know how it comes. As what it is called, the “Low Disk Space” warming is used to remind users when the disk space is going to run out, which is especially useful for main system driver to prevent the loss of important data. This warming will pop up at starting up the computer when there is less than 200 MB free available space; every four hours when less than 80MB, and every five minutes when less than 50 MB. It won’t automatically disappear until the problem is solved.

Simply, this “Slow Disk Space” warming is very useful to remind users in protecting the data, but it will become nasty when too often, reducing working efficiency and worsening computer performance. So you can follow the steps below to stop it to prevent it from popping up time to time: Go to Start-> Run -> type “Regedit” to open Registry Editor and then locate the below entry: HKEY CURRENT USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer -> check whether there is an entry named “NoLowDiskSpaceChecks” within the right-hand pane. If it is here, please go to check whether its value data is set to “1” (one) or not (set it to 1 if it isn’t). But if there is no entry named “NoLowDiskSpaceChecks” here, go to create one and set its value data to 1(one). Please first back up your registry before the modification if you are not very professional on computers to prevent a mess of the Windows registry.

After rebooting your computer, the annoying “Low Disk Space” won’t pop up again and again. But that can not help fix the problem essentially. What you need to do right now is to learn how to get more disk space for your computer with the tips in this article in order to store what you want.

To get more disk space, first you have to uninstall some useless programs for they will only waste hard disk space without any meaningful significance. To thoroughly uninstall the programs both from the folder and the registry, please do not directly delete folders from the hard disk, but follow the below steps instead: go to Start, Control Panel and then Add/Remove Programs, locate the programs to be uninstalled in the list and then click Remove to uninstall them from the computer.

Besides, please note that a cleanup of the system junk files plays very important role in getting more disk space. So please remember to simply run the built-in Disk Cleanup when trying to release more hard disk space. Besides the above two main methods, you can also use some other methods like moving some particular directories to other drives. If you want more detailed information, you can simply go here to always have a colorful computer life.

But to have a smooth computer life, please do not forget to defragment your computer periodically for when locating programs /files on the computer, some fragments will come inevitably. The more fragments on the hard disk, the slower the computer will be when running. A disk defragmentation will help to easily gather all parts of the same file to locate at a single place coherently. Hence, it will reduce the disk visiting time, speeding up the computer.

At the end, you must know that a disk defragmentation is necessary to maintain hard disks even though you have managed to get more hard disk space in order to make the computer always run at the top space. Tired of the sluggish built-in Disk Defragmenter?  Go to try Advanced Defrag. Believe me, it will help you speedily defragment the computer in a few minutes.